Casimir Stanczykowski: CFMB

Stefan Stanczykowski Dept: If you look at it literally, CFMB is a family affair. It was launched 50 years ago this month by Stanczykowski s father, Casimir. Its studios actually are in a basement, of a building on York St. in Westmount. And I spotted a turntable in there when I visited this week, according to Montreal Gazette. The station might never have got off the ground half a century ago had it not been for the persistence of Casimir Stanczykowski, a Polish immigrant and Second World War survivor who, the legend says, began working to launch the station in 1957 on a bet and we re not a mom-and-pop operation, Stefan Stanczykowski says of the multilingual ethnic radio station he runs, CFMB 1280 AM. A lot of people think we re in a basement with a turntable. But his larger point remains: CFMB is not a small operation. It has 52 people working for it, between full-timers, part-timers and independent producers. It has professional studios putting out more than 100 hours of local programming every week. And its 50,000-watt signal reaches as far as Quebec City and Ottawa. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.