CIAO (AM)

CIAO

City	Brampton, Ontario
Broadcast area	Greater Toronto Area
Branding	AM530
Frequency	530 kHz (AM)
First air date	1953
Format	multilingual
Power	1,000 watts day, 250 watts night
Callsign meaning	Ciao (Italian for "hello" and "goodbye")
Former callsigns	CFJB, CHIC, CKMW
Owner	Evanov Communications
Website	www.am530.ca

CIAO is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 530 AM in Brampton, Ontario. The station, owned by Evanov Communications, broadcasts a multilingual programming format. CIAO's studios are located on Dundas Street West in the Eatonville neighbourhood of Toronto, while its transmitter is located near Hornby.

History

The station was launched in 1953 as AM 1090 CFJB, a daytimer owned by broadcaster Fen Job. Job was killed in a car crash in 1956, and the station was sold by his estate to CHIC Ltd. in 1959, adopting the new callsign CHIC the following year. In 1961, the owners also launched CHIC-FM on 102.1 MHz.

In 1964, CHIC became a full-time broadcaster, moving to AM 790. In 1977, CHIC-FM adopted the new callsign CFNY.

In 1979, the stations' owner went into receivership. The stations were subsequently acquired by Civitas Corp., the owner of CJMS in Montreal. Civitas became Mutual Communications in 1980, and CHIC adopted the new callsign CKMW. Mutual subsequently sold CKMW to Patrick Hurley, who incorporated as CKMW Radio Ltd., in 1983; CFNY was sold to Selkirk Communications.

As CKMW, the AM station adopted its current multilingual format, and ownership of CKMW Radio was transferred to Evanov in 1985.

The station adopted its current callsign in 1987, and moved to its current frequency in 1991 after CJFT in Fort Erie converted to the FM band.^[1] CIAO is one of a handful of commercial radio stations in North America broadcasting on 530 kHz, normally reserved for low-powered Travellers' Information Stations^[2]in the USA, operating at 10 Watts of power.

Programming

CIAO's programming is primarily South Asian (Hindi and Punjabi) with some Bosnian, Bulgarian, Caribbean, Croatian, Filipino, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Somali and Spanish programming in the evenings and on weekends.

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Radio stations in the Greater Toronto Area

Toronto AM	CJCL 590 CFTR 680 CFZM 740 CJBC 860 CFRB 1010 CHUM 1050 CJRU 1280 CHKT 1430 CHIN 1540 CHHA 1610 CHTO 1690 Defunct: CHEV 1610

Toronto FM	CIND 88.1 CIRV 88.9 CIUT 89.5 CJBC 90.3 CJRT 91.1 CHIN-1 91.9 CKIS 92.5 CFXJ 93.5 CBL 94.1 CJKX-2 95.9 CFMZ 96.3 CFZM-1 96.7 CKHC 96.9 CHBM 97.3 CHFI 98.1 CKFG 98.7 CBLA 99.1 CKFM 99.9 CHIN 100.7 CJSA 101.3 CJRK 102.7 CIRR 103.9 CHUM 104.5 CHOQ 105.1 CHRY 105.5 CILQ 107.1 Defunct: CKLN 88.1 CKRG 89.9¹ CKO-FM-2 99.1 CJVF 102.7 CKAV 106.5

Peel Region	Brampton CIAO 530 NEW 1350 CFNY 102.1 Caledon CFGM 102.7 CJFB 105.5 Mississauga CKNT 960 CJMR 1320 CINA 1650 CKC455/CFRE 91.9 Defunct: CFBN 1280

Durham Region	Ajax CJKX 95.9 Oshawa CKDO 1580/107.7 CKGE 94.9

York Region	Georgina Island CFGI 92.3 Richmond Hill CFMJ 640 Markham CHEV 1610¹ CFMS 105.9 Newmarket CKDX 88.5 CHOP 102.7 Stouffville CIWS 102.9 Uxbridge CIUX 105.5 Vaughan CFU758 90.7

Halton Region	Oakville CJYE 1250

Dufferin County	Orangeville CKMO 101.5 CIDC 103.5 Shelburne CFDC 104.9

Shortwave	CFRX 6.07 MHz

Specialty	HMWN Radio Maria Sur Sagar Radio Radio Humsafar

HD Digital radio	92.5-1 92.5-2 92.5-3 101.3-1 101.3-2 101.3-3 101.3-4 105.9-1 105.9-2 105.9-3 105.9-4

Internet radio	Afterhours.FM CHEV Radio Radio Glendon Radio Regent

Ontario radio markets Cornwall & Eastern Ontario Hamilton-Niagara Kenora District First Nations Radio Kingston-Brockville Kitchener-Waterloo London Midwestern Ontario North Bay Ottawa Parry Sound-Muskoka-Haliburton Pembroke/Ottawa Valley Peterborough Quinte/Belleville-Trenton Rainy River Simcoe County/Barrie/Orillia Sault Ste. Marie Sudbury Thunder Bay Timiskaming Timmins Toronto Windsor-Chatham-Sarnia See also List of radio stations in Ontario ¹: Defunct as a terrestrial radio broadcaster; continuing as an internet-only service

Evanov Communications

Radio stations	Energy CHWE-FM The Jewel CFJL-FM CHSV-FM CJWL-FM CKDX-FM CKHK-FM CKPC-FM Other CFMB CHRC-FM CHRF CIAO CIDC-FM CIRR-FM CKHY-FM CKHZ-FM CKJS CKPC

Brampton

Geography	Bramalea Castlemore Claireville Heart Lake Loafers Lake Mount Pleasant Camp Naivelt Professor's Lake Snelgrove Toronto Gore Township

Buildings and structures	A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse Bramalea City Centre Brampton Civic Hospital Brampton Library Brampton Soccer Centre Korean War Memorial Wall Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (formerly the Peel Heritage Complex) Peel County Courthouse Peel Memorial Hospital Powerade Centre Rose Theatre Shoppers World Brampton Trinity Common Mall

Organization	Brampton Arts Council Brampton Board of Trade Visual Arts Brampton

Events	Brampton Fall Fair Carabram

Politics	Brampton City Council Brampton City Hall 10 Peel Centre Drive

Media	CFNY-FM CIAO The Brampton Guardian Defunct The Bramptonian The Brampton Times

Education	Peel District School Board Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board Conseil scolaire Viamonde Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud Sheridan College, Brampton Campus Algoma University, Brampton Campus

Transportation	Brampton Airport Brampton Transit Züm

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