CHMS-FM

CHMS-FM
City of license	Bancroft, Ontario
Branding	Moose FM
Frequency	97.7 MHz (FM)
First air date	1975 (AM) 2001 (FM)
Format	hot adult contemporary
ERP	50 kW
Class	C1
Callsign meaning	C H Moose
Owner	Vista Broadcast Group
Website	97.7 Moose FM

CHMS-FM is a hot adult contemporary Canadian radio station at 97.7 FM in Bancroft, Ontario, using the on air branding Moose FM, owned by the Vista Broadcast Group.

The station originally began broadcasting as CJNH in 1975, on the AM band at 1240 kHz and partially rebroadcasting CJBQ in Belleville to the south. CJNH was given approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on March 2, 2001 to convert to FM,^[1] and moved to the FM band at 97.7 FM in May 2001 with the new callsign CHMS.

On April 23, 2012 Vista Broadcast Group, which owns a number of radio stations in western Canada, announced a deal to acquire Haliburton Broadcasting, in cooperation with Westerkirk Capital.^[2] The transaction was approved by the CRTC on October 19, 2012.^[3]

References

↑ Decision CRTC 2001-158
↑ "Westerkirk Capital Acquires Vista and Haliburton Broadcast Groups". Broadcaster, April 26, 2012.
↑ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-577 Various radio programming undertakings – Acquisition of assets, CRTC, October 19, 2012

External links

Vista Broadcast Group

Corporate directors	Margot Micallef (President & CEO)

Radio stations (by call-sign)	CFBG CFBK CFBV CFCP CFFM CFGM CFIF CFLZ CFNA CFNI CFPW CFRI CFSF CFXN CFZN CHBY CHGK CHMS CHMT CHNV CHPB CIQC CIRX CIVH CJCD CJCI CJCS CJED CJFB CJJM CJSU CJUI CKAP CKAY CKBX CKCQ CKHT CKJN CKVV CKLM CKLP CKPP CKNR CKQR CKWL

See also	Haliburton Broadcasting Group

Hot Adult Contemporary radio stations in the Province of Ontario

By frequency	89.5 92.1 93.1 93.3 96.7 97.1 97.7 98.3 98.9♦ 97.1♦ 99.5 99.7 99.9 101.5 101.7 103.1 103.5 104.1♦ 104.5 104.5 105.1 105.3 105.3 105.5 105.7 106.1 106.5 107.5

By callsign	CFBG CFBK CFCA CFHK CFLY CFLZ CFNO CHMS CHUM CHYC♦ CHYK♦ CHYQ♦ CHYR CIDC CIGL CIMJ CISS CIXK CJKL CJMI CJRL CJTT CJUK CKMB CKNX CKPC CKPT CKSG

By city	Bancroft Barrie Belleville Bracebridge Brantford Cobourg Huntsville Guelph Kenora Kingston Kirkland Lake Kitchener Leamington London Marathon Niagara Falls Orangeville Ottawa Owen Sound Peterborough Strathroy Sudbury♦ Temiskaming Shores Thunder Bay Timmins♦ Toronto Wingham

Ontario radio markets Cornwall & Eastern Ontario Hamilton-Niagara Kenora District First Nations Radio Kingston-Brockville Kitchener-Waterloo London Midwestern Ontario North Bay Ottawa Parry Sound-Muskoka-Haliburton Pembroke/Ottawa Valley Peterborough Quinte/Belleville-Trenton Rainy River Simcoe County/Barrie/Orillia Sault Ste. Marie Sudbury Thunder Bay Timiskaming Timmins Toronto Windsor-Chatham-Sarnia See also List of radio stations in Ontario ♦: Francophone stations

Radio stations in Kingston, Frontenac County, Leeds and Grenville County and Bancroft, Ontario

Kingston	CKVI 91.9 CBBK 92.9 CKXC 93.5 CFMK 96.3 CFLY 98.3 CKLC 98.9 CJBC 99.5 CFRC 101.9 CKWS 104.3 CIKR 105.7 CIRJ 106.3 CBCK 107.5

Brockville	CBOB 91.9 CIIB 94.5 CKJJ-2 99.9 CBOF-7 102.1 CJPT 103.7 CFJR 104.9

Central Frontenac	CJCE 93.7

Kemptville	CKVV 97.5

Loyalist	CJAI 92.1

Napanee	CKYM 88.7

Bancroft	CHMS 97.7 CBLA-5 99.3 CKJJ-4 103.5

Cape Vincent, New York	WLYK 102.7

Ontario radio markets Cornwall & Eastern Ontario Hamilton-Niagara Kenora District First Nations Radio Kingston-Brockville Kitchener-Waterloo London Midwestern Ontario North Bay Ottawa Parry Sound-Muskoka-Haliburton Pembroke/Ottawa Valley Peterborough Quinte/Belleville-Trenton Rainy River Simcoe County/Barrie/Orillia Sault Ste. Marie Sudbury Thunder Bay Timiskaming Timmins Toronto Windsor-Chatham-Sarnia See also Watertown Radio North Country Radio

Coordinates: 45°04′12″N 77°58′14″W / 45.07000°N 77.97056°W / 45.07000; -77.97056