Owned and operated by the (government-owned) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Radio-Canada), it broadcasts on 88.1 MHz using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 33,500 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 94,200 watts (class C).

On October 3, 1983, a first radio show was produced for the Island from Moncton (La marée de l'Île, hosted by Maurice Arsenault).

Denis Duchesne is the host of Le Réveil, Monday to Friday from 6 to 9 a.m.[2] The rest of its programming is a simulcast of CBAF-FM-5 from Halifax, Nova Scotia.

[3] On November 21, 2005, the CRTC granted CBAF-FM-15 to operate rebroadcasters in St. Edward and Urbainville to serve areas on the fringe of the primary transmitter's signal.

CBAF-FM-15 was originally identified as CBAF-29-FM; the call sign change took effect on September 1, 1989,[4] as the old 1300 kHz AM signal of CBAF was shut down.