Editing CBCS-FM (section)

==History==
On July 28, 1975, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation received approval from the CRTC to operate a new english-language FM station at Sudbury, Ontario. The proposed frequency was 97.1&nbsp;MHz <ref>[https://www.worldradiohistory.com/CANADA/CRTC-Decisions/CRTC-Decisions-1975-1976.pdf Decision CRTC 75-329], Original CRTC Decision to operate a new CBC FM radio station at Sudbury, Ontario, ''CRTC'', page 130, July 28, 1975</ref> (later read 99.9&nbsp;MHz when launched).

The station was launched on May 5, 1978 on 99.9&nbsp;MHz. Prior to its launch, CBC Radio programming aired on private affiliates [[CJRQ-FM|CKSO]] and [[CIGM-FM|CKSO-FM]].<ref name=sudburyliving>[http://www.sudburylivingmagazine.com/2013/07/23/sudbury-radio-history-highlights.html "Sudbury Radio History Highlights"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009172725/http://www.sudburylivingmagazine.com/2013/07/23/sudbury-radio-history-highlights.html |date=2016-10-09 }}. ''[[Laurentian Media Group|Sudbury Living]]'', July 23, 2013.</ref>

The [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission|CRTC]] decision authorizing the launch of CBCS in fact encouraged, but did not direct, the CBC to retain an AM frequency for [[CBC Radio One|CBC Radio]], and to reserve CBCS for its [[CBC Music|CBC Stereo]] network.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/radio/histories.php?id=283&historyID=308 |title=CBCS History at Canadian Communications Foundation |access-date=2007-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930201111/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/radio/histories.php?id=283&historyID=308 |archive-date=2007-09-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref> However, the station launched in 1978 as an affiliate of the talk network after the CBC was unable to negotiate an agreement with Cambrian Broadcasting to directly acquire CKSO.

The CBC later applied for a second license for its Stereo network, which was granted in 1984.<ref>[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1984/DB84-906.HTM CRTC Decision 84-906]</ref> However, that station remain unlaunched throughout the 1980s, and the CBC was forced in 1991 to surrender all of its non-operating licenses. Consequently, [[CBC Music|CBC Radio 2]] service was not available in the city until the launch of [[CBBS-FM]] in 2001.

In the CBC's service reductions announced in March 2009, CBCS was slated to lose half of its existing staff. Several hundred people attended a rally at the city's [[Tom Davies Square]] on April 5 to protest the cutbacks, with participants including federal MPs [[Glenn Thibeault]], [[Claude Gravelle]] and [[Charlie Angus]], and musicians [[Kevin Closs]] and [[Stéphane Paquette]].<ref>[http://www.northernlife.ca/News/LocalNews/2009/cbc_rally060409004.asp?NLStory=cbc_rally060409004 "Musicians, politicians participate in CBC rally"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090409142246/http://www.northernlife.ca/News/LocalNews/2009/cbc_rally060409004.asp?NLStory=cbc_rally060409004|date=April 9, 2009}}. ''[[Northern Life (newspaper)|Northern Life]]'', April 7, 2009.</ref>

In September 2014, the station announced that it would move in late 2015 from 15 Mackenzie Street, where it had been located since its launch in 1978, to a new leased studio and office space on Elm Street.<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/cbc-sudbury-on-the-move-1.2764799 "CBC Sudbury on the move"]. CBC Northern Ontario, September 12, 2014.</ref> The move was completed in December 2015.<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/cbc-sudbury-history-15-mackenzie-street-1.3359124 "15 Mackenzie Street: before and after CBC Sudbury"]. CBC Sudbury, December 11, 2015.</ref> The CBC had an open house in September 2016. <ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/cbc-sudbury-open-house-1.3754780 CBC Sudbury swings open the doors Saturday morning — and you're invited!], ''CBC Sudbury'', September 9, 2016</ref> The former studio on Mackenzie Street was then rented out to Siena Films as the police station in the 2017 drama series ''[[Cardinal (TV series)|Cardinal]]''.<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/cbc-sudbury-cardinal-1.3934206 "CBC Sudbury's former office transformed into a police station for TV mini-series"]. CBC Northern Ontario, January 17, 2017.</ref>