CHAK (AM)

Infobox Radio Station


name=CHAK
airdate= 1960
frequency=860 KHz (AM)
city=Inuvik, Northwest Territories
area=Western Arctic
format=public broadcasting
owner=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
erp=1,000 watts
branding=CBC Radio One
CBC North
slogan=
class=B
website= [http://www.cbc.ca/north/ CBC North]
callsign_meaning=C H AKlavik

CHAK is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 860 AM in Inuvik, Northwest Territories. The station broadcasts the programming of the CBC Radio One network known as CBC North.

History

CHAK was launched in 1960 as a local community station in neighbouring Aklavik on AM 1230. That same year, a new station was being built by the CBC in the new town of Inuvik to replace the old station in Aklavik. The new CHAK went on the air on November 26 1960 on a new frequency, 860. The station was now part of the CBC Northern Radio Service. CHAK received CBC news and topical programs by picking up CBX 1010 (later 740) Edmonton and relaying the broadcast. Tapes recorded in Montreal were also flown in on regular airline flights. Eventually the station was linked into the primary CBC network feed.

Local programming

During the network's primary local programming breaks, CHAK airs the same programs as CFYK in Yellowknife, including "The Trailbreaker" on weekday mornings, the noon-hour program "Northwind", "Trail's End" in the afternoons, and "Northern Air" on weekend mornings.

However, the two stations both diverge from Radio One network programming in the afternoons, producing separate programming streams for their local First Nations communities. CHAK airs "Nantaii" in Gwich'in from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. and "Tusaavik" in Inuvialuktun from 3:00 until 4 p.m.

CHAK has two rebroadcasters in Nunavut, both in communities where CFFB, the CBC North station in Iqaluit, also broadcasts. This is done in order to provide CHAK's afternoon First Nations programming to these communities, as CFFB's afternoon schedule concentrates on programming in Inuktitut.

Transmitters

RadioRebroadcasters
rec = true
callsign = CHAK
call1 = CBAK
freq1 = 1210 AM
watts1 = 40
class1 = LP
city1 = Aklavik [ [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/1998/DB98-519.HTM Decision CRTC 98-519] ]
call2 = CBIN-FM
freq2 = 105.1
watts2 = 82
class2 = A1
city2 = Cambridge Bay, Nunavut
call3 = CBQE-FM
freq3 = 105.1
watts3 = 177
class3 = A1
city3 = Fort Good Hope [ [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/1994/DB94-563.HTM Decision CRTC 94-563] ]
call4 = CBQM
freq4 = 690 AM
watts4 = 40
class4 = LP
city4 = Fort McPherson [ [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/1994/DB94-120.HTM Decision CRTC 94-120] ]
call5 = CBIO-FM
freq5 = 105.1
watts5 = 82
class5 = A1
city5 = Kugluktuk, Nunavut
call6 = CBDW
freq6 = 990 AM
watts6 = 40
class6 = LP
city6 = Norman Wells
call7 = VF2037
freq7 = 106.1
watts7 = 8
class7 = LP
city7 = Paulatuk¹
call8 = VF2145
freq8 = 106.1
watts8 = 8
class8 = LP
city8 = Tsiigehtchic¹
call9 = CBAC
freq9 = 1150 AM
watts9 = 40
class9 = LP
city9 = Tuktoyaktuk
call10 = CBQI
freq10 = 920 AM
watts10 = 99
class10 = LP
city10 = Tulita
call11 = CKHI-FM
freq11 = 105.1
watts11 = 9
class11 = LP
city11 = Ulukhaktok¹

¹ In Paulatuk, Tsiigehtchic and Ulukhaktok, CHAK's signal is rebroadcast on transmitters owned by local community groups rather than by the CBC itself. Three further community transmitters — operating on 107.1 in Colville Lake, 107.1 in Sachs Harbour and 100.1 in Old Crow, Yukon — are unlicensed by the CRTC under its exemption for low-power community radio undertakings.

References

ee also

* CHAK-TV

External links

* [http://www.cbc.ca/north/ CBC North]
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