CKOB-FM

CKOB-FM is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Owned and operated by Cogeco, it broadcasts on 106.9 MHz using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 60,000 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 100,000 watts. The station moved to the FM band on August 20, 2007; it was previously heard on the AM band, on 550 kHz, with a daytime power of 10,000 watts and a nighttime power of 5,000 watts as a class B station, using a directional antenna with slightly different daytime and nighttime directional patterns in order to protect various other stations on that frequency. The station identifies itself as "106,9 FM" and is one of the few full-time FM talk stations in North America to broadcast in stereo. CKOB-FM went on the air as CHLN, an AM station on October 17, 1937, and was originally on 1420 kHz; it moved to 1450 kHz in 1941, and moved again to 550 kHz in 1945. CHLN had one rebroadcaster, namely CKSM in Shawinigan.