Canadian radio station CMR Punjabi HD Radio (CJSA) transmits at 101.3 MHz from Toronto, Ontario. The station’s 22-language programming reaches a large portion of South Asian viewers. It serves well over 16 cultural and ethnic groups. The CMR Punjabi Canada station studios are on Rexdale Boulevard in Etobicoke, while its transmitter is atop First Canadian Place. With programming in Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Macedonian (Voice of Macedonia), Malayalam (Madhurageetham), Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Sinhalese, Somali, Tamil, Tagalog (FilTown Radio), Telugu (Morning Raaga), Tibetan, Twi, and Urdu, the station primarily caters to South Asian communities (Radio Pakistan Toronto).
It joined in 2004 and began using a frequency previously repeated by CHIN to fill reception gaps. The FM rebroadcaster for CHIN is presently listening on 91.9 FM. In the past, a tourist information center in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec, used the call sign CJSA. That station, run by the local chamber of business, voluntarily gave up its broadcasting license in 2002. The current CJSA FM in Toronto and the previous CJSA are unrelated. CJSA went on for HD Radio operations in December 2013.
On its HD-2 subchannel, CJSA broadcasts content in the Tamil language. The first Canadian radio station to use the technology was CING-FM in Hamilton, and CJSA is the second. The station has written to the CRTC that it is interested in broadcasting up to five HD Radio subchannels. Each would be in a different language for a different ethnic group. The (HD2 would be Tamil, HD3 would be Punjabi, HD4 would be Hindi and Urdu, Aboriginal/First Nations, and HD5 would be data transmission). CMR Punjabi is on-air 24 hours of classical, modern, and entertaining Punjabi music.
Programs of CMR Punjabi Canada
Our Lady of Good Health Parish – Sun 10.00 AM to 10.30 AM – Tamil
Voice of Macedonian – Sun 6.00 PM to 7.00 PM – Macedonian
South Asian Unlimited – Mon-Fri: 9:00 to 11:00 AM – Hindi
Saptarang – Sat 8:00AM to 8:30AM – Marathi
Sankofa – Sun 8.00 AM to 10.00 AM- Twi- Ga
Radio Pakistan – Mon-Fri: 7.00 PM to 9.00 PM – Urdu, Saraiki
Radio Hadhwanaag – Sat-Sun: 10.00 PM to 11.00 PM – Somali
Namaste Radio – Sat 7:30AM to 8:00AM – Nepali
Morning Raaga – Sun 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM – Telugu
Madhurageetham – Sat-Sun 8.30 AM to 10.30 AM – Malayalam
Kannada Kasturi – Sat 08:30AM to 09:00AM – Kannada
Filtown Radio – Sun 9.00 PM to 10.00 PM – Filipino
CMR @ 5 Pm – Mon-Fri 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm (Prime Drive Time) – Hindi/ Urdu/Englis
CMR @ 6 Pm – Mon-Fri 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm (Prime Drive Time) – Hindi/ Urdu/English
Caribbean Gospel – Sun 6.00 AM to 8.00 AM – English
Caribbean Gospel – Sun 6.00 AM to 8.00 AM – English
Asian Connections – Mon-Fri 11.00 AM to 2.00 PM – Punjabi, Hindi, Bengali
Contact Details
Address: CMR 101.3 Diversity FM (CJSA), 306 Rexdale Blvd, Unit #1, Etobicoke, Ontario M9W 1R6.
Phone: 416-644-6300
Fax: 416-741-1013
Email: info@cmr24.fm
Official Website: http://cmr24.net/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cmr24.fm/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tamilvisionHD
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cmrtvi/
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