1970
March: CKVN 1410 returns to a Top 40 format.
CFMI logos
from 1970,
1978, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1994 & 2004.
March
22:
CFMI
FM 101.1 signs on the air with an
automated rock/country hybrid, "Canadiana" vignettes and international
music on Sundays.
From 1974-81 CFMI would play more vocals and progress to an adult
contemporary then to a classic rock format.
CFMI
history.
Wikipedia history.
Sept. 10: BCTV
expands
it’s signal to Kamloops and the Okanagan with a
30 minute “Salute to Kamloops” at 12:45 pm and a 30 minute “Salute to
the Okanagan” (includes Vernon, Kelowna, Penticton) at 5:30 pm before
the News Hour at 6 pm.
Oct. 9: The
Vancouver
Canucks make their NHL
debut at the Pacific Coliseum against
the Los Angeles Kings. CBC
TV coverage included play-by-play by
Jim
Robson with the assistance of
Ted
Reynolds,
Bill Good, Jr.,
Babe
Pratt and Jack Dennett. Play-by-play on CKNW was by Danny
Gallivan with Al Davidson doing
colour.
1971
CKDA
1220 Victoria increases its power to 50,000 watts.
Nov. 8: CKIQ 1150 signs on
the air in Kelowna. The station was owned by Bob Hall and Walter Gray.
1972
March: KVGM 92.9 Bellingham an easy-listening music station increases
it’s power and becomes KISM
92.9 Bellingham
playing solid gold music.
At this time solid gold music was popular rock music that had been off
the charts for at least 6 months.
May 8: CKGO 1490
Hope goes on the air with 250
watts. It broadcasts two hours
a
day of local programming and the rest from CHWK Chilliwack.
June 18: CJVB
1470 goes on the air as
Western Canada’s first
multilingual radio station. Unlike today the format included at
least 24 different languages with at least 37 hrs/wk in English. CJVB
station history.
Wikipedia history.
In November:
CJVI 900 begins a country music format.
1973
March 7 3 pm: CKWX
1130 drops its adult
contemporary music and becomes
a country music station. The talk shows between 8:30 am and 3 pm
weekdays would continue for another 2 years.
Sept. 30: CKVN 1410 gets it’s old call letters back and becomes
C-FUN
again. Once the switch was made
C-FUN broadcast a special
2-hour retrospective look at Vancouver’s oldest radio station.
Dec. 7:
CHPQ 1370 Parksville signed on. CHPQ
station history.
CAMO (short for Camosun College)
began closed-circuit broadcasting at
Camosun College, Victoria. CKMO
900 station history.
Wikipedia history.
1974
CKLG
730 increases its power to 50,000 watts.
KUGS
FM 89.3
Bellingham begins broadcasting
with 10 watts from the University
of
Western Washington.
1975
April 15: After 3 months of trial broadcasts,
CFRO FM 102.7 VANCOUVER
CO OP RADIO signs on at 3 pm. CFRO broadcasts for 6
hours/day. By the fall it increases it’s schedule of community
based programming to Mon-Thu. 4 pm-midnight; Fri. 4 pm-2 am; Sat. 9
am-2 am Sun. 9 am-1 am. By the fall of 1981 it was on the air
from 9 am-2 or 3 am every day and by the fall of 1985 from 7 am-3 am
and all night Friday and Saturday nights as it is today. It still
broadcasts in mono and is heard throughout B.C. on cable. CFRO
station history.
Wikipedia history.
CITR
goes cable through
Vancouver first at 89.5, then 95.9, then
100.0 and now at 101.9.
June: CJJC 850 Langley moves to AM 800 and increased its power to10,000 watts
still broadcasting
country music. Until it’s sign off in
1992, the station was always having reception problems at this
frequency from KGMI 790 Bellingham.
Nov. 3: CBC
RADIO launches it’s STEREO NETWORK
coast-to-coast with a
special evening broadcast at 6:30 pm.
CBU FM 105.7 has operated
in Vancouver since 1947. From 1965 it has received programming on a 2
week delay basis from the CBC FM broadcast dates in Montreal, Ottawa
and Toronto.
Nov. 8: KLYN
FM 106.5 Lynden increases
its power to 100,000 watts so
it can be heard
throughout the Lower Mainland. Its signal is so strong it can be
heard north to Courtenay, Whistler and into the Fraser Canyon.
Its format is an easy listening format with ethnic programs from 7:30
pm-midnight M-F and Saturdays from 6 pm-midnight. Christian music
programs were heard on Sundays. It was on the air M-Sat. 6:30
am-midnight and Sundays 8 am-midnight.
1976
Sept. 5: CKVU UHF 21 CABLE 13 signs on at 4 pm with the movie “Friendly
Persuasion” followed by “Monty
Python’s Flying Circus.” Its
flagship program was the “Vancouver Show” which aired 7 nights a week
from 7-9 pm live in prime time. The Vancouver Show was a live
entertainment and public affairs show originally hosted by Mike Winlaw
and Pia
Shandal. Over
the
next 10 years the show would eventually
decrease to 5 hours a week from 6-7 pm and end in Aug. 86. CKVU
was also known as VU 13, CKVU 13, UTV and Global. It is now
called CITY
TV.
CKVU
TV history.
Wikipedia history.
Sept. 20 5 am:
KISM
FM 92.9 Bellingham switches
from oldies to album rock. First
song played: "Don't Fear the
Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult.
Sept.
27 at 9:30 am: CBUFT
CH.
26 VANCOUVER signed on bringing CBC
French language TV service from coast-to coast. CBUFT
Vancouver history.
Wikipedia
history.
BCTV
expanded into the
Kootenays.
1977
Feb: CFVR 1240 Abbotsford moves to AM 850 and increases its
power to 10,000 watts. Later in the year, CKGO 1490 Hope moves to AM
1240.
Nov.
21: CKO FM signs on its
Vancouver station. CKO was a
national news service broadcasting from 6 am-midnight local time.
CKO had stations in Toronto, London, Ottawa, and Montreal. In the
next 8 years the network would add stations in
Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Halifax and St. John’s,
Nfld. Power
was 66,000
watts. Transmittter was on Grouse Mountain. Studios were at
2780 E. Broadway.
Wikipedia history.
History
from Canadian Communications Federation
1978
During this year, cable TV companies introduced their viewers to
converters enabling us to get more than 12 channels through
cable. The first services available were a TV Program Guide,
BROADCAST
NEWS, KSTW
(11) TACOMA and in 1979 the proceedings
of the
House
of Commons. 
1979
Jan. 6: At noon, CKLG FM signed off the air with The Beatles:
“The End” followed by the
Doors: “The End.”. After being
off the air for just over 3 minutes, the sound of ocean waves and an
introduction of CFOX
FM 99.3 was
heard. It’s first song was
Steely Dan’s” “FM”
Sept.
1: CFNI 1240 Port Hardy signs
on
the air
with 1000 watts day/250 watts
at night. CFNI
station history.
Oct. 19: MULTICULTURAL CHANNEL
(Cable 119)
launched with 8 local
producers providing 12 languages for the larger ethnic communities in
the region: Chinese, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Scadinavian and South Asian. The channel was shared with another
service and was aired only in the evenings and weekends. After
the first decade of operation, additional languages of programming were
added as interest from local communities increased and the region’s
cultural communities began to grow.
Nov. 1: KERI
104.3 FM Bellingham also
known as K-104 had played mostly
easy listening music since the mid 60s and had a 3-4 year stint as a
country music FM station. Today it became KNWR (NWR= North West
Rock) with pop hits of the 60s and 70s.