CJLL-FM: Difference between revisions

| airdate = [[2003 in radio|2003]]

| format = multi[[Multi-language]]

| webcast = [http://www.chinradioottawa.com/ottawa979.html WindowsListen Media streamLive]

| website = [http://www.chinradioottawa.com/ www.chinradioottawa.com]

'''CJLL-FM''' is a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[radio station]], which broadcasts multilingual community programming at 97.9 [[FM radiobroadcasting|FM]] in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], with studios located on [[Wellington Street (Ottawa)|Wellington Street]] West in Ottawa, while its transmitter is located in [[downtown Ottawa]]. Although CJLL has a very different call sign than its Toronto sibling stations [[CHIN (AM)|CHIN]] and [[CHIN-FM]], it shares their branding as '''CHIN Ottawa'''.

On October 4, 2001, the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission|CRTC]] approved the application by [[CHIN Radio/TV International]], the owner of the multilingual stations [[CHIN (AM)|CHIN]] and [[CHIN-FM]] in [[Toronto]], for a broadcasting licence for a specialty FM ethnic radio station in the [[National Capital Region (Canada)|National Capital Region]] at 97.9&nbsp;MHz.<ref>[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2001/DB2001-625.htm Decision CRTC 2001-625], New ethnic FM station for Ottawa/Hull, ''CRTC'', October 4, 2001</ref> The station was launched in 2003 out of studios at 30 Murray Street in the [[ByWard Market]] neighborhood,<ref>{{cite web | title=CJLL-FM | url=https://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listing_and_histories/radio/cjll-fm | work=History of Canadian Broadcasting | publisher=[[Canadian Communications Foundation]] | access-date=June 13, 2020 }}</ref> which later became home to the [[Embassy of the Philippines, Ottawa|Philippine Embassy in Ottawa]].

CJLL airs programming in over 20 languages, serving up to 40 different cultural communities. Mornings feature programming primarily in [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and [[Italian language|Italian]], while [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and Chinese ([[Cantonese]] & [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]]) programming airs in the evenings. On evenings and weekends CHIN airs programming in [[Caribbean]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[German language|German]], [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Haitian Creole language|Haitian]], [[Hindi language|Hindi]], [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], [[Korean language|Korean]], [[Farsi language|Persian]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], [[Romanian language|Romanian]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]] and [[Urdu language|Urdu]] languages.

* [http://www.chinradioottawa.com/ CHIN Radio Ottawa]