CHMS-FM

CHMS-FM
City of license Bancroft, Ontario
Branding Moose FM
Frequency 97.7 MHz (FM)
First air date 1975 (AM)
2001 (FM)
Format hot adult contemporary
ERP 50 kW
Class C1
Callsign meaning C H Moose
Owner Vista Broadcast Group
Website www.mybancroftnow.com

CHMS-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 97.7 FM in Bancroft, Ontario. The station airs a hot adult contemporary format using the on-air branding Moose FM, and is owned by Vista Broadcast Group.

The station originally began broadcasting as CJNH in 1975, on the AM band at 1240 kHz and partially rebroadcasting CJBQ in Belleville to the south. CJNH was given approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on March 2, 2001 to convert to FM,[1] and moved to the FM band at 97.7 FM in May 2001 with the new callsign CHMS.

On April 23, 2012 Vista Broadcast Group, which owns a number of radio stations in western Canada, announced a deal to acquire Haliburton Broadcasting, in cooperation with Westerkirk Capital.[2] The transaction was approved by the CRTC on October 19, 2012.[3]

References

  1. Decision CRTC 2001-158
  2. "Westerkirk Capital Acquires Vista and Haliburton Broadcast Groups". Broadcaster, April 26, 2012.
  3. Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-577 Various radio programming undertakings – Acquisition of assets, CRTC, October 19, 2012

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Coordinates: 45°04′12″N 77°58′14″W / 45.07000°N 77.97056°W / 45.07000; -77.97056

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