Broadcast area Eastern Ontario Class B | HAAT 39 meters (128 ft) | |
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Slogan La radio de l'est ontarien Format francophone community radio ERP 19.2 kilowatts average
45.6 kilowatts peak | ||
CHOD-FM, branded as FM 92.1 EST ONTARIEN, is a radio station licensed to Cornwall, Ontario, which currently operates from studios in Casselman. Owned and operated by the Radio communautaire Cornwall-Alexandria cooperative, it is a non-profit community radio station. The station was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on February 24, 1993 and officially launched on May 1, 1994.
On March 26, 2012, Radio communautaire Cornwall-Alexandria Inc., received CRTC approval to change the authorized contours of the French-language community radio programming undertaking CHOD-FM Cornwall by increasing the average effective radiated power (ERP) from 19,200 to 34,167 watts (maximum ERP of 45,600 to 60,000 watts), by changing the class from B to C1, by increasing the effective height of antenna above average terrain from 39 to 106.7 metres and by changing the transmission site.
In October 2016, the station's studios moved to Casselman, in order to better serve and expand in all of its territory.