CHIM-FM-5 was a Canadian radio station, operating at 93.1 FM in

Red Deer The red deer (''Cervus elaphus'') is one of the largest deer species. A male red deer is called a stag or hart, and a female is called a hind. The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Anatolia, Iran, and parts of wes ...

Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

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. Although licensed as a

rebroadcaster A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or tran ...

CHIM-FM CHIM is a Canadian radio station, which previously broadcast Christian music at 102.3 FM in Timmins, Ontario. The station also currently broadcasts at 1710 AM. The station began testing its signal at 102.3 MHz on December 24, 1995, and of ...

Timmins Timmins ( ) is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the Mattagami River. The city is the fourth-largest city in the Northeastern Ontario region with a population of 41,145 (2021). The city's economy is based on natural resource ex ...

Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central C ...

, the Red Deer station aired some unique local programming and on-air staff and had its own logo not used by any of the other CHIM stations. CHIM-FM was given approval by the

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on June 7, 2000, to add a rebroadcaster at Red Deer. CHIM-FM's licence renewal application was denied by the CRTC on October 23, 2012 due to regulatory violations. As CHIM-FM-5 is licensed as a rebroadcaster of CHIM-FM, it must cease broadcasting at the end of the broadcast day on November 30, 2012.Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-589
CHIM-FM Timmins – Non-renewal of licence, ''CRTC'', October 23, 2012

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