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

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