CKYE-FM

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CKYE-FM
City of license	Surrey, BC
Broadcast area	Greater Vancouver
Branding	Red-FM
Slogan	"Reflecting Ethnic Diversity"
First air date	21 December 2005
Frequency	93.1 MHz
Format	Multicultural
ERP	4,200 W
Owner	South Asian Broadcasting Corporation
Webcast	Listen live
Website	redfm.ca

CKYE-FM (identified on air and in print as Red-FM) is a Canadian radio station in the Greater Vancouver region of British Columbia. It broadcasts at 93.1 megahertz on the FM band with an effective radiated power of 4200 watts from a transmitter on Mount Seymour, and its studios are located in Surrey. The station is owned by the South Asian Broadcasting Corporation.

[edit] History

Initial approval for a new ethnic radio station was granted on 21 July 2005 by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. The station was originally licensed to broadcast with an average effective radiated power of 2,800 watts, which was increased to 4,200 watts on 21 December 2005. Terms of the license included a stipulation that 90% of all programming in each broadcast week must be ethnic in nature. The station is required to provide programming in at least 15 different languages, targeted at no less than 15 different ethnic groups. 75% of this programming must be in the Punjabi, Hindi, and Urdu languages.

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Station history from Canadian Communications Foundation

FM radio stations in Vancouver, Victoria, B.C. and Bellingham, Washington

Vancouver: CJSF 90.1 • CBUX 90.9 • CKYE 93.1 • CJJR 93.7 • CFBT 94.5 • CKZZ 95.3 • CHKG 96.1 • CKLG 96.9 • CBUF 97.7 • CFOX 99.3 • CFMI 101.1 • CITR 101.9 • CISW 102.7 • CFRO 102.7 • CHQM 103.5 • CKCL 104.9 • CBU 105.7 • CKAV-2 106.3 • CFML 107.9 • Abbotsford: CIVL 88.7 • CKQC 107.1 • Chilliwack: CBYF 91.7 • CKSR 98.3 • Hope: CFSR 100.5 • CBUE 101.7 • Squamish: CISQ 107.1 • Whistler: CBYW 100.1 • Victoria: CBUX 89.9 • CBCV 90.5 • CJZN 91.3 • CBU-1 92.1 • CIOC 98.5 • CKKQ 100.3 • CFUV 101.9 • CHTT 103.1 • CHBE 107.3 • Bellingham: KUGS 89.3 • KMWS 90.1 • KSVR 91.7 • KZAZ 91.7 • KISM 92.9 • KMRE 102.3 • KAVZ 102.5 • KWPA 103.1 • KAFE 104.3 • KWPZ 106.5 • Port Angeles/Forks: KVIX 89.3 • KNWP 90.1 • KBDB 103.9 See also: Vancouver (FM) (AM)