CHFO (AM)

CHFO was a French language Canadian radio station transmitting on 1350 kHz (AM) in Gatineau, Quebec. The station had a community radio format.

CHFO

Defunct
Gatineau, Quebec
Frequency	1350 kHz (AM)
Programming
Format	Community radio (French)
Ownership
Owner	Radio Communautaire Francophone et Francophile de l’Outaouais
History
First air date	2018
Last air date	2019
Technical information
Class	C
Power	1 kW (daytime) 0.18 kW (nighttime)

History

On November 29, 2017, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved an application by Radio Communautaire Francophone et Francophile de l’Outaouais to operate a new French-language community radio station in Gatineau, Quebec. The new station would operate on the AM band on 1350 kHz with a daytime transmitter power of 1,000 watts and a nighttime transmitter power of 180 watts. ^[1]

In February 2018, the station began on-air testing on 1350 kHz. ^[2] In 2019, the station left the air permanently. ^[3]

Notes

AM 1350 in Gatineau was previously used by CIRA-5, a rebroadcaster of CIRA-FM in Montreal from 2012 until it left the air in 2015.