Its studios are co-located with its francophone sister stations on Rue St-Jean in Downtown Quebec City.

CBVE is the originating station for all CBC Radio One transmitters in Quebec outside Montreal and the Outaouais.

Together, they are known as the Quebec Community Network, with a special mandate to provide service to the province's anglophone minority.

Although it is a semi-satellite of CBME-FM in Montreal, most of the station's operations are in Quebec City except for master control, which is based at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto.

Prior to its launch, CBC Radio programming was aired on private affiliate CFOM.

[2] On September 11, 2008, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to operate a temporary low-power FM mono transmitter at Lac-Mégantic.

[16] The CRTC approved the CBC's application to operate new FM transmitters in Lebel-sur-Quévillon and Senneterre on July 27, 2017.

The power increase for CBVC would cover Chapais located about 40 kilometers away which may no longer need the low-power AM rebroadcast transmitter, CBMD 1400.