CIME-FM

{{short description|Radio station in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

{{Infobox radio station

| name = CIME-FM

| logo = CIME 103.9 101.3 logo.svg

| city = Saint-Jérôme, Quebec

| area = Laurentides
Montreal (northern suburbs & city's north end)

| branding = CIME 103,9 et 101,3

| airdate = March 25, 1977

| frequency = 103.9 MHz (FM)

| repeater = CIME-FM-1 102.9 Val-Morin
CIME-FM-2 101.3 Mont-Tremblant

| format = hot adult contemporary (French)

| haat = {{convert|180.2|meters}}

| erp = 11,700 watts (average)
39,300 watts (peak)

| class = C1

| callsign_meaning = CIME (French word for mountain peak)

| owner = Cogeco

| licensee = Diffusion Métromédia CMR Inc.

| affiliations = Rythme FM (2012–2016)

| webcast = [https://laurentides.cime.fm/musique/joue-recemment Listen Live]

| website = [https://laurentides.cime.fm/ laurentides.cime.fm]

}}

CIME-FM is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, about {{convert|40|km|mi|}} north of Montreal.

Owned and operated by Cogeco, it broadcasts on 103.9 MHz using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 11,700 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 39,300 watts (class C1).

The station has an adult top 40 format under the CIME branding.

The station also operates two rebroadcasters : a low-power one (CIME-FM-1) in Val-Morin, on 102.9 using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 4 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 14 watts (class LP), and a stronger one (CIME-FM-2) in Mont-Tremblant, on 101.3 with an effective radiated power of 800 watts (class B) using an omnidirectional antenna.

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CIME-FM opened on March 25, 1977, and originally had a middle of the road format, which gradually evolved over time to a more traditional hot adult contemporary format and currently it is an adult contemporary station.

CIME-FM was originally located in Sainte-Adèle, about 70 kilometres north of Montreal, and had a 50,000 watts omnidirectional signal on 99.5 MHz. The station moved to Saint-Jérôme in mid-1998, at the same time that it moved to 103.9 and inaugurated its 101.3 relay (the smaller 102.9 one was operational since the beginning). These changes in frequencies were a result of a deal to allow the 99.5 to be used in Montreal for the new CJPX-FM. As a result, CIME-FM can only be heard now in parts of Montreal itself, but has a better coverage in their targeted area (the Laurentides region).

The station is especially famous or infamous (depending on the point of view) for its now-discontinued practices of airing subliminal messages intended to induce relaxation at night [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1985/DB85-597.htm Decision CRTC 85-597] and using a system of audio tones as a mosquito repellent.[https://web.archive.org/web/20060221204749/http://www.odxa.on.ca/archives/timelinebc.html Canadian Broadcast Timeline by Colin Miller, Ontario DX Association]

On December 17, 2010, the CRTC approved the sale of most of Corus Entertainment's radio stations in Quebec, including CIME-FM, to Cogeco.[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2010/2010-942.htm Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2010-942] The sale closed February 1, 2011, and by August 2011, the station adopted the tri-oval Rythme FM logo on CIME-FM; however the CIME branding and hot adult contemporary stayed because of the adult contemporary format already heard on nearby flagship and sister station CFGL-FM Laval. As a result, programming is different, save for majority of nighttime programming, which largely simulcasts CFGL-FM.

On August 22, 2016, the station left the Rythme network and adopted a new slogan: "La Couleur Musicale des Laurentides".