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Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2025-261

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Reference: Part 1 application posted on 24 July 2025

Gatineau, 8 October 2025

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Sherbrooke and Victoriaville, Quebec

Public record: 2025-0225-2

CBF-FM-10 Sherbrooke and its transmitter CBF‑FM‑12 Victoriaville – Technical amendments

  1. The Commission has the authority, pursuant to subsection 9(1) of the Broadcasting Act (the Act), to issue licences for the carrying on of broadcasting undertakings and to amend those licences.
  2. Consistent with this authority, the Commission approves the application by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to amend the technical parameters of CBF-FM-12 Victoriaville, Quebec, a rebroadcasting transmitter of the French-language radio programming undertaking CBF-FM-10 Sherbrooke, Quebec, which broadcasts the programming of the national, French-language network service ICI Première. Specifically, the CBC proposed to decrease the effective radiated power (ERP) from 130 to 122 watts, to replace the existing non-directional antenna with a new non-directional antenna, to increase the effective height of the antenna above average terrain (EHAAT) from 100.0 to 122.6 metres, to amend the coordinates of the transmitter, and to relocate the transmitter antenna. All other technical parameters will remain unchanged.
  3. The Commission did not receive any interventions in regard to this application.
  4. When a licensee files an application for technical amendments, the Commission requires the licensee to present compelling technical or economic evidence justifying the requested amendments. In this case, the CBC indicated that the proposed amendments are necessary because the CBF-FM-12’s antenna is timeworn, and it is no longer possible to continue using the structure that currently houses the antenna. The CBC added that, for these reasons, it must relocate the antenna to a tower owned by Groupe CLR, located approximately 35 metres from the antenna’s current site. The Commission is satisfied that the licensee has demonstrated a technical need for the requested technical amendments.
  5. Pursuant to subsection 22(1) of the Act, this authority will only be effective when the Department of Industry (also known as Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) notifies the Commission that its technical requirements have been met and that a broadcasting certificate will be issued.
  6. The licensee must implement the technical amendments by no later than 8 October 2027. To request an extension, the licensee must submit a written request to the Commission at least 60 days before that date, using Form 300, which is available on the Commission’s website.
  7. As set out in section 16 of the Radio Regulations, 1986 (the Regulations), licensees have obligations relating to the broadcast of emergency alert messages received from the National Alert Aggregation and Dissemination System. The implementation of the technical amendments approved in this decision could result in changes to CBF-FM-12’s authorized contours. The Commission reminds the licensee that continued compliance with section 16 of the Regulations may require that any alert broadcast decoders (e.g., ENDEC) used for the purposes of broadcasting emergency alert messages on CBF-FM-10, or on any rebroadcasting transmitters that may appear on the broadcasting licence for that station, be reprogrammed to properly account for the new authorized contours.
  8. This decision is to be appended to the licence.

Secretary General

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