CJWI

Infobox Radio station
name = CJWI


city = Montreal, Quebec
branding = CPAM Radio Union
slogan =
airdate = 1967
frequency = 1610 KHz (AM)
format = multilingual
power = 1 KW
owner = Jean-Ernest Pierre
website = [http://www.cpam-radiounion.com/index.asp CJWI Radio]

CJWI is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec.

Owned and operated by Jean-Ernest Pierre, an Haitian-born lawyer who immigrated to Canada in the late 1970s, CJWI broadcasts on 1610 kHz with a power of 1,000 watts as a class C station, using an omnidirectional antenna. Because of its location on a sparsely-populated extended band frequency, its signal has been heard by DXers everywhere in North America since it opened during the summer of 2002.

The station has a variety format targeting ethnic minorities, especially (but not exclusively) Haitian immigrants. For that reason, part of its programming is in Creole. It identifies itself as "CPAM Radio Union".

CJWI has the particularity of having its transmitter site on the top of a building, a rarity among AM stations. It uses a short Valcom fibreglass whip antenna mounted atop a warehouse located on Jarry Boulevard in Montreal, near Autoroute 40.

External links

* [http://www.cpam-radiounion.com/index.asp CPAM Radio Union]
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