CKGN-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 89.7 FM in Kapuskasing , Ontario and 94.7 FM in Smooth Rock Falls . Owned and operated by Radio communautaire KapNord cooperative , it is a non-profit community radio station for the region's franco-ontarian community.
6-581: The station is a member of the Alliance des radios communautaires du Canada . The station originally dates back to 1990 when Radio Communautaire Kapnord Inc. received an approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on September 28, 1990 to operate a low-power short-term French language community events radio station at Kapuskasing on the frequency of 91.5 MHz with 33 watts. Two more licences were granted before
12-474: A radio station in Ontario is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Alliance des radios communautaires du Canada The Alliance des radios communautaires du Canada is a Canadian organization, which serves as a coordinating body for French-language community radio stations in the regions of English Canada , where French speakers are in the minority. Founded in 1991, the organization supports
18-783: The Association de la presse francophone, the Quebec Community Newspapers Association and the English-Language Arts Network, it is also a partner in the Consortium of Official Language Minority Community Media, which supports the overall development of minority-language media in Canada. In 2010, the Alliance des radios communautaires du Canada and the Association de la presse francophone selected Pascale Castonguay,
24-606: The development and maintenance of French-language community radio in Canada through lobbying, advocacy, management support, training and syndication of programming. The organization cooperates with, but operates separately from, the Association des radiodiffuseurs communautaires du Québec for community radio stations in Quebec . In 2018, the two organizations held their first-ever joint conference for all French-language community radio stations across Canada. Alongside organizations such as
30-517: The frequency 94.7 FM. The transmitter signed on as CKGN-FM-1 in 2002. CKGN is a former callsign from a television station in North Bay, Ontario from 1955 to 1962, known today as CKNY-DT and CKGN was again used for a television station ( Global Television ) in Toronto , Ontario from 1974 to 1984. The call letters remained unused until the launch of CKGN-FM in the early 1990s. This article about
36-483: The station officially signed on in 1993. On January 26, 1993, Kapnord received CRTC approval to operate a new French language community radio station on the frequency of 89.7 MHz with an effective radiated power of 3,000 watts. The station officially signed on the air on October 20 later that same year with the CKGN-FM callsign. In 2000, the station was authorized to add a transmitter at Smooth Rock Falls to operate on
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