CIHO-FM is a

French language French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-R ...

community radio Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial broadcasting, commercial and public broadcasting. Community broadcasting, Community stations serve geographic communities and communities o ...

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that broadcasts at 96.3 FM in

Saint-Hilarion, Quebec Saint-Hilarion () is a parish municipality in Charlevoix Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale of the province of Quebec, Canada. It is named after Saint Hilarion. History In 1822. the geographic to ...

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. Its network of five transmitters serves the

Charlevoix Charlevoix ( , ) is a cultural and natural region in Quebec, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River as well as in the Laurentian Mountains area of the Canadian Shield. This dramatic landscape includes rolling terrain, fjords, headlands ...

and

Charlevoix-Est Charlevoix-Est () is a regional county municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Clermont, Capitale-Nationale, Clermont. Subdivisions There are 9 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (2) * Clermont, C ...

RCMs in the

Capitale-Nationale Capitale-Nationale (; ) is one of the 17 administrative regions of Quebec. It is anchored by the provincial capital, Quebec City, and is largely coextensive with that city's metropolitan area. It has a land area of 18,684.78 km2. It reported ...

region northeast of

Quebec City Quebec City is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Census Metropolitan Area (including surrounding communities) had a populati ...

. Owned by Radio MF Charlevoix, the station was licensed in 1985. On August 28, 2009, Radio MF Charlevoix received

CRTC The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC; ) is a public organization in Canada tasked with the mandate as a regulatory agency tribunal for various electronic communications, covering broadcasting and telecommunic ...

approval for a new French language Class B community FM radio station in Saint-Hilarion, with repeaters in La Malbaie, Baie-Saint-Paul, Petite-Rivière-Saint-François and Saint-Siméon; this license, which was not consummated and expired in August 2011, would have replaced the previous license for the station held by Radio MF Charlevoix.Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2009-533
/ref> The station is a member of the

Association des radiodiffuseurs communautaires du Québec The Alliance des radios communautaires du Québec (ARCQ) is a Canadian organization, which serves as a coordinating body for community radio stations in Quebec.Frédéric Lesemann, Jean-Marie Gourvil and Pierre Hamel, "Les radios communautaires au Q ...

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