Previously known as
CJBR when the station was on the
AM band on 900
kHz, the station moved to
FM in 2001. It is one of the few CBC/SRC stations to not have a
call sign beginning with CB, as it was originally a privately owned station; CJBR was an affiliate of Radio-Canada from the station's opening in 1937 until it was bought by Radio-Canada in 1977. The call sign "CJBR" stands for
Canada
Jules
Brillant
Rimouski (
Jules Brillant being the founder of the station). When it bought the station in 1977 from Telemedia (who acquired Brillant's broadcasting properties in 1970), Radio-Canada initially wanted to change the call sign to CBSL, but this plan was discarded after a petition was circulated against this change. A new private radio station, CFLP (now
CJOI-FM), was opened in Rimouski the following year. The station originally broadcast on 1030 kHz with 1,000 watts. On March 29, 1941, the station moved to 900 kHz. Power was increased to 5,000 watts full-time in 1947, and to 10,000 watts full-time in 1956. The AM transmitter was shut down on September 6, 2001 at 9 AM. Its FM
sister station, originally called
CJBR-FM, had to change its own call sign to
CBRX-FM. The station's current local programs are
Info-réveil, in the mornings from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m., and ''Le monde aujourd'hui
in the afternoons, 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. CJBR-FM also co-produces D'Est en est
, a pan-regional program produced in turn with CBGA-FM Matane and CBSI-FM Sept-Îles and heard afternoons during the summer months. On public holidays, its local programs are replaced with local shows airing provincewide produced by different outlets in turn (except Montreal and Quebec City). Its Saturday morning program, Samedi et rien d'autre'', originates from
CBF-FM Montreal. ==Repeater==