CIRF
City | Brampton, Ontario |
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Broadcast area | Greater Toronto Area |
Programming | |
Format | multilingual |
Ownership | |
Owner | Radio Humsafar |
History | |
First air date | 2020 |
Technical information | |
Power | 1,000 watts (day) 40 watts (night) |
Links | |
Website | radiohumsafar.com |
CIRF, is a Canadian radio station which operates a multilingual format on the frequency of 1350 kHz on the AM band.
History[]
On October 21, 2015, the CRTC approved Radio Humsafar's application to operate a new ethnic commercial AM radio station at Brampton on the frequency of 1350 kHz. [1]
Prior to the station’s sign on, the original callsign was to be CFKA but changed to its current callsign. The station also had a number of technical changes some were denied. [2] [3] [4]
The station began testing in December 2019.
References[]
- ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2015-471, Licensing of new radio stations to serve Brampton, CRTC, October 21, 2015
- ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2018-385, Ethnic commercial AM radio station – Technical changes, CRTC, October 3, 2018
- ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2019-248, Ethnic commercial AM radio station in Brampton – Technical changes, CRTC, July 9, 2019
- ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2019-351, Ethnic commercial AM radio station in Brampton – Technical changes and extension of implementation deadline, CRTC, October 18, 2019
External links[]
- Radio Humsafar
- CIRF History - Canadian Communications Foundation
- CIRF in the REC Canadian station database
Categories:
- Radio stations in the Regional Municipality of Peel
- Mass media in Brampton
- Multicultural and ethnic radio stations in Canada
- Radio stations established in 2019
- 2019 establishments in Ontario
- Ontario radio station stubs