On June 16, 2009, CBE received approval for its conversion to 97.5 FM and for its Leamington repeater. Originally, no time frame was given for the AM to FM transition, though after the new FM signal would sign on, the AM signal was to go silent after three months of simulcasting, with the repeater signal at 102.3 to close within thirty days of the start-up of the 97.5 signal. That decision came following the CRTC approval for CJAM to relocate to 99.1 in March 2009. The 97.5 facilities began testing on December 1, 2010, the start of a 7-month testing stage that also included resolving issues between the new signal and second-adjacent stations in Detroit (WXYT-FM 97.1 and WJLB 97.9). The station officially launched on July 1, 2011 under the call sign of CBEW-FM (which was the call sign for a defunct CBC radio transmitter in Fraserdale).