At the time Quebec City was the only provincial capital without a CBC-owned and -operated English-language radio station.
This put CFOM in a difficult position as a commercial station whose license required it to air predominantly non-commercial programming.
In 1967, three years after it was recalled CFOM, the station was allowed to move to 1350 AM and boost its power to 1,000 watts.
Subsequent ratings and commercial financial returns for the station improved as French listeners now tuned in to hear popular English language music.
However, in 1974, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ordered the station to go back to carrying CBC programming full-time.
Shortly before, disk jockey Al MacKay gave a special farewell message in English and French, followed by its final song, the 1975 "The Way We Were" / "Try to Remember" medley by Gladys Knight & the Pips.
[1] At the time of the station's demise, 110,000 listeners tuned in on a regular basis—decent numbers considering Quebec City's high francophone population.
No privately owned anglophone station has signed on in Quebec City since CFOM's demise.