canada availability fm quebec founded by corus qu bec owner cogeco launch date 2005 dissolved 2012 souvenirs garantis french for memories guaranteed was a network of french language classic hits radio stations broadcasting throughout quebec canada . anchored by cfom fm 102.9 in quebec city the format was created by corus entertainment as part of the corus qu bec group of stations . under corus ownership souvenirs garantis stations were based in all major quebec markets except for montreal which had no station carrying the format full time . the format featured a largely defined classic hits format including music from the 1970s to the 1990s but mostly from the 1970s and 1980s . cfom fm s logo as a souvenirs garantis station 2005 2012 . all stations of the network used a logo design similar to this one . the branding was first used by cfom fm in 2005 though that station carried an oldies format since 1995 . cfom fm acted as the flagship station of the souvenirs garantis network . in march 2009 corus expanded the souvenirs garantis format to four other stations chlt fm 107.7 in sherbrooke cjrc fm 104.7 in gatineau chln fm 106.9 in trois rivi res and ckrs fm 98.3 in saguenay replacing their long time news talk formats on these stations . 1 these changes also came following the closedown of these stations am signals as well as a crtc revision of its formatting regulations a few weeks earlier to permit oldies music on fm radio for the first time . 2 these stations carry local programming along with some networked programs originating from cfom . there was no full time souvenirs garantis outlet in montreal though its programming is simulcasted during weekends on chmp fm 98.5 ; until 2010 it was also carried during late night hours on ckac am 730 . it was also broadcast overnight on news radio station cinf am 690 until that station folded in january 2010 . on april 30 2010 it was announced that cogeco would acquire all radio stations owned by corus in quebec including its corus qu bec stations and montreal anglophone station cfqr fm pending crtc approval . 3 the sale of the corus qu bec stations has been approved by the crtc on december 17 2010 . 4 on june 25 it was reported that corus has agreed to sell ckrs to a local company called radio saguenay ; 5 the station soon after adopted the fm 98 moniker but retaining the classic hits format with local talk programming during the day . on february 1 2011 cogeco switched the sherbrooke station from chlt 107.7 fm to ckoy 104.5 fm ; the latter station which was to have been sold off by december 2011 4 was re called cjts fm picking up the souvenirs garantis format and branding . that station would go dark on december 6 2011 in compliance with the conditions set forth by the sale of the station to cogeco as cogeco was unable to find a buyer for the station by the deadline . 6 on february 21 2011 cjrc fm in gatineau 7 and chln fm in trois rivi res 8 was rebranded to ckoi 104.7 and ckoi 106.9 respectively bringing the expanding ckoi format and branding to the ottawa valley and the mauricie region . ckof fm ckoy fm and ckob fm reverted to their talk formats on august 20 2012 . 9 10 sometime during 2012 chmp fm discontinued carrying souvenirs garantis programming as they expanded its talk programming to late nights and weekends with some periods particularly on weekends filled with their own music blocks . this all but ended the souvenirs garantis network which in the short term continued to be heard exclusively on cfom fm . on sunday september 16 2012 cfom fm discontinued its souvenirs garantis branding switching to a new name 102 9 qu bec . the station s classic hits and talk programming would remain ; the station would later rebrand as m fm in august 2014 featuring a more hit music intensive format . references edit francophone news talk listeners across much of quebec will be out of luck at month s end scott fybush nerw 2009 03 09 broadcasting regulatory policy crtc 2009 61 canada s corus entertainment sells all its stations in quebec including montreal . radio info.com . april 30 2010 . a b broadcasting decision crtc 2010 942 transfer of effective control of various commercial radio programming undertakings from corus entertainment inc. to cogeco inc. issued december 17 2010 . corus sells saguenay station to local buyers the wire report 25 june 2010 cogeco press release cjts fm to close its doors december 6 2011 . http www.info07.com culture 2011 02 14 article 2238997 cjrc devient ckoi 104 % 2c7 1 le nouvelliste chln devient ckoi february 14 2011 . french fagstein cogeco to convert three ckoi stations to talk radio june 20 2012 . cogeco press release cogeco diffusion expansion de son r seau parl june 20 2012 . french v t e cogeco cable television stations cogecotv cogecotv windsor cogecotv kingston cogecotv north bay other cable 14 am radio stations ckac 730 montreal fm radio stations rythme fm cfgl 105.7 montreal cime 103.9 saint j r me cfge 93.7 98.1 sherbrooke cjeb 100.1 trois rivi res talk radio chmp 98.5 montreal ckof 104.7 gatineau ckoy 107.7 sherbrooke ckob 106.9 trois rivi res other ckoi 96.9 montreal ckbe 92.5 montreal cfom 102.9 quebec city cjmf 93.3 quebec city other properties atlantic broadband defunct properties cko radio network ckoi network cjts 104.5 sherbrooke souvenirs garantis retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title souvenirs garantis & oldid 728519196 categories cogeco radio stationsfrench language radio in canadaoldies radio stations in canadaradio stations in quebecdefunct canadian radio networksradio stations established in 2009radio stations disestablished in 2012hidden categories articles with french language external links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 5 july 2016 at 22 50 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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