CBAF-FM-15

{{short description|Ici Radio-Canada Premiere station in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island}}

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{{Infobox radio station

| name = CBAF-FM-15

| city = Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

| area = Prince Edward Island

| logo = ICI Radio-Canada Première.svg

| branding = Ici Radio-Canada Première

| airdate = Late 1970s (as a CBAF repeater)
1994 (as a separate station)

| frequency = 88.1 MHz (FM)

| format = News/Talk

| erp = 94.2 kW (peak)

| class = C

| callsign_meaning = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Atlantic French

| owner = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

| website = [http://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere Ici Radio-Canada Première]

}}

CBAF-FM-15 is a French language Canadian radio station located in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

Owned and operated by the (government-owned) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Radio-Canada), it broadcasts on 88.1 MHz using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 33,500 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 94,200 watts (class C).

The station has an ad-free news/talk format and is part of the Ici Radio-Canada Première network, which operates across Canada. Like all Première stations, but unlike most FM stations, it broadcasts in mono.

The station signed on sometime in the late 1970s as a rebroadcaster of CBAF in Moncton. On October 3, 1983, a first radio show was produced for the Island from Moncton (La marée de l'Île, hosted by Maurice Arsenault). In 1994, it officially became a separate station, though it still has rebroadcaster-like calls.http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1994/DB94-339.HTM ; compare with

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1993/PB93-136.htm where CBAF-FM-15 was considered by the CRTC as a rebroadcaster.

The station has its own morning drive show, produced in Charlottetown since September 1, 1996. Denis Duchesne is the host of Le Réveil, Monday to Friday from 6 to 9 a.m.[http://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/le-reveil-ile-du-prince-edouard Le Réveil - Île-du-Prince-Édouard] The rest of its programming is a simulcast of CBAF-FM-5 from Halifax, Nova Scotia.[http://ici.radio-canada.ca/Premiere/Console?meParams={%22idMedia%22:%22cbafc%22,%22time%22:0}&extract=1 Audiofil CBAFC]

On November 21, 2005, the CRTC granted CBAF-FM-15 to operate rebroadcasters in St. Edward and Urbainville to serve areas on the fringe of the primary transmitter's signal.

CBAF-FM-15 was originally identified as CBAF-29-FM; the call sign change took effect on September 1, 1989,[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1989/DB89-561.HTM Decision CRTC 89-561] as the old 1300 kHz AM signal of CBAF was shut down.[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1990/DB90-206.HTM Decision CRTC 90-206]