1935
The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission launched CRCW in Windsor on February 14, at 8:00 p.m. The station broadcast on 600 kHz with a power of 1,000 watts day and 500 watts night. CRCW was partially owned by Western Ontario Broadcasting Co., owner of CKLW.

1937
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation replaced the CRBC in 1936. As a result, CRCW became CBW on October 3, 1937 at 4:00 p.m.

1938
On February 5 at 6:00 p.m., CBW left the air.

1946
The CBC stated it had plans for a new station in Windsor.

1948
The CBC announced plans for power increases and new stations at four locations. CBM Montreal and CBR Vancouver would increase power from 5,000 to 50,000 watts. New stations would be established at Windsor (10,000 watts) and Sydney (1,000 watts). Sydney should be operational this fall. The other changes would not be in place until late 1949.

1950
CBE began broadcasting on July 1. It operated on a frequency of 1550 kHz with a power of 10,000 watts (same directional pattern for day and night operation), using two towers in  Sandwich South Township, Essex County. CBE was a CBC Trans-Canada station.

John Moore was CBE's first program director. He came to Windsor from CBO in Ottawa. He would later be involved with the ownership of CJSP (CHYR) Leamington and CHLO St. Thomas.

1953
Harry Boyle was named director of programs for CBC Ontario - radio and television. He had been program director of the Trans-Canada network for eight years.

1954 
John Moore left the CBC in December to become station manager and part owner of the soon to open CJSP in Leamington.

1962
The Trans-Canada and Dominion networks were consolidated into a single service. CBE had been the Trans-Canada station while CKLW-FM was the Dominion station with CKLW-AM acting as a supplementary B Dominion affiliate. Followint the network merger, the CKLW stations became independent and CBE carried on as the single CBC network station in the market.

1963
CBC Radio added an all-night service in June.

1968
CBC Radio's all-night service, started in 1963, came to an end on March 1. When the service started it was primarily intended as a national information and warning system to be used in emergencies. Even though the service had now ended, the CBC said it would maintain a stand-by procedure through the night and broadcasts would begin immediately in the event of an emergency.

1970
French-language Radio-Canada service came to Windsor with the opening of CBEF 540.

1975
On September 1, CBE gained a sister television station when the CBC acquired 100% of CKLW-TV and changed the call letters to CBET. The CBC had acquired  a 25% interest in the station in 1970.

1976
The CBC was authorized to add transmitters at Chatham (95.1 MHz with effective radiated power of 35,500 watts) and Sarnia (106.3 MHz with ERP of 50,000 watts).

1977
On November 27, CBEE-FM Chatham and CBEG-FM Sarnia, signed on the air.

1978
CBC FM Stereo service came to Windsor with the launch of CBE-FM 89.9, October 15.

1986
On March 10, CBEE-FM Chatham was given approval to move from 95.1 to 88.1 MHz and to decrease effective radiated power from 35,500 to 1,430 watts. CBEG-FM Sarnia was granted a frequency change from 106.3 to 90.3 MHz with a decrease in power from 50,000 to 1,800 watts.

Evan Purchase, radio manager for CBC Windsor, left for CBC Regina to be director of Television.

1995
CBC Radio added overnight programming to its schedule on May 1, with "CBC Radio Overnight". The programming started out on certain CBC stations and was expanded to all of its stations by September. The program aired between 1:00 and 6:00 a.m. (local time) and offered reports from public broadcasters in 25 countries, with Canadian news on the hour. The program service was provided by the World Radio Network in London, England.

1997
The CBC Radio network (CBC Radio) was renamed CBC Radio One on September 1.

In September, the CBE noon-hour show was replaced by a new provincial noon-hour show Ontario Today, hosted by Dave Stephens from CBO in Ottawa. Susan Little would be the Windsor correspondent for the show.

2001
By this time, CBE operated two rebroadcast transmitters: CBEE-FM Chatham and CBEG-FM Sarnia. CBE broadcast approximately 25 hours of local programming each week from Windsor.

2002
On December 11, the CBC was granted transitional digital radio undertaking licences for CBE-AM and CBE-FM. The CBC co-sited and shared the existing DRB facilities at the site of CHUM’s FM stations at Windsor, using the EUREKA-147 DAB system in the frequency band 1452 MHz-1492 MHz (L-Band). The transmitter operated on frequency 1484.208 MHz (channel 19) with an effective isotropic radiated power of 4,369 watts.

2009
The CRTC renewed the licence for CBE, CBE-DR-2 (Windsor), CBEE-FM Chatham and CBEG-FM Sarnia.

On June 16 the CRTC approved the conversion of CBE to the FM band. The new station would operate on 97.5 MHz with an average effective radiated power of 3,200 watts (maximum ERP of 19,000 watts). Effective height of the antenna above average terrain would be 130.1 metres. The station would retain the existing program format, including programming received from CBC Radio One and local programming. The CBC had originally proposed to operate a new FM transmitter at Leamington on 91.5 MHz. That frequency could not be used at Leamington so the CBC filed an amended application for the use of 91.9 MHz, with an average ERP of 5,300 watts (maximum ERP of 10,450 watts). Effective height of antenna above average terrain would be 73.6 metres. Approval of the Leamington application was also approved on this date. The Commission noted that the transmitters CBEE-FM Chatham and CBEG-FM Sarnia, presently authorized as transmitters of CBE, would be part of the new FM licence.

                                                  Written by Bill Dulmage – Updated July, 2010