CHRN is a

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radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...

which operates at 1610

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/ AM in

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, Canada. The station serves as a flagship for

Radio Humsafar Radio Humsafar is a radio network providing South Asian programming to over 2 million listeners in several major cities around the world. Radio Humsafar's programming is broadcast in the United States, Canada, India, Australia and over the internet ...

, an international radio network serving the

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n diaspora. CHRN is Radio Humsafar's second radio station in the Greater Montreal area, as it also owns

CJLV CJLV is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Laval, Quebec, near Montreal. Owned and operated by Radio Humsafar Inc, it broadcasts on 1570 kHz with a power of 10,000 watts as a class B station, using a directional antenna point ...

. Radio Humsafar received approval for the station from the

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on May 16, 2014. The station will operate at 1610 kHz with a universal transmitter power of 1,000 watts. The 1610 frequency was previously occupied by

CJWI CJWI (1410 AM, ''CPAM Radio Union'') is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec. Its studios are located on East Cremazie Boulevard in Montreal. Owned and operated by Groupe Médias Pam Inc., a licensee owned by Je ...

from 2002 until 2009, when it relocated to 1410 kHz. Radio Humsafar previously applied for a station on March 16, 2011, which would have broadcast at 1400 kHz with a power of 1,000 watts; this application was later withdrawn, for unknown reasons,Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2011-188-6
/ref> though a station at this position would have been first-adjacent to CJWI at 1410 kHz, which would have created interference issues. CHRN is one of only two full-power stations in North America to use the 1610 frequency, the other being CHHA; the frequency has been unused in Mexico since 2018 and is reserved in the United States for

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References

External links

www.radiohumsafar.com
- Radio Humsafar website
CHRN-AM history - Canadian Communication Foundation
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