CHYC-FM

CHYC-FM

City	Sudbury, Ontario
Branding	Le Loup 98.9
Slogan	La Voix du nord
Frequency	98.9 MHz (FM)
First air date	1957 (on AM) 2000 (on FM)
Format	hot adult contemporary (French)
ERP	1.4 kW 4.62 kW - approved September 28, 2011.
Class	B1
Callsign meaning	an available callsign that could be pronounced like the French word chic
Former callsigns	CFBR (1957-1990)
Owner	Le5 Communications
Sister stations	CHYK-FM, CHYQ-FM
Website	www.leloupfm.com/Sudbury

CHYC-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at FM 98.9 in Sudbury, Ontario. It broadcasts a francophone hot adult contemporary format for the city's franco-ontarian community. It is owned by Le5 Communications, and branded as Le Loup 98.9.

CHYC and its sister stations CHYK in Timmins and CHYQ in West Nipissing are the only francophone commercial stations programmed entirely in Ontario. Apart from commercials and separate morning shows, the three stations in fact simulcast the same programming at almost all times, although all three stations produce a portion of the shared broadcast schedule.

History

The station first aired in 1957 as AM 550 CFBR, a sister station to CHNO and a private affiliate of Radio-Canada. CHNO had previously been a bilingual station; when CFBR went to air, CHNO became full-time English. The FBR in the station's callsign stood for F. Baxter Ricard, who owned the stations with his wife Alma Ricard. The licensing of CFBR, which took over the Radio-Canada affiliation from CHNO, made Ricard the first commercial broadcaster in Canada licensed to operate two AM radio stations in the same city.^[1]

In 1969, CFBR and CHNO swapped frequencies. CHNO took over the 550 AM signal, and CFBR moved to 900. CFBR remained a Radio-Canada affiliate until the launch of CBON in 1978, and adopted a pop standards format thereafter. After losing the Radio-Canada affiliation, for a time the station's remaining audience was so small that its co-ownership with CHNO, the city's dominant English radio station at the time, was the only thing keeping it afloat.

In 1985, Ricard sold CFBR, CHNO and CJMX to Mid-Canada Radio.

The station adopted its current call sign and format in 1990, after the three stations were acquired by Pelmorex Radio Network. Pelmorex sold the stations in 1998, when Telemedia acquired CJMX, and 1999, when Haliburton Broadcasting Group acquired CHYC and CHNO. Haliburton subsequently converted both stations to FM after receiving approval from the CRTC on August 31, 1999.^[2] In 2000, the stations first aired on FM and discontinued their old AM signals. CHYC moved to 98.9 FM in early 2000 and simulcast on AM 900, until it left the air on March 31 of that year after the licensee resolved a technical problem relating to the implementation of the new FM transmitter.^[3]

Haliburton subsequently sold CHNO to Newcap Broadcasting in 2001. Despite no longer having common ownership, CHYC and CHNO continued to operate from the same studio facility at 493 Barrydowne Road in Sudbury.

In 2008, Haliburton announced a deal to sell the CHYC stations to Le5 Communications, a firm owned by Sudbury lawyer Paul Lefebvre. This deal was approved by the CRTC on October 31, 2008.^[4]

Le5 Communications rebranded the station as Le Loup 98.9 in early 2009, and moved the station to new studios at 100 Brian McKee Lane in downtown Sudbury. Musician and actor Stéphane Paquette also joined the station as an afternoon host.

In 2011, Le5 Communications filed an application to change the station's authorized signal contours by increasing the effective radiated power from 1,400 to 4,620 watts (from class A to class B1) and by increasing the effective height of the antenna above average terrain from 165.3 to 181.9 metres).^[5] The CRTC approved Le5's application on September 28, 2011.^[6]

The company also purchased Sudbury's existing francophone community newspaper Le Voyageur in 2011.^[7]

Rebroadcasters

A community group in Chapleau, Formation Plus, holds an independent license to rebroadcast the signal of CHYC-FM. This transmitter operates on 95.9 FM in Chapleau with the call sign CHAP-FM.^[8]

References

↑
↑ CRTC Decision 99-404
↑ Decision CRTC 2000-71
↑ CRTC Decision 2008-296
↑ Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2011-314
↑ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-627
↑ "Sudbury's French newspaper Le Voyageur sold". Points North (CBCS-FM), May 20, 2011.
↑ CRTC Decision 2007-70

External links

Radio stations in Greater Sudbury, Sudbury District and Manitoulin District, Ontario

Greater Sudbury	CBBS 90.1 CBBX 90.9 CICS 91.7 CJRQ 92.7 CIGM 93.5 CJTK 95.5 CKLU 96.7 CBON 98.1 CHYC 98.9 CBCS 99.9 CKJC 101.7 CHNO 103.9 CJMX 105.3 Defunct CKBB 102.9 CKSO 101.1

Chapleau	CBCU 89.9 CBON-28 91.9 CFJW 93.7 CHAP 95.9 CJWA-1 100.7 Defunct CHIM-8 92.7

Espanola	CBON-7 94.9 CJJM 99.3 Defunct CKNS 930

French River	CKUC 102.7

Manitoulin Island	CHYF 88.9 CHEI 89.9 CBCE 97.5 CFRM 100.7 CJTK-2 102.1 CHAW 103.1

Weatheradio Canada	XLJ898 162.400 (Sudbury) XMJ375 162.475 (Espanola-Little Current)

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Ici Musique	CBCX Calgary CBAX Halifax CBAL Moncton CBFX Montreal CBOX Ottawa CBVX Quebec City CBRX Rimouski CBJX Saguenay CBBX Sudbury CJBC Toronto CBUX Vancouver CKSB Winnipeg

Former private affiliates	CFRG Gravelbourg CFLM La Tuque CFNS Saskatoon CFBR Sudbury CKLD Thetford Mines CFCL Timmins CFDA Victoriaville CKVM Ville-Marie

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Hot Adult Contemporary radio stations in the Province of Ontario

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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 ♦: Francophone stations

Coordinates: 46°31′24″N 80°59′59″W / 46.52333°N 80.99972°W / 46.52333; -80.99972

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