CKER-FM

CKER-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 101.7 FM in Edmonton, Alberta. The station airs a multilingual programming format branded as 101.7 World FM and is owned by Rogers Media.

CKER-FM
CityEdmonton, Alberta
Frequency101.7 MHz (FM)
BrandingWorld FM
Programming
Formatmultilingual
Ownership
OwnerRogers Media
(Rogers Media, Inc.)
Sister stationsRadio: CHBN-FM, CHDI-FM
TV: CKEM-DT, CJEO-DT
History
First air date1980
Former frequencies1480 AM (1980-1994)
101.9 FM (1994-2006)
Call sign meaningEdmonton Radio
Technical information
ClassC
ERP100,000 watts horizontal
24,000 watts vertical
HAAT272 meters (892 ft)
Transmitter coordinates53°31′54.84″N 113°46′51.6″W
Links
Website101.7 World FM

History

CKER-FM first hit the airwaves on November 1, 1980 on the AM dial as Edmonton's first and only multilingual station. It was owned by O.K. Radio Group which is headed up by Roger Charest and Stu Morton. The station operated at 1480 AM with a broadcasting power of 10,000 watts.

In 1982 O.K. Radio Group spun off CKER into a separate company- CKER Radio Ltd., a company that was headed up by Roger Charest as well as other investors.

In 1994, CKER was granted approval by the CRTC [1] to move to the FM band at 101.9 MHz with an ERP of 64,000 watts, on a frequency previously used by CKO from 1978 to 1989. This would later be increased to 100,000 watts. On January 18, 2006, CKER received approval to move from 101.9 to 101.7 MHz in an effort to alleviate interference that was being caused to other stations.[2]

On November 29, 2006, CKER-FM was sold to Rogers Communications who also purchased other stations owned by O.K. Radio Group.[3] Rogers pledged to keep the station the same, with a multilingual format and the current branding of World FM.

Programming

CKER currently airs programming in over 10 languages serving over 12 ethnic groups. It has programming in the following languages: Arabic, Cantonese, Filipino, German, Italian, Mandarin, Polish, Punjabi, Spanish and Ukrainian.

gollark: Writing pages upon pages of random nonsense to express something like a paragraph of content is very unpleasant.
gollark: I once wrote a 750-word essay on a poem which was 6 lines long.
gollark: A-level is hopefully going to be better, since I actually get to pick subjects I like and people who are bad at them won't be doing them.
gollark: Maths is good, though - my maths set has a really good teacher and we do (well, did when school was running) interesting and challenging stuff a lot of the time without repeating the same topic over and over again.
gollark: English is awful because we mostly overanalyze literature and write essays and stuff, but we did writing one time and that was fun.

References
  1. Decision CRTC 94-618
  2. Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2006-8
  3. "Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2006-651". CRTC. Retrieved 21 March 2017.


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