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CKYE-FM (identified on air and in print as Red-FM) is a Canadian radio station in the Greater Vancouver region of British Columbia. It broadcasts at 93.1 megahertz on the FM band with an effective radiated power of 8,000 watts from a transmitter on Mount Seymour, and its studios are located in Surrey. The station is owned by the South Asian Broadcasting Corporation.
[edit] History
Initial approval for a new ethnic radio station was granted on 21 July 2005 by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. The station was originally licensed to broadcast with an average effective radiated power of 2,800 watts, which was increased to 4,200 watts on 21 December 2005. Terms of the license included a stipulation that 90% of all programming in each broadcast week must be ethnic in nature. The station is required to provide programming in at least 15 different languages, targeted at no less than 15 different ethnic groups. 75% of this programming must be in the Punjabi, Hindi, and Urdu languages.
[edit] Programming
CKYE's programming is primarily South Asian (Hindi and Punjabi) but it also airs programming in the following languages: African, Bengali, Gujarati, Hungarian, Malayalam, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Sindhi, Spanish, Tamil and Urdu.
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