Tom O’Brien owner of the Artic Radio Network says CFAR 590 in Flin Flon, CJ1240 in The Pas and 610 CHTM in Thompson will be expanding to the FM band this summer while remaining on the AM band.  He says its something they’ve been trying to do for a long time and it takes a long time sometimes to get everything in order with government approval and so on, but primarily they want to provide a better service to their local communities and FM is it, it is the way everything has gone but they didn’t want to turn off the AM transmitters because there would be parts of northern Manitoba that would be without radio service.

              The stations will hit the FM band in July and will be heard at 102.9 on the dial.