CJLL-FM
CJLL-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts multilingual community programming at 97.9 FM in Ottawa, Ontario, with studios located on Wellington Street West in Ottawa, while its transmitter is located in downtown Ottawa.
City | Ottawa, Ontario |
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Broadcast area | National Capital Region |
Frequency | 97.9 MHz (FM) |
Branding | CHIN Ottawa |
Programming | |
Format | multi-language |
Ownership | |
Owner | CHIN Radio/TV International (Radio 1540 Limited) |
History | |
First air date | 2003 |
Call sign meaning | C Johnny BarbaLinardo Lombardi (company founder) |
Technical information | |
Class | B1 |
ERP | 6.77 kW |
HAAT | 117.5 m |
Links | |
Webcast | Windows Media stream |
Website | www.chinradioottawa.com |
History
On October 4, 2001, the CRTC approved the application by CHIN Radio/TV International, the owner of the multilingual stations CHIN and CHIN-FM in Toronto, for a broadcasting licence for a specialty FM ethnic radio station in the National Capital Region at 97.9 MHz.[1] The station was launched in 2003 out of studios at 30 Murray Street in the ByWard Market neighborhood,[2] which today houses the Philippine Embassy in Ottawa. Although CJLL has a very different call sign than its Toronto sibling stations, it shares their branding as CHIN Ottawa.
CJLL airs programming in over 20 languages, serving up to 40 different cultural communities. Mornings feature programming primarily in Arabic and Italian, while Spanish and Chinese (Cantonese & Mandarin) programming airs in the evenings. On evenings and weekends CHIN airs programming in Caribbean, Dutch, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian, Hindi, Hungarian, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian and Urdu.
As of November 6, 2011, CJLL-FM was one of the radio stations that simulcasts the programs of China Radio International, a state-run radio broadcaster in the People's Republic of China.[3]
On February 10, 2016, CJLL-FM has dropped the simulcast of China Radio International in the evening and overnight hours and replaced it with dance music formatted programming originating from an internet broadcaster "DJFM Toronto."
References
- Decision CRTC 2001-625, New ethnic FM station for Ottawa/Hull, CRTC, October 4, 2001
- "CJLL-FM". History of Canadian Broadcasting. Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
- Relays Across America
External links
- CHIN Radio Ottawa
- CJLL-FM history – Canadian Communications Foundation
- CJLL-FM in the REC Canadian station database