CFGL was founded in September 1968 by Jean-Pierre Coallier and Roland Saucier. It originally was powered at 100,000 watts but from a tower in Laval only 400 feet in height. It began as a French-language
beautiful music station serving Laval and the suburbs north of Montreal. In the 1980s, the audience for the
easy listening format began aging, so CFGL began adding more vocals in an effort to attract younger listeners. It made the full transition to French
soft adult contemporary music in 1992. In 1999, it switched to a French mainstream
adult contemporary sound, known as
Rythme FM. The move proved to be quite successful. CFGL became the top-rated
French-language radio station in
North America. It held that distinction until its
sister station, French talk outlet
CHMP-FM, overtook it in Fall 2011. On May 17, 2017, CFGL-FM began broadcasting in
HD Radio, offering a
digital radio simulcast of its FM feed on its digital sideband, with room for potential expansion of subchannels in the future. By 2019, the station returned to
soft adult contemporary. ==Notable hosts==