Yesterday, CINA 1650 launched it's test signal. The station will be geared towards Toronto's large South Asian community. The announcements for the test are in English and the stations name is pronounced as "seena". So all of Toronto's x-band allotments are full, which include 1610, 1650 and 1690.
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Brand new X-bander in Toronto
- Thread starter mimo
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Ok, help me out on this one:
Once apon a time, a long time ago (5? 6? 8 years ago?)
CHIN AM radio wanted something in the 1600's but decided it wasn't good enough. (They went with an FM repeater instead)
Isn't 1650 the same spot on the dial that CHIN AM radio rejected?
Why did Chin reject it if it's perfectly good for the South Asian community?
Once apon a time, a long time ago (5? 6? 8 years ago?)
CHIN AM radio wanted something in the 1600's but decided it wasn't good enough. (They went with an FM repeater instead)
Isn't 1650 the same spot on the dial that CHIN AM radio rejected?
Why did Chin reject it if it's perfectly good for the South Asian community?
Yes, unfortunately we can hear this station down here in Chicago quite well after dark... and often before dark as well. (I totally hate that god-awful wailing "music" - apologies to anyone who is "South Asian" and likes it).
This is the problem with the X-band; lousy daytime coverage and even worse local nighttime coverage, but enough skywave to foul the frequency for thousands of km's at night. The x-band has become the new graveyard band; all of the channels are starting to sound like 1230, 1240, 1450, and 1490 around here. Of course, filling it up with IBOC and those dreadful sounding TIS transmitters running digital loops playing back information that is two months out of date doesn't really help either.
This is the problem with the X-band; lousy daytime coverage and even worse local nighttime coverage, but enough skywave to foul the frequency for thousands of km's at night. The x-band has become the new graveyard band; all of the channels are starting to sound like 1230, 1240, 1450, and 1490 around here. Of course, filling it up with IBOC and those dreadful sounding TIS transmitters running digital loops playing back information that is two months out of date doesn't really help either.
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Audioguy, you get CINA all the way out there in Chicago? Darn you! I’ve been trying to pull that in here in Oswego, NY for months. I love South Asian music, you see (actually, I like any music from Asia), so it would be a skywave catch I’d actually listen to out here.
I believe that CINA is Toronto’s only originating South Asian station. I know there are shows on both CHIN stations, and CIAO used to have South Asian programming, but I think CINA is the only fulltime South Asian property, outside of American licensed WTOR (770), to serve the South Asians in Toronto.
--The Radio Kid
(Oswego, NY.)
My email: [email protected].
I believe that CINA is Toronto’s only originating South Asian station. I know there are shows on both CHIN stations, and CIAO used to have South Asian programming, but I think CINA is the only fulltime South Asian property, outside of American licensed WTOR (770), to serve the South Asians in Toronto.
--The Radio Kid
(Oswego, NY.)
My email: [email protected].
Actually there's an FM at 101.3 that's programmed for south Asians. Then again, it's FM and there are multipath issues in Toronto. CINA makes it here to Ottawa most nights. CIAO still has south asian programming, but not full time, and so does CJMR. I'm not sure about CIRV 88.9, or CHIN FM. CIAO is interesting overnight, especially around 3:30 in the morning, they have Koranic programming for the Urdu speaking community, with live prayer and readings (in Arabic, but the announcers speak Urdu when not in prayer), and then at 4 they switch to Hindi, with a few Devotional songs and blessings to launch the show before switching into BBC world news in Hindi for a few headlines.
1430 AM is the sister station to CIRV FM here in Toronto, and they too, *might* also have some Asian music, but I've recently discovered their mornings to consist of Russian programming, so I'm honestly not sure what to tell you.
Here in the Vancouver market we have 4 fulltime South Asian stations. 2 licensed to Vancouver itself and 2 more beaming to Canada from Whatcom County in Washington State.
CKYE 93.1 Vancouver (Red FM):
http://www.redfm.ca/
CJRJ 1200 Vancouver (RJ 1200):
http://www.rj1200.com/
KRPI 1550 Ferndale, WA (Shere E Punjab Radio):
http://sherepunjabradio.ca/
KVRI 1600 Blaine, WA (Radio India):
http://www.radioindialtd.com/index1.htm
I might add those 2 U.S. border stations are really serving their local communities well as the South Asian population in Whatcom County in all likelihood can be counted on one hand.
CKYE 93.1 Vancouver (Red FM):
http://www.redfm.ca/
CJRJ 1200 Vancouver (RJ 1200):
http://www.rj1200.com/
KRPI 1550 Ferndale, WA (Shere E Punjab Radio):
http://sherepunjabradio.ca/
KVRI 1600 Blaine, WA (Radio India):
http://www.radioindialtd.com/index1.htm
I might add those 2 U.S. border stations are really serving their local communities well as the South Asian population in Whatcom County in all likelihood can be counted on one hand.
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