CHRI-FM

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**CHRI**

City of license	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Broadcast area	National Capital Region
Slogan	Ottawa's Family Radio Network
First air date	30 March 1997
Frequency	99.1 MHz (FM) Ottawa 88.1 MHz (FM) Cornwall 100.7 MHz (FM) Pembroke
Format	Contemporary Christian music
ERP	25.3 kW
Class	C1
Callsign meaning	Christian Hit Radio Inc.
Owner	Christian Hit Radio Inc.
Webcast	Winamp .pls stream
Website	chri.ca

CHRI is a Canadian non-profit, charity-status and commercial radio station, which broadcasts at 99.1 FM in Ottawa, Ontario. The station broadcasts a Contemporary Christian music format.

CHRI was launched on Easter Sunday 30 March 1997 by Christian Hit Radio Inc.

The station also has rebroadcasters in the following communities:

Cornwall - 88.1 FM
Pembroke - 100.7 FM

1 Location
2 The Crew
3 Friends
4 External links

[edit] Location

CHRI-FM "Ottawa's Family Radio Network" is situated in Ottawa-South. The antenna is situated in Greely in the ex-administrative municipality of Osgoode Township.

[edit] The Crew

CHRI-FM's longest lasting crew member is Brock Tozer(Morning Host & Program Director), who has been with company since it's first year 1997.

Although CHRI-FM is clearly not a publicly traded company (ministry based), management (Bill Stevens, Brock Tozer, Dianne Van Der Putten) still must report to a board of directors.

CHRI-FM has a general manager, traffic manager, an accountant, a broadcast technician, sales representatives, a fund-raiser, a producer, a handful of paid disc jockeys, and several volunteer disc jockeys, along with many great volunteers from the community.

[edit] Friends

CHRI-FM is friends with most of their advertisers (as they normally keep a good loyalty to CHRI-FM). CHRI-FM is also great friends with local Christian artists such as Joel Geleynse, David Macdonald, and Worship this Day, CHRI-FM are also great supporters of Compassion Canada and World Vision.