CKYE-FM

CKYE-FM
Vancouver, British Columbia;
Broadcast area	Metro Vancouver
Frequency	93.1 MHz (FM)
Branding	Red FM
Programming
Format	Multicultural
Ownership
Owner	South Asian Broadcasting Corporation
History
First air date	December 21, 2005
Technical information
Class	C
Power	8 kilowatts
HAAT	600 metres
Transmitter coordinates	49°21′15″N 122°57′30″W / 49.354252°N 122.958308°W
Links
Webcast	Listen live
Website	Red FM

CKYE-FM (identified on air and in print as Red FM) is a Canadian radio station in the Metro Vancouver region of British Columbia. It broadcasts at 93.1 megahertz on the FM band with an effective radiated power of 8,000 watts from a transmitter on Mount Seymour, and its studios are located in Surrey. The station is owned by the South Asian Broadcasting Corporation.

History

Initial approval for a new ethnic radio station was granted on 21 July 2005 by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. ^[1] The station was originally licensed to broadcast with an average effective radiated power of 2,800 watts, which was increased to 4,200 watts on 21 December 2005. Terms of the license included a stipulation that 90% of all programming in each broadcast week must be ethnic in nature. The station is required to provide programming in at least 15 different languages, targeted at no less than 15 different ethnic groups. 75% of this programming must be in the Punjabi, Hindi, and Urdu languages.