CHIK-FM is a

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located in

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, Canada. Owned and operated by

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, it broadcasts on 98.9

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with an

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of 41,000

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s ( class C1) using an

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. The station's

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is located at Mount Bélair. The station has a

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and is part of the "

Énergie Énergie is a Canadian radio network of French-language mainstream rock outlets broadcasting throughout the province of Quebec and portions of eastern Ontario, in Eastern Canada. They offer a personality-driven mix of francophone and anglophone ...

" network which operates across Quebec. CHIK started operations on July 29, 1982, as a

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to the now-defunct CJRP and originally had an

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format, similar to CITF-FM and

CHOI-FM CHOI-FM is a French-language FM radio station that broadcasts on the frequency 98.1 MHz out of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, with a talk format. Locally, it is known as ''Radio X'' (a reference to "Generation X", as most of CHOI's listeners con ...

as per their respective conditions of licence. CHIK switched to a CHR format a few years after opening because there were too many easy listening stations in the Quebec City

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. Since 2011, CHIK has more local programming than other Énergie stations around Quebec, with local DJs from 5:30 a.m.-8 p.m. weekdays and 6 a.m.-7 p.m. weekends.

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Énergie 98.9
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