radio station
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St. Stephen
Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ''Stéphanos'', meaning "wreath, crown" and by extension "reward, honor, renown, fame", often given as a title rather than as a name; c. 5 – c. 34 AD) is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first ...
,
New Brunswick
New Brunswick (french: Nouveau-Brunswick, , locally ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. It is the only province with both English and ...
classic hits
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format and is branded on-air as ''98.1 Charlotte FM''. The station is owned by
Acadia Broadcasting
Acadia Broadcasting Limited is a Canadian radio broadcasting network that operates 5 FM radio stations in Northwestern Ontario and 10 in the Atlantic Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It is owned by Ocean Capital Investments whi ...
.
The station began broadcasting on May 28, 2001.
On-air staff
*Mark Downey
*Cory Morrow
*Marc Henwood
Former on-air staff
*Perry White
*Kim Levesque
*Allan Scott
*Tracy Hanson
*Brittany Gullison
*Aaron Cosgrove
*Johnny Barker
*John Higgins
*Blair Hamilton
*Jonathan Berriault
*Shawn Richard
*Kyle Moore
*Sarah Legacy
*Jenna Mulholland
*Jessi Hatt
Station contests
*Reverse Trivia
*The Big Kiss Contest
*Mother Daughter Look Alike Contest
*The Tide's Haunted House
*Win & Wed By The Sea
*Various opportunities to win tickets for other draws, shows, etc.
Former logos
History
On August 24, 2000, New Brunswick Broadcasting Co.Ltd. was awarded a licence for a new FM station at St. Stephen. It would broadcast on a frequency of 98.1 MHz with an effective radiated power of 40,000 watts. The new station would provide the first local radio service available to residents of St. Stephen and Charlotte County. It would feature a blend of
adult contemporary
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and
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
targeted to listeners between the ages of 25 and 54.
CHTD signed on the air on May 28, 2001 with a country format branded as ''98.1 The Tide''. The station simulcast some programming of co-owned CHWV-FMSaint John.
On January 1, 2003, New Brunswick Broadcasting Co. Ltd. and Acadia Broadcasting Co. Ltd. were amalgamated and continued under the name
Acadia Broadcasting
Acadia Broadcasting Limited is a Canadian radio broadcasting network that operates 5 FM radio stations in Northwestern Ontario and 10 in the Atlantic Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It is owned by Ocean Capital Investments whi ...
Ltd.
On June 8, 2005, the CRTC approved a corporate reorganization resulting in the transfer of the ownership and effective control of Acadia Broadcasting Limited, licensee of
CHSJ-FM
CHSJ-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 94.1 FM in Saint John, New Brunswick. The station plays a country format under the ''Country 94'' branding. CHSJ is owned by Acadia Broadcasting, which also owns sister station CHWV-FM.
Histo ...
and CHWV-FM Saint John (NB), CHTD St. Stephen (NB), and
CKBW-FM
CKBW-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 98.1 FM in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. The station also operates in Liverpool at 94.5 and in Shelburne at 93.1. The station plays a classic hits format branded as ''CKBW''. CKBW is owned & oper ...
Bridgewater (NS), from Brunswick News Inc., a corporation indirectly owned and controlled by J.K. Irving, A.L. Irving and John E. Irving (Irving brothers), to 618042 N.B. Inc., a corporation indirectly owned and controlled by John E. Irving.
On May 8, 2006, CHTD began broadcasting from new studios at 112 Milltown Boulevard.
The CRTC approved the change in the effective control of Acadia Broadcasting Limited from John E. Irving to a joint control exercised by John K.F. Irving and Anne C.I. Oxley, following the death of John E. Irving in 2010. Acadia was the licensee of radio stations in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ontario, following the amalgamation of Northwoods Broadcasting Limited with its mother company Acadia on February 3, 2012.
On August 17, 2012, the CRTC administratively renewed the licence of CHTD to August 31, 2013.
On May 18, 2018, CHTD changed its format to
adult contemporary
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...
now branded ''98.1 Charlotte FM''.
On July 1, 2021, CHTD again changed its format to
classic hits
Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV in the early 1980s ...
, making its main competitor
WQDY-FM
WQDY-FM, on air as ''Classic Hits 92.7 & 95.3'', is an American radio station licensed to Calais, Maine. The station simulcasts on WALZ-FM Machias, Maine (95.3 FM). The station carries a classic hits format, with a heavy emphasis on local sport ...