CHRC-FM

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CHRC-FM
Broadcast area Clarence-Rockland
Frequency 92.5 MHz (FM)
BrandingHot Country 92.5
Programming
Format Country
Affiliations Compass Media Networks
Premiere Networks
Ownership
Owner Evanov Communications
(Sale pending to Radio communautaire Cornwall-Alexandria)
CKHK-FM, CFWC-FM, CKDX-FM
History
First air date
October 15, 2013
Call sign meaning
CH Rockland/Clarence (broadcast area)
Technical information
Class A
ERP 333 watts
HAAT 54.8 meters (180 ft)
Links
Webcast Listen Live
Website hotcountry925.ca

CHRC-FM (92.5 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Rockland, Ontario, Canada. The station is owned by Evanov Communications through licensee Dufferin Communications Inc. It broadcasts a country format and is branded as Hot Country 92.5. Some programming is simulcast with co-owned CKHK-FM in Hawkesbury.

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CHRC has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 333 watts. It is on the same channel as 100,000 watt CKBE-FM Montreal, less than 100 kilometres away. That may cause interference in some areas between CHRC and CKBE-FM. These interference problems were addressed in the station's paperwork with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), which approved the application on February 25, 2013.

History

Former logo as Jewel 92.5 Jewel 92.5.png
Former logo as Jewel 92.5

On February 25, 2013, the CRTC approved an application for a new FM radio station in Rockland, Ontario by Dufferin Communications, a subsidiary of Evanov Radio Group. Evanov proposed an adult contemporary station broadcasting on 92.5 FM with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 333 watts. Cogeco and Evanov accepted that would be a small zone of interference between the new station and CKBE-FM in Montreal. [1]

In June 2013, the station was assigned the call letters CHRC-FM. [2] That call sign was previously used by a now-defunct radio station in Quebec City. On October 15, 2013, CHRC-FM launched with a soft adult contemporary format branded as Jewel 92.5; its lineup featured the syndicated John Tesh Radio Show and nightly blocks of adult standards (The Lounge) and classical music (The International Concert Series). [3] [4]

In May 2021, CHRC-FM flipped to country music as Hot Country 92.5. [5]

On September 5, 2024, Evanov announced that the station, along with CJWL-FM in Ottawa and CKHK-FM in Hawkesbury, would close effective September 20, 2024, due to increased competition, changing listener habits, and economic conditions brought upon by the COVID-19 pandemic. [6] However, on September 19, Evanov announced that it had reached agreements to sell all three stations instead, with an agreement to sell CHRC and CKHK to Radio communautaire Cornwall-Alexandria—the cooperative that owns CHOD-FM 92.1 Go FM in Cornwall—pending CRTC approval. While CHOD is a francophone station, it was stated that the new owner would continue operating both stations with English-language programming. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2013-94, English-language FM radio station in Clarence-Rockland, CRTC, February 25, 2013
  2. ↑ "5/6/2013". Fybush Media. Fybush Media. May 3, 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
  3. ↑ "On Air Schedule". Jewel 92.5. Evanov Radio. 2017. Archived from the original on 6 March 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "CHRC-FM". Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  5. ↑ Thiessen, Connie (2021-05-03). "Evanov rebrands four of its 'The Jewel' stations in Ontario & Quebec". Broadcast Dialogue. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  6. ↑ "Evanov to shutter three FM stations". Broadcast Dialogue. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
  7. ↑ Thiessen, Connie (2024-09-19). "GO FM to acquire two Evanov stations set for closure". Broadcast Dialogue. Retrieved 2024-09-23.

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