CHYK-FM

CHYK-FM

City of license	Timmins, Ontario
Branding	Le Loup 104.1
Slogan	La Voix du nord
Frequency	104.1 MHz (FM)
First air date	December 23, 1951
Format	hot adult contemporary (French)
ERP	3.5 kW
Class	A
Former callsigns	CFCL (1952-1990) CKOY (1990-2000)
Owner	Le5 Communications
Sister stations	CHYC-FM
Website	Le Loup 104.1

CHYK-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at FM 104.1 in Timmins, Ontario. It broadcasts a francophone hot adult contemporary format for the city's Franco-Ontarian community. It is owned by Le5 Communications, and branded as Le Loup 104.1.

CHYK and its Sudbury sister station CHYC are the only francophone commercial stations programmed entirely in Ontario. Apart from commercials and separate morning shows, the two stations in fact simulcast the same programming at almost all times, although both stations produce a portion of the shared broadcast schedule.

History

The station was originally established on December 23, 1951 by J. Conrad Lavigne, with the callsign CFCL at 580 kHz. It operated as a private affiliate of Radio-Canada's French radio network, and was one of the few private affiliate stations of a CBC radio network anywhere in Canada. CFLH in Hearst began broadcasting the same year. In 1956, Lavigne also established CFCL-TV in the city.

In 1957, CFLK began broadcasting in Kapuskasing. In 1960, CFCL moved from 580 to 620 kHz.

Lavigne's broadcast holdings were eventually merged into the Mid-Canada Communications system. When that company acquired several other radio stations in 1985, CFCL became a commercial station as part of the Mid-Canada Radio network, and disaffiliated from Radio-Canada.

Mid-Canada Radio was sold to the Pelmorex Radio Network in 1990. Because the radio and television station no longer had common ownership, the radio station's callsign was subsequently changed to CKOY. CFLH in Hearst later adopted the call sign CHOH, and was converted to FM in 1995,^[1] while CFLK in Kapuskasing adopted the call sign CHYK.

Pelmorex, in turn, sold its stations to the Haliburton Broadcasting Group in 1999. CKOY was converted to 104.1 FM, and took over the CHYK callsign from its rebroadcaster in Kapuskasing.^[2] The Kapuskasing rebroadcaster was in turn converted to FM in 2003 and later adopted its current callsign CHYX-FM.^[3]

In 2008, Haliburton announced a deal to sell the CHYC stations to Le5 Communications, a firm owned by Sudbury lawyer Paul Lefebvre. This deal was approved by the CRTC on October 31, 2008.^[4] Le5 Communications rebranded the station as Le Loup in early 2009.

In 2010, Le5 Communications also launched the weekly community newspaper L'Express de Timmins.^[5]

On March 2, 2012, Le5 Communications received approval from the CRTC to change the authorized contours of the station's rebroadcaster in Hearst, by changing the antenna radiation pattern from directional to non-directional, increasing the average effective radiated power (ERP) from 140 to 172 watts (maximum ERP from 140 to 221 watts), decreasing the effective height of antenna above average terrain from 56.6 to 43 metres and relocating the antenna site.^[6]

Transmitters

References

External links

• Le Loup 104.1
• History of CHYK at Canadian Communications Foundation
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CHYK-FM

Coordinates: 48°27′57″N 81°26′52″W / 48.46583°N 81.44778°W / 48.46583; -81.44778