CJVB (1470 kHz) is a radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which broadcasts multilingual programming.

Owned by the Fairchild Group, the station with a power of 50,000 watts, using two different directional patterns for daytime and nighttime operation.

Jan van Bruchem immigrated from the Netherlands to the Toronto area in the 1960s and began working part-time at a 250-watt radio station in Barrie.

[1][2] The main reason was a lack of statistics on new arrivals to Canada; as a result, van Bruchem hit the streets, documenting ethnic restaurants and Sikh temples.

[4] In late November 1971, the CRTC awarded the licence to van Bruchem, who sold his house in Thornhill, Ontario, and moved to Vancouver to start the station.

[1] In 1983, CJVB was the first station in town to begin broadcasting in AM stereo using the C-QUAM system,[16] beating out CKWX by six days though behind CKOV in Kelowna.

[22] In 1995, Fairchild and Roger Charest, owner of CKER in Edmonton, made a joint bid to the CRTC to establish FM world music stations in Vancouver and Calgary.

On Sundays, the station turns over to blocks of other programs, including shows in Filipino, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Macedonian, Polish, Thai, and Vietnamese, as well as the indigenous program Turtle Island Radio and shows spotlighting Celtic and world music.