While wandering through the Upper Midwest.

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 2/21/2012 11:05 AM, Scott Fybush wrote:

> The CBC has taken a different approach to AM in the Canadian west. It 
> recognizes that the huge signals from CBW, CBR, CBX and CBK 
> effectively cover enormous swaths of emptiness that would be 
> economically impossible to replicate with FM transmitters. So it's 
> leaving those signals (and CBU Vancouver, too) on AM, but it has put 
> "nested" lower-power FM relays on the air to provide FM service to the 
> core of each urban market. In Winnipeg, it's CBW-1-FM, running 2800 
> watts on 89.3 from a rooftop downtown.

Is there some reason why it isn't CBW-FM instead of CBW-1-FM?

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