by 1962, ckvl-fm increased its power from 10,000 watts to 307,000 watts omnidirectional from the rooftop of the cibc tower in downtown montreal. it is often believed that this unusual high power was granted as the result of a clerical error by the canadian radio-television and telecommunications commission (crtc), but that government organization did not exist at the time as radio was still regulated by the crtc's predecessor, the board of broadcast governors. regulations limiting effective radiated power to 100,000 watts on fm, which came into force that same year, did not apply to stations which had already received approval for a higher power.