CJLV

CJLV is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Laval, Quebec, near Montreal. Owned and operated by Radio Humsafar Inc, it broadcasts on 1570 kHz with a power of 10,000 watts as a class B station, using a directional antenna pointing east which has a slightly directional pattern during the day and a much tighter pattern at night, to protect Class-A clear-channel station XERF-AM in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico. While the station's signal is unimpressive from a local point of view and does not even cover entirely the Greater Montreal area even during daytime, the station has been received by many DXers in Europe and is considered there as one of the "easy" targets for Transatlantic DX.

History

The station received CRTC approval on July 2, 2003 for a new commercial French-language AM radio station in Laval by Gilles Lajoie and Colette Chabot. The station's format evolved from a mix of adult standards and oldies when the station opened on March 9, 2004, to a more traditional oldies format focused on the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s in July 2010. Initially identifying itself as "Radio Nostalgie", the station later identified itself as "Radio Boomer AM 1570".