CHIM-FM

CHIM-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts Christian music at 102.3 FM in Timmins, Ontario.

The station began testing its signal at 102.3 MHz on December 24, 1995, and officially signed on April 7, 1996.^[1] The station has expanded through a network of rebroadcast transmitters in Northern Ontario. CHIM-FM also has a rebroadcaster in Red Deer, Alberta, CHIM-FM-5, which originates some of its own programming.

Its call letters are pronounced, on air, as "see Him."

Programming

The station's best-known program is the MAD Christian Radio Show, a Christian rock show hosted by Kristen McNulty, which originally started as a show on CHIM. Today it is syndicated to Christian radio stations across Canada and internationally.

Other programming aired on the station includes Charles Stanley's In Touch and Tristan Emmanuel's No Apologies.

Transmitters

CHIM-FM-5 in Red Deer, Alberta is licensed as a repeater of CHIM, but broadcasts some local programming for the Red Deer area.

In 2000, CHIM's application to add a transmitter in Toronto, Ontario at 106.3 MHz was denied. ^{[6] [7]} In 2001, CHIM's application to add a transmitter in Vancouver, British Columbia at 92.9 MHz was denied. ^[8] CHIM's application to add a transmitter at 102.3 MHz in Cochrane, Ontario was denied as well in 2008. ^[9] An unrelated radio station, New 102.1 owned by Cochrane Christian Radio to operate a new english language christian radio station at Cochrane on 102.1 MHz received CRTC approval on April 18, 2011.

Info Radio

CHIM's owner, Roger de Brabant, also operates a number of low-powered tourist information radio stations branded as Info Radio. These stations also use the "Canada's Good News Network", or "Part of the Good News Network" slogan on air sometimes, but do not share the CHIM network's Christian programming.

References

External links

• CHIM-FM
• History of CHIM-FM at Canadian Communications Foundation
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CHIM-FM