CHMT-FM

Infobox Radio Station


name = CHMT
airdate = 2001
frequency = 93.1 MHz (FM)
area = Timmins, Ontario
format = adult hits
owner = Haliburton Broadcasting Group
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branding = Moose FM
slogan =
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website = [http://www.moosefm.com/chmt1/index.php CHMT-FM]
callsign_meaning = CH Mix Timmins ("MIX" the original branding from 2001-2002)

CHMT-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 93.1 FM in Timmins, Ontario. The station, owned by Haliburton Broadcasting Group, broadcasts a adult hits format as Moose FM. The Haliburton Broadcasting Group was licenced by the CRTC in February 2001 to open up a new English language commercial FM radio station in Timmins. [ [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2001/DB2001-48.htm Decision CRTC 2001-48] ] The station originally launched in 2001 as an adult contemporary station branded as Mix 93. Some contemporary hit radio musical selections were dayparted into evening and overnight periods. However, around the same time as CHMT's launch in 2001, Telemedia moved the competing CKGB to FM as well, flipping from a country to an adult contemporary format. Briefly, CHMT responded by playing at least one country song an hour; eventually, amid competition between the two stations for audience share and advertising revenue, CHMT adopted the Moose FM name and a country music format in 2002. In 2005, Haliburton won a license for a new FM station at 106.3 in North Bay, Ontario, for which they proposed a format based on that of CHMT. The station launched in 2006 under the call letters CFXN. On March 13, 2006, after a day of stunting in which it played entirely Shania Twain music, the station dropped country music for adult hits as "Timmins' best of whatever, The Moose 93.1 FM."

References

External links

* [http://www.moosefm.com/chmt1/index.php Moose FM Timmins]
* [http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/radio/histories.php?id=291&historyID=288 CHMT history at Canadian Communications Foundation]
*RecnetCanada|CHMT-FM