CHPB-FM

CHPB-FM
City Cochrane, Ontario, Canada
Branding Moose FM
Slogan Cochrane's Biggest Variety
Frequency 98.1 FM
First air date November 19, 2003
ERP 50 watts
HAAT 19 meters (62 ft)
Class LP
Owner Vista Broadcast Group
Website My Cochrane Now Website

CHPB-FM is an adult contemporary radio station broadcasting at 98.1 MHz on the FM dial in Cochrane, Ontario, Canada.

The station began broadcasting in 2003 under the ownership of Tri-Tel Communications.[1] On November 19, 2003, the Haliburton Broadcasting Group was given approval to acquire CHPB-FM from Tri-Tel.[2]

CHPB-FM is a sister station of CFIF-FM in Iroquois Falls. The station airs an adult contemporary format branded as Moose FM.

On April 23, 2012 Vista Broadcast Group, which owns a number of radio stations in western Canada, announced a deal to acquire Haliburton Broadcasting, in cooperation with Westerkirk Capital.[3] The transaction was approved by the CRTC on October 19, 2012.[4]

References

  1. CRTC Decision 2003-84
  2. CRTC Decision 2003-580
  3. "Westerkirk Capital Acquires Vista and Haliburton Broadcast Groups". Broadcaster, April 26, 2012.
  4. Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-577 Various radio programming undertakings – Acquisition of assets, CRTC, October 19, 2012

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Coordinates: 49°03′47″N 81°01′31″W / 49.06306°N 81.02528°W / 49.06306; -81.02528

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