Editing CBQT-FM (section)

==History==
The station was launched in 1973 as '''CBQ''' on 800 AM. The 800 frequency had been vacated earlier that year by the defunct CJLX, an independent private station which had begun broadcasting in 1959 but went off the air on March 31, 1973 upon expiry of that station's licence after its parent company, Lakehead Broadcasting, failed to renew the licence amid questions about the station's ownership.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://broadcasting-history.ca/radio/radio-stations/ontario/ontario-north-western/cjlx-am/ |title=History of the former radio station CJLX at Canadian Communications Foundation |access-date=2017-09-08 |archive-date=2017-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908111123/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listing_and_histories/radio/cjlx-am |url-status=dead }}</ref> After the CBC acquired the 800 frequency and the studio facilities of CJLX on Miles Street, CBQ's inaugural morning broadcast in December 1973 made it the second city in Ontario to get a regional broadcast centre. The call sign CBQ was a last minute choice by station managers since '''CBL''' (for '''L'''akehead) or '''CBT''' (for '''T'''hunder Bay) were already taken by the CBC stations in [[CBLA-FM|Toronto]] and [[CBT (AM)|Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrabor]], respectively. Instead the letter Q was chosen for [[Quetico Provincial Park]] near [[Atikokan]], which is west of Thunder Bay.

Prior to CBQ's launch, CBC Radio programming aired on private affiliate [[CKTG-FM|CFPA]].

CBQ moved to FM as '''CBQT-FM''' in 1990.<ref>[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1988/DB88-866.HTM Decision CRTC 88-866]</ref> The [[CBQ-FM]] callsign was already in use by the [[CBC Music|CBC Stereo]] sister station on 101.7 FM. Some of the relay transmitters for CBQT previously rebroadcast [[CBLA-FM|CBL]] in Toronto.

[[Image:CBC Studio Thunder Bay.jpg|thumb|CBC Radio One's Thunder Bay studio]]