1960
Feb.
22: CKNW 980 increases
its power to 10,000 watts
day/5,000 watts night.
March 7: KARI
550 signs on the air from
Blaine, Washington with a
religious format. The BBG did not allow religious radio stations
until 1993, except the 2 in Newfoundland that were religious stations
before Newfoundland joined Confederation in 1949.
March 10: CFUN 1410 switches to a "Top 40"
format.
Aug. 10: CHQM
FM 103.5 signs on the
air with an easy listening
format. It is western Canada’s first full power FM station.
It started broadcasting in STEREO on Nov. 4, 1961.
CHQM
FM station history.
Wikipedia history.
CJAV
1240
Pt. Alberni increases its
daytime power from 250 to 1000 watts. CJAV
station history.
Oct. 31 at 4:45 pm: CHAN
TV CHANNEL 8 VANCOUVER signs on as Vancouver’s
first independent TV station. Within 2 years it would move from
it’s small studios on Seymour Street in downtown Vancouver to Lake City
in Burnaby. In a year it would become a member of the brand new
CTV
TELEVISION NETWORK. In
1968, the very popular
“News Hour” started from 6-7 pm nightly. Over the next 17 years
as it built over 100 rebroadcast transmitters throughout the province,
it became known as BCTV. CHAN
TV history.
Wikipedia history.
1961
CJOR 600 increases its power to 10,000 watts.
1962
June
28: CBUT
signs on its first
rebroadcast transmitter at Courtenay on channel 9. A special
welcome program was telecast at 7 pm. It is known as CBUT-1.
Aug. 20:
CFVR 1240 signed on as
Abbottsford’s first radio station mainly as a
rebroadcaster of CHWK Chilliwack.
Power was 250 watts.
CFVR started out with its own morning show and the rest of
the day's programming was from Chilliwack. For more information click here.
1963
Sept. 10: CFWB 1490 Campbell River signs on
the air with 250 watts. CFWB station history.
March 1: CHQM
introduces a non-stop background music service called "Q Music".
It is operated on a sub-carrier of CHQM
FM. It became the first such service in Canada. It was
heard in supermarkets, apartments, hotels, offices and elevators where
it became known as "elevator music."
Cablevision companies started wiring the Lower Mainland for cable
TV. The Lower Mainland was divided up into 8 different cable
companies. Vancouver, Richmond and South Burnaby were served by
Vancouver Cablevision. Western Cablevision served New
Westminster, Surrey and Langley. It took over 10 years to lay
cable throughout the area. Its attraction was quality reception
of American stations. Here is the early cable TV line-up:
The listings in “Italics” are
for Western Cablevision if different from
Vancouver Cablevision.
Cable To receive
2 CBU
FM Vancouver
3
CBUT (2)
Vancouver (CBC)
4 KOMO
(4)
Seattle (ABC)
5 KING
(5)
Seattle (NBC)
6 CHEK
(6)
Victoria (CBC/CTV)
7 KIRO
(7)
Seattle (CBS)
8 CKLG
FM Vancouver
(starting in 1965)
CHAN
(8) Vancouver (CTV)
9 24 hour Community Announcements
10 Community Announcements
11 CHAN
(8) Vancouver (CTV)
KTNT
(11) Tacoma Ind.
12 CHQM
FM Vancouver
13
KVOS (12) Bellingham (CBS)
1964
Aug.
22: The Beatles concert (all 29 minutes of it) was broadcast live
on CKNW
and CFUN.
The popularity of the Beatles and the other
artists that were part of the ”British Invasion” helped revive a
sagging “Top 40” format. CKLG images from 1967 & 1968: 
CKLG 730
would drop its easy listening
to become Vancouver’s most popular Top 40 station over the next 16
years. CFUN would constantly rival CKLG in the ratings race and
DJs would move back and forth between the 2 stations. The decline
of the Top 40 format and the increasing popularity of FM Stereo would
end this ratings race in the early 1980s.
CFAX 810 moves to AM 1070.
CJVI
900 Victoria
increases its power to 10,000 watts. 
Oct. 1: CKAY
1500 Duncan signs on the air
with 1000 watts of power
day/night. CKAY
station history.
Oct. 15:
CKLG
FM 99.3 signs
on in Vancouver
with easy listening,
orchestra concerts and movie and Broadway
soundtrack recordings. Power
was 100,000 watts. CKLG
FM (1964-79)/C-FOX history.
Wikipedia
history.
Nov. 8: CBU
FM 105.7 begins daily
regular programming separate from CBU
AM. It’s programming consists of mainly recorded classical music
and BBC programs. CBU
FM station history.
1965 March
13: CHQM FM 103.5 increases
its power from
20,000 to 100,000 watts and moves its transmitter from Grouse Mountain
to Mt. Seymour.
March 20 6 pm: CKDA FM becomes
CFMS 98.5
and starts broadcasting
independently from CKDA. Its broadcast day is noon-midnight 7
days a week.
March 26: CKNW 980 increases its power to
50,000 watts.
1966
May 13: CBUT-2 launches in
Chilliwack on channel 3. Its transmitter is at Lookout
Ridge. Power 600 watts/video, 300 watts/audio.
Sept.
1: CBC
and CTV
start
broadcasting in colour. 
1967
KCTS 9 (PBS) Seattle started
being carried on channel 9 on cable
from 4
pm-approx. 11 pm (channel 9’s full broadcast day) with the community
announcements (see 1963). KCTS’ schedule would expand to over 15
hours/day in 1971. KCTS started broadcasting educational
programming in Seattle in 1954.
March 1: CHQB 1280 Powell
River signedon
the air owned by Sunshine Coast
Broadcasting Company.
CHQB
station history.
CFAX
1070 Victoria increased its
power to
10,000 watts.
Sept. 18: CFUN
1410 drops it’s Top 40
format for an easy listening
format called the “Sound of Music”. It's last weekly #1
song is "The Letter" by the
Box Tops. In 2 years it
would change it’s call letters to CKVN (VN: Vancouver News) and
become Vancouver’s first all news radio station. It would
also offer talk shows, a brief stint as a big band format and after all
these experiments with different formats failed, returned to Top 40 in
March 1970, with Terry
David Mulligan,
Fred
Latremouille, and JB Shayne.
FM AIRCHECK: At this point in time, FM Radio was in it’s early
years and broadcasters saw FM as a cheap way of bringing continuous
music usually as an automated radio station. FM radio stations
that could be received in Vancouver at this time were: KVGM 92.9
Bellingham, CFMS
98.5 Victoria, CKLG
FM
99.3 Vancouver, CHQM
FM 103.5
Vancouver, KERI
FM 104.3 Bellingham and
CBU
FM 105.7 Vancouver. All
these radio stations offered easy listening music with 10- 24
hours/week of jazz and 10-24 hours/week of classical music. 
NEW Feb. 26:
Oct. 7 11:15 pm: The Variety Club launched its first telethon on CHAN
TV Ch. 8 & CHEK TV Ch. 6. The program was all live from the
Queen Elizabeth Playhouse.
Dec. 1 5 pm:
CBUF FM 97.7 Power: 100,000
watts. CBUF
FM station history.
Wikipedia
history.
1969
July 1: C-FUN 1410
changes its call letters to
CKVN. VN=Voice of News. C-FUN would gets its call
letters back Sept. 30, 1973.