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Riding Mountain Broadcasting

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Type
  
Consumer cooperative

Website
  
westmancom.com

Founded
  
1977

Net income
  
20 million USD

Area served
  
Southwestern Manitoba

Headquarters
  
Brandon, Canada

Number of employees
  
125

Key people
  
David Baxter (CEO & President) Jeffrey DeSarno (Director, Technical Operations) John Quail (Director, Marketing & Sales) Shep Kaastra (Chief Financial Officer) Cam Clark (General Manager, RMBL)

Products
  
Cable provider Internet provider 2 Radio Stations

Parent organization
  
Westman Communications Group

Riding Mountain Broadcasting Ltd is a communication company based in Brandon, Manitoba. The company runs two radio stations: CKLQ (880 Q Country) and CKLF-FM (94.7 Star FM). Both stations are located at 624 14th Street East, on Brandon's southeast side.

Riding Mountain Broadcasting started in 1977 with CKLQ. The original CKLQ was broadcast on the frequency 1570 AM with a power of 1,000 watts. In 1985, CKLQ switched to the 880 AM frequency and increased its power to 10,000 watts.

In 2000, Riding Mountain Broadcasting created a second radio station, CKLF-FM, on the frequency 94.7 FM with a power of 100,000 watts.

In 2003, Riding Mountain Broadcasting became a subsidiary of Westman Communications Group.

References

Riding Mountain Broadcasting Wikipedia