CALGARY – Calgarians want CHUM’s new Calgary FM radio station to follow the Hot Adult Contemporary format based on votes received so far in an online poll, according to the station’s program director Rob Mise.
When the new FM station hit the airwaves on March 12, it encouraged listeners to indicate what they wanted the station to sound like at www.calgary1015.com.
“This is a Calgary radio station so why not ask Calgary what it wants,” said Mise. “Thanks to the advice and information that we have been receiving, The New 101.5 FM will be a station that will reflect Calgary and meet its music and entertainment needs.”
It’s a good thing most Calgarians are voting for Hot Adult Contemporary music because that is the genre under which the station was licensed by the CRTC in 2006 (Broadcasting Decision 2006-324).
The licence was conditional upon owner CHUM Ltd. submitting for commission approval a frequency acceptable to the regulator and Industry Canada. The frequency – 101.5 MHz – was approved on January 22, 2007 (Broadcasting Decision 2007-27).
The New 101.5 FM was one of four new commercial FM radio stations approved by the CRTC last summer from ten licences sought for the Calgary marketplace. At the same time, the CRTC approved one of three radio licence applications for nearby Airdrie, Alberta.
