CHOP-FM is a

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station that operates at 102.7 FM in Newmarket,

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. Owned by

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, the station began broadcasting on September 28, 2007, after it was given approval by the

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(CRTC) on February 1, 2007. The station was modelled after another high school radio station in the province called

CKVI-FM CKVI-FM is a Canadian community radio station, owned and operated by Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute in Kingston, Ontario. The station broadcasts at 91.9 on the FM dial, and uses the on-air brand ''The Cave''. CKVI was the first hi ...

located in

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. On November 12, 2021, the CRTC issued a call for comments on market capacity to serve Newmarket, Ontario and call for applications to serve Newmarket. The station also submitted an application to increase CHOP-FM's effective radiated power (ERP) from 5 watts LP to 100 watts class A1. On December 5, 2022, Pickering College Campus Radio submitted an application to operate an English language community FM radio station at Newmarket which would operate at 102.7 MHz (channel 274A1) with an average effective radiated power (ERP) of 33.5 watts (maximum ERP of 100 watts, and an effective height of the antenna above average terrain HAATof 9 metres). The CRTC approved Pickering College's application on August 7, 2023.Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2023-241
English-language community FM radio station in Newmarket, ''CRTC'', August 7, 2023

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External links

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at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the Canadian Communications Foundation *

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Newmarket, Ontario

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