Award for Best Information Radio Program in Central Canada, and in June 2009, the program won the award for all of Canada. The CBC announced in August 2014 that Up North, which premiered on August 11, would replace the former afternoon program Points North. The new program extends its coverage to all of Northern Ontario, also replacing Voyage North on CBQT-FM in Thunder Bay. Former Points North host Dan Lessard retired from the program in June 2010. He was replaced by Jason Turnbull, who served as host of Points North, and then of Up North, until leaving the station in 2018 to take a job in media relations with Health Sciences North. Turnbull, in turn, was succeeded by Waubgeshig Rice, who hosted the show until leaving the CBC in May 2020. Jonathan Pinto was named the new host of the program, effective September 2020. In the CBC's proposed new regional programming strategy released in 2005, North Bay was scheduled to receive its own local news bureau, although North Bay would continue to receive CBCS' local programming apart from news updates. As of 2020, however, no separate local news service has been launched in North Bay. Rebroadcasters AM to FM and technical information On January 22, 1985, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to move CBLQ Latchford (Temiskaming Shores) from 1450 kHz to 750 kHz. The change to 750 kHz in Latchford was never implemented, due to possible interference from CKGB Timmins, which had moved to 750 kHz in 1984. CBLQ remained on 1450 in Latchford until it moved to 102.3 MHz on the FM band in 1996 as CBCY-FM. On October 25, 2013, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to decrease the power of CBLJ-FM from 50,000 watts to 4,807 watts, combined with an increase in the effective height of antenna above average terrain (EHAAT) from 114.6 to 132.6 metres. On July 4, 2014, the CBC submitted an application to convert CBEU 1340 to the FM band, which received CRTC approval on November 4, 2014. Temagami's FM transmitter signed on at 106.1 MHz in late 2014 with its new callsign, CBCS-FM-1. On February 26, 2016, the CBC submitted an application to convert CBEY 1340 to the FM band. Its proposed callsign will be CBEY-FM. On June 20, 2016, the CRTC approved the CBC's application to operate an FM rebroadcasting transmitter in Moosonee to replace its existing low-power AM transmitter CBEY.