CFTL-FM

For the former pirate radio station in Montreal, Quebec, see CFTL (pirate radio).

CFTL-FM, is a First Nations community radio station which operates at 100.3 MHz FM in Big Trout Lake, Ontario, Canada. ^[1] The station is owned by the Ayamowin Communications Society and is a rebroadcaster of CBC Radio One outlet CBQT-FM in Thunder Bay.

CFTL-FM

Big Trout Lake, Ontario
Broadcast area	Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation
Frequency	100.3 MHz (FM)
Ownership
Owner	Ayamowin Communications Society
History
First air date	1974
Technical information
Licensing authority	CRTC
ERP	63 watts
Transmitter coordinates	53.833°N 89.883°W / 53.833; -89.883

CFTL-FM was originally established in 1974 ^[2] and was the first community radio station in Ontario, established locally with the support of the Wawatay Native Communications Society; its popularity led communities, first at Muskrat Dam then elsewhere, to ask for similar assistance.^[3]: 108 By its 1992 CRTC licence renewal, it was authorized to broadcast 59 hours of local programming in Oji-Cree, 10 hours of Wawatay programs, and 99 hours of output from the CBC Stereo FM network.^[4] In later years, it switched from CBC Stereo to CBC Radio One through CBQT-FM in Thunder Bay.