CHSL-FM

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CHSL-FM is a classic hits radio station in Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada. It started out as an AM oldies station. The station's ownership would change countless times over the years. Some of the station's owners included OK Radio Group, Nornet, OSG, and Telemedia. It was eventually purchased by Newcap Broadcasting.

Some time in the 90s the station was rebranded as Cat Country 1210 CKWA. The station was apart of a network of small town Alberta stations that featured local weekday morning shows and network announcers out of Edmonton for the rest of the time.

By the turn of the century the station was known as Cat Country 1210 KWA. Like its sister stations in Athabasca, Westlock and High Prairie it was operated at a low cost and often ridiculed in the community for its poor signal, bad programming, technical problems and lack of local focus.

However in September 2006, NewCap officially disbanded the Cat Country network and relaunched the radio from a state-of-the-art studio as 92.7 FM The Fox. It was even given new call letters: CHSL (standing for Classic Hits Slave Lake). The Fox signified the end of Cat Country and also the end of centralization from Edmonton. Today, The Fox is tied in heavily with its new regional head office out of Edson, Alberta. It also is the only former Cat Country station that relaunched in 2006 with an FM signal.

The station's original line up of announcers were: