CHIM-FM

CHIM-FM is a Canadian radio station, which previously broadcast 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 were pronounced, on air, as "see Him."

Programming

The station's best-known program was 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. The transmitter operates at 93.1 FM.^[6]

In 2000, CHIM's application to add a transmitter in Toronto, Ontario at 106.3 MHz was denied.^[7][8] In 2001, CHIM's application to add a transmitter in Vancouver, British Columbia at 92.9 MHz was denied.^[9] CHIM's application to add a transmitter at 102.3 MHz in Cochrane, Ontario was denied as well in 2008.^[10] An unrelated radio station, CFCJ-FM 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.

Closure and future

The station's licence renewal application was denied by the CRTC on October 23, 2012 due to regulatory violations. As a result, CHIM-FM was ordered to cease broadcasting by the end of the broadcast day on November 30, 2012.^[11] Despite the FM stations' going off air, CHIM remains active via an online stream on their website, while the station's owners have been trying to bring the station back to FM radio, as bolstered by a late 2012 letter writing campaign.^[12] The last song to play on CHIM as an FM station was "Emotional" by Christian Quast, a second of which continues to constantly loop on CHIM's former frequencies.

In September 2014, CHIM can be heard in Timmins at 1710 kHz on the AM broadcast band. In 2015, CHIM plans to expand its Christian radio service to Sudbury (1600 AM), Parry Sound, Orillia, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. ^[13]

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. These stations were unaffected by the CRTC decision, and remain on air.

According to the CHIM website, Hearst is listed as CFCL-FM 95.5 and Smooth Rock Falls CKSO-FM 101.9.

Notes

On March 30, 2015, the CRTC denied an application by William Rowe, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated, to operate an English-language commercial FM specialty Christian music radio station in Timmins, which would have occupied CHIM-FM's former frequencies in northern Ontario and Red Deer. On the same date, the CRTC approved an application by Eternacom Inc. to add a new FM transmitter at Timmins to rebroadcast the programming of CJTK-FM Sudbury which, as with CHIM-FM, broadcast a Christian music format; this transmitter will broadcast at 105.5 MHz. ^[14]

References

External links

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

Christian radio stations in Canada Newfoundland and Labrador Mount Pearl: VOAR 1210 St. John's: VOWR 800 Prince Edward Island Charlottetown: CIOG 91.3 Nova Scotia Halifax: CJLU 93.9 CIRP 94.7 Truro: CINU 106.3 New Brunswick Blackville: CJFY 107.7 Fredericton: CIXN 96.5 Moncton: CITA 105.1 CKOE 107.3 Saint John: CINB 96.1 Quebec Brompton: CJRF 93.1 Cookshire-Eaton: CILA 88.1 Montreal: CIRA 91.3 Quebec City: CION 90.9 Rouyn-Noranda: CHIC 88.7 Scotstown: CHPV 103.7 Sherbrooke: CFPP 88.1 Ontario Apsley: CFSH 92.9 Barrie: CJLF 100.3 Belleville: CKJJ 102.3 Brantford: CFWC 93.9 Chatham: CKGW 89.3 Godfrey: CJCE 93.7 Kitchener: CJTW 94.3 London: CHJX 105.9 Oakville: CJYE 1250 Ottawa: CJVN 92.7, CHRI 99.1 St. Thomas: VF8016 90.1 Sudbury: CJTK 95.5 Thunder Bay: CJOA 95.1 Woodstock: CJFH 94.3 Manitoba Winnipeg: CHVN 95.1 Saskatchewan Nipawin: CIOT 104.1 Saskatoon: CFAQ 100.3 Yorkton: CJJC 100.5 Alberta Calgary: CJLI 700 CJSI 88.9 Drayton Valley: CIDV 90.3 Edmonton: CJCA 930 CJRY 105.9 Grande Prairie: CJGY 96.3 Lethbridge: CKVN 98.1 Medicine Hat: CJLT 93.7 Wetaskiwin: CIHS 93.5 British Columbia Prince Rupert: CIAJ 100.7 Northern Canada Whitehorse: CIAY 100.7 See also: List of Christian radio stations in Canada

Coordinates: 48°27′01″N 81°18′03″W / 48.45028°N 81.30074°W / 48.45028; -81.30074