CHYF-FM is a radio station which broadcasts a

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format on the frequency 88.9 FM in

M'Chigeeng First Nation M'Chigeeng First Nation, also known as West Bay, is an Ojibwe First Nation band government in the Manitoulin District of Ontario, Canada. The total registered population as of December 2018, was 2623 people, of which their on-reserve population ...

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. Carrying on business as GIMA Radio (not for profit), the station received

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approval to use the 88.9

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frequency on June 17, 2010. The station began testing with Industry Canada on August 23, 2010, and announced a celebration of inaugural broadcast in honor of Carl Beam on August 25, 2010, at the location of the stations host, Neon Raven Art Gallery, 53 Corbiere Rd, M'chigeeng, which was also the home and ancestral land of Carl Beam. In 2015, Gimaa Radio relaunch fuels hopes for language renaissance. On November 28, 2016, Gimaa Giigidoowin Communications (GGC) applied for authority to effect a change in the ownership and effective control of the English and aboriginal language Type B Native radio station CHYF-FM M'Chigeeng. The CRTC approved the application on March 21, 2017.Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2017-78
CHYF-FM M'Chigeeng – Acquisition of assets, ''CRTC'', March 21, 2017

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chyf-Fm HYF HYF Ojibwe culture Radio stations established in 2010 2010 establishments in Ontario