Since the demise of CKTS in 1992, CJMQ is the only locally produced English-language broadcaster in the Eastern Townships.
In the early 1980s, the station radically expanded, acquiring a large complement of studio equipment from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, including the sound console from Les Beaux Dimanches, and a complete studio from CJFM in Montreal.
It was licensed by the CRTC as a low power not-for-profit campus-community station, which meant it had to provide an alternative source of news, information, and entertainment programming.
Transmitting power and antenna location meant that signal reception was not optimum: parts of Bishop's University campus itself and one side of the main street in downtown Lennoxville received a static filled signal throughout the majority of the broadcast day.
[2] Following the shutdown of CKTS in 2006, CJMQ's license was upgraded from Type B to Type A, a special status which confers a more flexible set of regulatory requirements on community radio stations in markets which are not served by any commercial radio stations operating in the same language.