CJLL-FM

CJLL-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts multilingual community programming at 97.9 FM in Ottawa, Ontario, with studios located on Wellington Street West in Ottawa, while its transmitter is located in downtown Ottawa. Although CJLL has a very different call sign than its Toronto sibling stations CHIN and CHIN-FM, it shares their branding as CHIN Ottawa.

CJLL-FM

Ottawa, Ontario
Broadcast area	National Capital Region
Frequency	97.9 MHz
Branding	CHIN Ottawa
Programming
Format	Multi-language
Ownership
Owner	CHIN Radio/TV International (Radio 1540 Limited)
History
First air date	Late 2003
Call sign meaning	C Johnny BarbaLinardo Lombardi (company founder)
Technical information
Class	B1
ERP	6,770 watts
HAAT	117.5 metres (385 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	45°25′09″N 75°42′18″W
Repeater(s)	100.7 CHIN-HD4 (Toronto)
Links
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	CHIN Ottawa

History

On October 4, 2001, the CRTC approved the application by CHIN Radio/TV International, the owner of the multilingual stations CHIN and CHIN-FM in Toronto, for a broadcasting licence for a specialty FM ethnic radio station in the National Capital Region at 97.9 MHz.^[1] The station was launched in 2003 out of studios at 30 Murray Street in the ByWard Market neighborhood,^[2] which later became home to the Philippine Embassy in Ottawa.

CJLL airs programming in over 20 languages, serving up to 40 different cultural communities. Mornings feature programming primarily in Arabic and Italian, while Spanish and Chinese (Cantonese & Mandarin) programming airs in the evenings. On evenings and weekends CHIN airs programming in Caribbean, Dutch, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian, Hindi, Hungarian, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian and Urdu languages.