CJBC (860 kHz) is a French language, non-commercial, public radio station in Toronto, Ontario.
A previous radio station with the call sign CJBC was owned and operated by the Jarvis Street Baptist Church from 1925 until 1933.
The CJBC call letters were subsequently acquired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to replace CBY.
CJBC began carrying some French language programming in 1962, initially in the form of a nightly, half-hour newscast.
With the closure of the Dominion Network on October 1, 1962, CJBC's French schedule expanded to two hours of programming each evening.
[5] However, his case was dismissed by the Ontario Supreme Court in 1965 on grounds of legal standing, as Cowan could not show material harm from the format change.
The station maintained a skeleton staff of just two reporters for local news breaks, while otherwise simulcasting CJBC's programming the rest of the time.
[8] On July 8, 2024, the CRTC published applications by the CBC to reassign the London rebroadcaster, CJBC-4-FM, to CBEF, following a request by a coalition of Francophone groups in that area to receive the Windsor station's programming.
Since 1993, the CJBC studios have been based at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre on Front Street West in Downtown Toronto.
In 2011, following the revocation of CKLN-FM's licence, the CBC submitted an unsuccessful application to the CRTC to add a nested rebroadcaster of CJBC on 88.1 FM in Toronto.