CHPO-FM

CHPO-FM is a new radio station which was announced as broadcasting a classic rock format on the frequency of 93.1 MHz/FM in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. The station will be owned by Golden West Broadcasting, the owners of CFRY AM 920.

The owners received approval by the CRTC on October 2, 2013, which will replace CFRY AM's current repeater, CFRY-FM-1. The new station will broadcast using the same facility and parameters as CFRY-FM-1, with a maximum effective radiated power of 27,000 watts (non-directional antenna with an effective height of antenna above average terrain of 73.5 metres).^[1]

The launch date for the new station is yet to be announced; when it does, it was planned to broadcast as CFRY-FM, while it original parent station, CFRY AM, continues its country music format.^[2] It was later revealed that the station would switch to a classic rock format under the new call letters of CHPO-FM, ending its 19-year FM simmulcast as CFRY-1-FM.^[3] However, the station instead launched as Country 93.1 FM.

References

External links

• CFRY
• Existing Manitoba Radio Stations - Canadian Communications Foundation
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CFRY
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CHPO