For the earlier long running radio station on the same frequency, see CINW

For sister radio station in English language on 600 AM, see CFQR (AM)

CFNV is a French language AM radio station, owned by a numbered company, 7954689 Canada Inc. operating in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is equally controlled by 4158695 Canada Inc. (Paul Tietolman) and 9225-8318 Québec Inc. (Nicolas Tétrault) and 6556027 Canada Inc. (Rajiv Pancholy), collectively known as TTP Media. It began test broadcasting in 2016 under the callsign CFNV, with a with full-time power of 50,000 watts and a Francophone news/talk format.

History

When the long-running CINW station owned and operated by Corus Quebec as a clear channel (class A) station ceased operations at 7:00 p.m. ET on January 29, 2010.^[1][2] announcing its final call sign as an English language AM radio station located in Montreal, Quebec, along the French-language sister station CINF, the frequency remained vacant.

Six years later, in 2016, the 940 AM frequency resurfaced when a new station, under the callsign CFNV, launched with plans for a Francophone news/talk format.) The new station is owned by TTP group.

Licencing

With the closure of the Montreal station CINW, on July 29, 2011, the CRTC began taking other applications for the vacant 940 frequency.^[3] On September 7, 2011, the CRTC announced the applicants for the 940 frequency; competing against earlier owner Cogeco was Paul Tietolman, the son of broadcaster Jack Tietolman, who planned to use 940 for an anglophone news-talk formatted station.^[4]

On November 21, 2011, Tietolman was awarded the frequency, but this was for a francophone news-talk instead, a format that he had originally applied for on 690.^[5] A year later, he and his two partners were granted a licence for English talk to be broadcast on 600 kHz in the spring of 2013.^{[citation needed]} However, by that point, none of the stations that the TTP group applied for had signed on.

On September 19, 2014, the CRTC gave the TTP group another year to commence broadcasting on 940 in French and 600 in English. This extension was the second and, originally, final one allowed for 940, giving the station until November 21, 2015 to commence broadcasting or face cancellation of its licence,^[6] however, it was renewed for an additional year on October 30, 2015, with November 21, 2016 now set as the cut-off date.^[7]

On October 26, 2016, a test tone began being broadcast on AM 940. Call letters were also announced on that date as CFNV.^[8] The station officially began on-air testing on November 16, 2016 with music and a recorded announcement promoting the launch of the new station with a phone number to report signal interference.^[9][10]