CKHC-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 96.9
FM in
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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. It is the
campus radio
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station of the city's
Humber Polytechnic
The Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, rebranded as Humber Polytechnic since 2024, is a public college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Founded in 1967, Humber has three main campuses and locations: the Humber North camp ...
. CKHC's studios and transmitter are located at the Humber Polytechnic's North Campus building on Humber College Boulevard.
The station was licensed by the
CRTC in 2004 as a developmental FM station.
CRTC Decision 2004-409
/ref> CKHC was the first radio station in Canada to voluntarily adopt a 100 per cent Canadian content
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playlist. In 2007, the station was approved for a campus instructional license and an increase in power. It can now be heard at a radius of 10 km (6 miles) around the Humber North campus. The station is known on-air as ''96.9 Radio Humber''.
Programming includes a daily news magazine show ''@Humber'', which airs Monday to Friday at noon and again at 6 p.m. Jazz from Humber's renowned music program at 8 a.m. and midnight, along with a daily sports show, ''Humber Sportsdrive'' at 5:30 p.m.
References
2013-665 CRTC Decision regarding the Broadcast license of CKHC-FM
External links
Radio Humber
CKHC-FM
at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the Canadian Communications Foundation
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Humber College
Radio stations established in 2004
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