CBAC 99.9 FM - Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories
N 69° 27.075 W 133° 02.216
8W E 576888 N 7705913
CFCT changed to CBAC in 2005, but the sign on the building hasn't been changed. CBAC serves the remote Arctic hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk and carries the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation programs.
Waymark Code: WMT26Z
Location: Northwest Territories, Canada
Date Posted: 09/12/2016
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CFCT changed to CBAC in 2005, but the sign on the building hasn't been changed. CBAC serves the remote Arctic hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk and carries the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation programs.
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1971
Tuktoyaktuk Broadcasting Society opened CFCT-AM at 6:45 p.m. MST, January 20. The station was established with the assistance of Toronto's CHUM Limited. CHUM assisted the 1,000 watt station with the purchase and installation of the transmitter, tower and other equipment. CHUM also provided technical help, news and program material, and comitted [sic] to subsidize CFCT on an annual basis.
1972
CFCT was airing about four hours of local programming each day. Twelve hours came from the CBC Northern Service via microwave from Inuvik.
1981
CFCT had been in financial trouble for some time. The non-profit station had cut its staff to two and considered an offer of free programming from Radio Moscow! Local oil companies found out about the Radio Moscow offer and came to the aid of the station. Dome Petroleum Ltd. provided a temporary subsidy and gave CFCT some new studio equipment.
1992
CFCT was listed as operating on 600 kHz with a power of 1,000 watts.
2005
Tuktoyaktuk Broadcasting Society's licence expired. In order to maintain CBC's Radio One service to Tuktoyaktuk, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. applied to operate a transmitter at Tuktoyaktuk to rebroadcast CHAK Inuvik. CFCT would now broadcast on 1150 kHz with a transmitter power of 40 watts. The non-directional vertically polarized inverted L antenna would be co-located with the CBC's CBEPT-TV. The call sign changed to CBAC.
According to the CRTC (http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2014/2014-468.htm), on September 11, 2014, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to convert CBAC from 1150 kHz to 99.9 MHz.