City Timmins, Ontario Slogan Timmins' Best Variety! First air date 2001 | Branding Moose FM Frequency 93.1 MHz (FM) Format classic/adult hits | |
CHMT-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 93.1 FM in Timmins, Ontario. The station broadcasts a classic hits format branded as Moose FM. The station was previously owned by Haliburton Broadcasting Group before being sold to Vista Radio.
The Haliburton Broadcasting Group was licensed by the CRTC in February 2001 to open up a new English-language commercial FM radio station in Timmins Ontario.
The station originally launched in 2001 as an adult contemporary station branded as Mix 93. Some current hot adult contemporary/contemporary hit radio singles were dayparted into the evening and overnight periods. However, around the same time as CHMT's launch in 2001, Telemedia moved the competing CKGB to FM as well as flipping that station's format from country to adult contemporary.
CHMT briefly responded by playing at least one country song an hour; eventually, amid competition between the two stations for audience share and advertising revenue, CHMT adopted the Moose FM branding and a country music format in 2002.
In 2005, Haliburton Broadcasting group received a license for a new FM radio station at 106.3 in North Bay, for which they proposed a format based on that of CHMT. The station launched in 2006 under the call letters CFXN.
On March 13, 2006, after a day of stunting in which it played entirely Shania Twain music, the station dropped country music for an adult hits format as "Timmins' best of whatever, The Moose 93.1 FM."
On April 5, 2011, Haliburton Broadcasting applied to the CRTC to increase CHMT-FM's signal from 3,600 to 16,400 watts, by increasing the effective height of antenna above average terrain from 75.8 to 95 metres, and by changing its class from A to B1. This was approved on June 3, 2011.
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. The transaction was approved by the CRTC on October 19, 2012.