{{Short description|CBC Radio One station in Victoria, British Columbia}} {{Use Canadian English|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox radio station | logo = Cbc radio one halifax.svg | format = [[All-news radio|News]]/[[Talk radio|Talk]] | owner = [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] | name = CBCV-FM | airdate = {{Start date|1998|09|28}} | frequency = {{Frequency|90.5|[[MHz]]}} | city = [[Victoria, British Columbia]] | country = CA | area = [[Vancouver Island]] | erp = {{ubl|3,000 watts (average)|6,300 watts (peak horiz.)}} | haat = {{convert|494|m|ft}} | coordinates = {{coord|48|35|40|N|123|32|42|W|type:landmark_region:CA-BC|name=CBCV-FM 90.5 Victoria}} | network = [[CBC Radio One]] | class = C1 | webcast = {{listenlive|http://www.cbc.ca/listen/live/radio1/victoria}} | website = {{url|http://cbc.ca/bc}} | callsign_meaning = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Victoria | licensing_authority = [[CRTC]] }} '''CBCV-FM''' (90.5 [[FM broadcasting|FM]]) is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts the programming of the [[CBC Radio One]] network in [[Victoria, British Columbia|Victoria]], British Columbia, and throughout [[Vancouver Island]], the [[Southern Gulf Islands]], and the [[Sunshine Coast (British Columbia)|Sunshine Coast]]. It also reaches out to parts of [[Washington (state)|Washington]] north of [[Everett, Washington|Everett]], but is harder to listen to because of [[KSER]] on 90.7.
It was the most listened to radio station in the Victoria Market in the Fall 2018 Numeris Diary Survey.<ref>[http://assets.numeris.ca/Downloads/2018_Fall_Radio_DI_TopLineReports.pdf Fall 2018 Top Line Reports]numeris.ca {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222131730/http://assets.numeris.ca/Downloads/2018_Fall_Radio_DI_TopLineReports.pdf |date=2018-12-22 }}</ref>
==History== The station was licensed by the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission|CRTC]] in 1997,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1997/DB97-650.HTM|title=Decision CRTC 97-650|date=November 20, 1997|publisher=CRTC|accessdate=October 29, 2017}}</ref> and was launched on September 28, 1998. At the same time, the station was licensed to add a [[rebroadcaster]] at [[Metchosin]], and took over 13 existing rebroadcasters of [[Vancouver]]'s [[CBU (AM)|CBU]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1997%5CDB97-651.htm|title=Decision CRTC 97-651|date=November 20, 1997|publisher=CRTC|accessdate=October 29, 2017}}</ref>
Prior to the station's launch, Victoria was the only provincial capital in Canada without its own CBC Radio production centre.
As of January 25, 2013, the station shares its studio facilities with independent television station [[CHEK-DT]].
==Local programming== The station's [[CBC Radio One local programming|local programs]] are ''On the Island'' (hosted by Gregor Craigie) in the morning and ''[[All Points West (radio program)|All Points West]]'' (hosted by Jason D'Souza, previously hosted by Robyn Burns) in the afternoon. Both programs broadcast exclusively on CBCV and its rebroadcasters on Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast.
==Transmitters== {{RadioRebroadcasters | rec = true | notes = true | callsign = CBCV-FM | call1 = CBRY-FM | freq1 = 105.1 FM | watts1 = 360 | class1 = A | city1 = [[Alert Bay]] | crtc1 = | notes1 = {{coord|50|34|47|N|126|55|05|W|region:CA-BC|name=CBRY-FM 105.1 Alert Bay}} | call2 = CBYT-FM | freq2 = 104.5 FM | watts2 = 88 | class2 = A1 | city2 = [[Campbell River, British Columbia|Campbell River]] | crtc2 = | notes2 = {{coord|50|3|14|N|125|19|35|W|region:CA-BC|name=CBYT-FM 104.5 Campbell River}} | call3 = CBKO | freq3 = 540 AM | watts3 = 40 | class3 = LP | city3 = [[Coal Harbour (Vancouver Island)|Coal Harbour]] | crtc3 = | notes3 = {{coord|50|36|4|N|127|34|23|W|region:CA-BC|name=CBKO 540 Coal Harbour}} | call4 = CBKJ | freq4 = 860 AM | watts4 = 40 | class4 = LP | city4 = [[Gold River, British Columbia|Gold River]] | crtc4 = | notes4 = {{coord|49|46|24|N|126|3|13|W|region:CA-BC|name=CBKJ 860 Gold River}} | call5 = CBCV-FM-1 | freq5 = 99.5 FM | watts5 = 64 | class5 = A | city5 = [[Metchosin]]-[[Sooke]] | crtc5 = | notes5 = {{coord|48|24|8|N|123|34|25|W|region:CA-BC|name=CBCV-FM-1 99.5 Metchosin/Sooke}} | call6 = CBTQ-FM | freq6 = 98.1 FM | watts6 = 348 | class6 = A | city6 = [[Port Alberni]] | crtc6 = | notes6 = {{coord|49|14|28|N|124|47|8|W|region:CA-BC|name=CBTQ-FM 98.1 Port Alberni}} | call7 = CBCV-FM-2 | freq7 = 92.3 FM | watts7 = 50 | class7 = LP | city7 = [[Port Alice]] | crtc7 = | notes7 = {{coord|50|25|39|N|127|28|42|W|region:CA-BC|name=CBUX 1170 Port Alice}} | call8 = CBUY-FM | freq8 = 95.5 FM | watts8 = 182 | class8 = A1 | city8 = [[Port Hardy]] | crtc8 = | notes8 = {{coord|50|42|36|N|127|26|30|W|region:CA-BC|name=CBUY-FM 95.5 Port Hardy}} | call9 = CBUW-FM | freq9 = 92.5 FM | watts9 = 3,720 | class9 = B | city9 = [[Powell River, British Columbia|Powell River]] | crtc9 = | notes9 = {{coord|49|41|54|N|124|26|5|W|region:CA-BC|name=CBUW-FM 92.5 Powell River}}<br>Also serves the [[Oceanside, British Columbia|Oceanside]] and [[Comox Valley]] areas | call10 = CBKU | freq10 = 630 AM | watts10 = 40 | class10 = LP | city10 = [[Sayward]] | crtc10 = | notes10 = {{coord|50|23|17|N|125|57|43|W|region:CA-BC|name=CBKU 630 Sayward}} | call11 = CBTT-FM | freq11 = 90.5 FM | watts11 = 46 | class11 = LP | city11 = [[Tahsis]] | crtc11 = | notes11 = {{coord|49|55|36|N|126|39|6|W|region:CA-BC|name=CBTT-FM 90.5 Tahsis}}<br>[[list of defunct CBC radio transmitters in Canada|Moved]] from 1240 AM<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2009/2009-710.htm|title=Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2009-710|date=November 20, 2009|publisher=CRTC|accessdate=October 29, 2017}}</ref> | call12 = CBXZ-FM | freq12 = 91.5 FM | watts12 = 510 | class12 = A | city12 = [[Tofino]] | crtc12 = | notes12 = {{coord|49|8|56|N|125|54|0|W|region:CA-BC|name=CBXZ-FM 91.5 Tofino}} | call13 = CBXZ-FM-1 | freq13 = 92.7 FM | watts13 = 50 | class13 = LP | city13 = [[Ucluelet]] | crtc13 = | notes13 = {{coord|48|56|17|N|125|32|48|W|region:CA-BC|name=CBXZ-FM-1 92.7 Ucluelet}}<br>Moved from 540 AM | call14 = CBTW-FM | freq14 = 92.7 FM | watts14 = 300 | class14 = B | city14 = [[Woss|Woss Camp]] | crtc14 = | notes14 = {{coord|50|10|9|N|126|34|13|W|region:CA-BC|name=CBTW-FM 92.7 Woss Camp}} }} The only major city on Vancouver Island without its own CBC Radio transmitter is [[Nanaimo]]. CBCV's signal on 90.5 MHz from Victoria only reaches as far north as [[Ladysmith, British Columbia|Ladysmith]], and its signal on 92.5 MHz from Powell River as received in the Nanaimo area interferes with [[KQMV]] from [[Seattle]]. Consequently, the only CBC Radio One signals that can be reliably received in the Nanaimo area are from CBU Vancouver, which air weekday morning and afternoon local programs from Vancouver instead of Victoria. The CBC applied to the CRTC to add a rebroadcaster of CBCV at Nanaimo in 2007, contemporaneous with an application to convert the Vancouver station to FM. As few FM frequencies remain available in the Vancouver-Victoria market, however, the applications were denied. CBU was permitted to add a nested low-power rebroadcaster in the urban core of Vancouver, but was required to maintain the AM signal to serve outlying areas, including Nanaimo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://liveweb.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2008/db2008-117.htm|title=Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2008-117|date=May 30, 2008|publisher=CRTC|accessdate=October 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107012156/http://liveweb.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2008/db2008-117.htm|archive-date=November 7, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[HD Radio]] receivers in Nanaimo can however receive Victoria's local programming over the HD3 channel of Vancouver's 88.1 MHz signal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nwbroadcasters.com/digitalradio.html|title = Northwest Broadcasters - Digital Radio}}</ref>
On October 20, 2015 the CRTC approved the CBC's application to operate a low-power FM rebroadcasting transmitter in Ucluelet, which will operate at 92.7 MHz with an effective radiated power of 50 watts. The new FM transmitter replaced the old AM transmitter, CBXQ.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2015/2015-465.htm|title=Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2015-465|date=October 20, 2015|publisher=CRTC|accessdate=October 29, 2017}}</ref>
On March 9, 2016, the CBC received CRTC approval to change the technical parameters of CBRY by changing the transmitter's class from A1 to A, by increasing the effective radiated power from 77 to 360 watts and by increasing the effective height of antenna above average terrain from -50.5 to -41.5 metres.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2016/2016-93.htm|title=Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2016-93|date=March 9, 2016|publisher=CRTC|accessdate=October 29, 2017}}</ref>
On December 22, 2016, the CBC applied to convert '''CBUX''' 1170 to 92.3 MHz with the proposed callsign '''CBCV-FM-2'''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://services.crtc.gc.ca/pub/DocWebBroker/OpenDocument.aspx?AppNo=201612937|title=2016-1293-7|publisher=CRTC|accessdate=October 29, 2017}}</ref> The CRTC approved the CBC's application on March 17, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2017/2017-77.htm|title=Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2017-77|date=March 17, 2017|publisher=CRTC|accessdate=October 29, 2017}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{GeoGroup}} *[http://www.cbc.ca/bc/ CBC British Columbia] * [https://broadcasting-history.ca/radio/radio-stations/british-columbia/british-columbia-vancouver-island/CBCV-FM CBCV-FM] at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the [[Canadian Communications Foundation]] *{{RecnetCanada|CBCV-FM}}
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