| City of license | Toronto, ON |
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| Broadcast area | National |
| Branding | Voices Radio |
| Slogan | Canada's National Aboriginal Radio Network |
| Frequency | Various |
| First air date | 2002 |
| Format | Eclectic music, pop, rock, alternative and hip hop and some talk |
| Former callsigns | CKAV |
| Owner | Aboriginal Voices Radio Inc. |
The Aboriginal Voices Radio Network (AVR) is a Canadian national radio network with radio stations in five Canadian metropolitan areas. The network also has two channels on SiriusXM satellite radio in Canada. It airs programming produced by Indigenous people in Canada, The network provides a music service from Monday to Saturday and carries talk radio on Sundays.
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AVR was founded in 1998 by a group of high-profile Indigenous Canadians, including actor Gary Farmer, playwright, novelist and author Tomson Highway, filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin and actress/producer Jennifer Podemski. Other founders and key contributors to creation of the network included project manager and training coordinator Brian Wright-McLeod, Christopher Spence and Andre Morriseau (production and programming), John Matthews and Mark MacLeod (licencing), Robert Templeton and J. Robert Wood (corporate funding), Elaine Bomberry, David Deleary, Sherman Maness, Nicole Robertson, Minnie Two Shoes and Doug Bingley (strategic advice).
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On August 20, 2009, the CRTC approved an application by Canadian Hellenic Cable Radio (CHCR) to amend the broadcasting licence for its station in Montreal at 106.3 MHz, a second adjacent frequency to CKAV-FM-10 at 106.7 FM, requiring AVR to find an alternative frequency in the event of any interference with the signal of CKAV-FM-10.[6] As of January 2011, CHCR's station, CKIN-FM, has signed on at 106.3 MHz. Furthermore, CKIN-FM's sister station, CKDG-FM, filed an application with the CRTC to relocate that station to 106.7 MHz in May 2010.[7]
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