CHYK-FM
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| Broadcast area | Timmins, Ontario |
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| Branding | "CHYC" |
| Slogan | Toujours plus de musique. |
| First air date | 1952 |
| Frequency | 104.1 MHz (FM) |
| Format | francophone hot adult contemporary |
| ERP | 3.5 kW |
| Callsign meaning | an available callsign that could be pronounced like the French word chic |
| Owner | HBG |
| Website | chycfm.com |
CHYK is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at FM 104.1 in Timmins, Ontario. It broadcasts a francophone hot adult contemporary format for the city's franco-ontarian community. It is owned by Haliburton Broadcasting Group.
The station was originally established in 1952 by J. Conrad Lavigne, with the callsign CFCL. It was the first French radio station in Canada outside of Quebec, operating as a private affiliate of Radio-Canada's French radio network, and one of the few private affiliate stations of a CBC radio network anywhere in Canada. In 1956, Lavigne also established CFCL-TV in the city.
Lavigne's broadcast holdings were eventually merged into the Mid-Canada Communications system. When that company acquired several other radio stations in 1985, CFCL became a commercial station as part of the Mid-Canada Radio network, and disaffiliated from Radio-Canada.
Mid-Canada Radio was sold to the Pelmorex Radio Network in 1990. Because the radio and television station no longer had common ownership, the radio station's callsign was subsequently changed to CKOY.
Pelmorex, in turn, sold its stations to the Haliburton Broadcasting Group in 1999. CKOY was converted to FM, and adopted the CHYK callsign. CHYK was formerly the callsign of a station in Kapuskasing, which was converted to a retransmitter of the Timmins CHYK.
CHYK and its Greater Sudbury sister station CHYC are the only francophone commercial stations programmed entirely in Ontario. Apart from commercials, the two stations in fact simulcast the same programming at almost all times, although both stations produce a portion of the shared broadcast schedule. All other Ontario francophones are served by non-profit community stations such as CHOQ, Radio-Canada affiliates of La Première Chaîne and Espace Musique, or stations originating in Quebec. (One commercial station in Hawkesbury, CHPR, produces 15 hours per week of community programming, but simulcasts a commercial station from Lachute, Quebec the rest of the time.)
The station has two rebroadcast transmitters, CHYX (FM 93.7) in Kapuskasing and CHYK-FM-2 (FM 92.9) in Hearst.
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| Radio stations in Cochrane District, Ontario |
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| Timmins: CJQQ 92.1 • CHMT 93.1 • CKTT 94.3 • CBCJ 96.1 • CBON 97.1 • CKGB 99.3 • CHTI 101.5 • CHIM 102.3 • CHYK 104.1 • Cochrane: CHPB 98.1 • Hearst: CBON-26 90.3 • CINN 91.1 • CHYK-2 92.9 • Iroquois Falls: CFIF 101.1 • CHIM 102.7 • Kapuskasing: CKGN 89.7 • CBON-24 90.7 • CHIM 92.3 • CHYX 93.7 • CKAP 100.9 • CBOK 105.1 • Moosonee: CBEY 1340 • CHMO 1450 • Smooth Rock Falls: CKGN-1 94.7 Greater Sudbury • North Bay • Sault Ste. Marie • Thunder Bay • Timiskaming • Timmins
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