CJMR
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CJMR is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts multicultural programming at AM 1320. Although officially licensed to Mississauga, Ontario, it currently broadcasts from studios in Oakville. CJMR's studios are located on Church Street in downtown Oakville, while its transmitters are located along Dundas Street West near Third Line Road on the northwest side of Oakville.
Originally a daytimer on AM 1190, CJMR was launched in 1974, by CHWO Radio Limited (now Whiteoaks Communications Group), the owners of CHWO.[1] On January 18, 1990, at 5Script error: No such module "String".p.m. the station moved to its current frequency[2] (vacated by CFGM) and began a 24-hour broadcast schedule. Formerly a mixture of multilingual and Christian programming, CJMR moved to exclusively multilingual programming in 2001, when the religious programming moved to the new CJYE.
In 1986, the station was denied a licence to move to the FM dial.[3] CJMR and CHMB are the only stations in Canada which broadcast on 1320 AM.
CJMR's programming is mainly South Asian (Hindi and Punjabi) with some Croatian, Dutch, Filipino, Gujarati, Italian, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Ukrainian and Urdu programming in the evenings and on weekends.
References
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- ↑ Robyn Burnett and Christopher Giardino, Prime Time Radio: How Jean and Howard Caine Built a Radio Dynasty (Template:ISBN). ECW Press, 2006.
- ↑ Decision CRTC 89-699
- ↑ Decision CRTC 86-240
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External links
- CJMR 1320
- CJMR at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the Canadian Communications Foundation
- CJMR in the REC Canadian station database
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- 1974 establishments in Ontario
- Asian-Canadian culture in Ontario
- Hindi-language radio stations
- Indian diaspora mass media
- Indo-Canadian culture
- Mass media in Mississauga
- Multicultural and ethnic radio stations in Canada
- Radio stations established in 1974
- Radio stations in the Regional Municipality of Peel
- Punjabi-language radio stations
- Urdu-language radio stations
- Whiteoaks Communications Group