| City of license | Sherbrooke, Quebec |
|---|---|
| Branding | CKOI 107.7 |
| Slogan | L'Ultime Radio |
| Frequency | 107.7 MHz (FM) |
| First air date | 1937 (AM) 2007 (FM) |
| Format | hot adult contemporary |
| ERP | 50 kW |
| Class | C1 |
| Callsign meaning | disambiguation of sister station CKOI-FM |
| Former callsigns | CHLT (1937-2007) CHLT-FM (2007-2011) |
| Owner | Cogeco (591991 B.C. Ltd.) |
| Sister stations | CFGE-FM |
| Website | CKOI 107,7 Estrie |
CKOY-FM is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Sherbrooke, Quebec. The station carries a hot adult contemporary format under the branding "CKOI 107.7".
Owned and operated by Cogeco, it broadcasts on 107.7 MHz using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 24,000 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 50,000 watts (class C1). The station's transmitter is located at Mount Bellevue.
The station first aired as CHLT on AM 1210 kHz in 1937, moved to AM 1240 on March 29, 1941, moved to AM 900 in 1946 and then to 630 AM in the 1950s.
The station moved to the FM band as CHLT-FM on August 20, 2007.[1] Due to signal deficiencies on 102.1, the station was given CRTC approval to move to 107.7 FM on July 30, 2008.[2] Since its transmitter site is located at Mount Bellevue, the station has (unlike competitors CITE-FM-1 and CIMO-FM) good coverage in the city of Sherbrooke. The call sign "CHLT-FM" was previously used by CITE-FM-1, which was originally created in the 1960s as a sister station of CHLT.
In March 2009, then-owner Corus Entertainment announced plans to drop the talk radio format on CHLT, CJRC-FM in Gatineau, CHLN-FM in Trois-Rivières and CKRS-FM in Saguenay in favour of a classic hits-oldies format branded as "Souvenirs Garantis", effective on March 28, 2009.[3]
On May 1, 2009, the old AM 630 CHLT signal left the air.[4]
On December 17, 2010, the CRTC approved the sale of most of Corus' radio stations in Quebec, including CHLT-FM, to Cogeco.[5]
On February 1, 2011, Cogeco swapped the music formats on 104.5 FM and 107.7 FM. 107.7 assumed the hot adult contemporary format and CKOY-FM calls that was previously used on 104.5, which now carries the Souvenirs Garantis format.[6]
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