CINA-FM

CINA-FM

City of license	Windsor, Ontario
Broadcast area	Windsor, Ontario Metro Detroit
Branding	102.3FM CINA Radio
Frequency	102.3 MHz
First air date	September 6, 2012
Format	multilingual
ERP	1900 watts average 5,000 watts peak
HAAT	55.5 meters (182 ft)
Class	A
Owner	Neeti P. Ray
Sister stations	CINA
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	www.cinafm.com

CINA-FM is a radio station broadcasting a mixture of English language and ethnic/multilingual music and programming on 102.3 FM/MHz in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

The station broadcasts with an antenna aimed toward the northwest and southeast, to protect nearby stations on the same frequency: CHST-FM in London; WGRT in Port Huron, Michigan; WPOS-FM in Toledo, Ohio and WFXN-FM in Galion, Ohio. In consequence, the coverage area reaches out to ethnic communities in both Windsor and Detroit, Michigan.

History

In 2008, Neeti P. Ray, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated, received approval in part from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to operate a new ethnic FM radio station (CJNR-FM) to serve Windsor at 95.9 MHz. ^[1] However, the 95.9 MHz frequency was awarded to Blackburn Radio's CJWF-FM which launched in November of 2009.

In 2009, the Commission approved the application by the CBC to convert CBC Radio One outlet CBE from 1550 kHz to 97.5 MHz,^[2] making their plans to install a nested transmitter at 102.3^[3] obsolete. As a result, the 102.3 MHz frequency became available by September 2011.

former CINA FM logo

On December 13, 2011, Ray filed an application to allow CJNR-FM to operate at 102.3 MHz; this was approved on March 2, 2012.^[4]

The station launched on September 6, 2012, having changed its call-letters to CINA-FM (after Toronto sister station CINA AM).

Programming

CINA FM's airs programming in a variety of language including: Arabic, Cantonese, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish and Ukrainian. 80% of the daily programming is in Arabic.

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Radio stations in Southwestern Ontario (excluding American stations)

Essex County	Windsor CKWW 580 CKLW 800 CBEF 1550 CIMX 88.7 CBE 89.9 NEW 90.5 CIDR 93.9 CJWF 95.9 CBEW 97.5 CJAM 99.1 CKUE-1 100.7 CINA 102.3 CJBC-1 103.9 CBEF-2 105.5 Leamington CBEW-FM-1 91.9 CJSP 92.7 CHYR 96.7 CBEF-1 103.1 VAZ533 162.475 Point Pelee National Park CJPP 90.7

Chatham-Kent	Chatham CFCO 630 AM & 92.9 FM CBEE 88.1 CKGW 89.3 CKSY 94.3 CKUE 95.1 CKXS 99.1 CKBK 104.3 CZT836 162.525¹

Lambton County	Kettle Point CKTI 107.7 Sarnia CHOK 1070 AM & 103.9 FM CBEG 90.3 CBEF-3 98.3 CFGX 99.9 CKCI 103.3 CHKS 106.3 XJV492 162.400 Walpole Island CFRZ 98.3

Weatheradio Canada	XJV492 162.400 (Sarnia-Oil Springs) VAZ533 162.475 (Windsor-Leamington) CZT836 162.525 (Chatham-Kent)¹

¹CP granted, to air soon Ontario radio markets Cornwall & Eastern Ontario Hamilton-Niagara Kenora District First Nations Radio Kingston-Brockville Kitchener-Waterloo London Midwestern Ontario North Bay Ottawa Parry Sound-Muskoka-Haliburton Pembroke/Ottawa Valley Peterborough Quinte/Belleville-Trenton Rainy River Simcoe County/Barrie/Orillia Sault Ste. Marie Sudbury Thunder Bay Timiskaming Timmins Toronto Windsor-Chatham-Sarnia See also List of radio stations in Ontario Detroit The Thumb Toledo Sandusky Cleveland Radio

Coordinates: 42°17′50″N 83°01′31″W / 42.29722°N 83.02528°W / 42.29722; -83.02528

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