CHTO is a Canadian

Canada

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 radio station, broadcasting at 1690 AM in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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. The station airs a multicultural programming format. It is owned by Canadian Hellenic Toronto Radio Inc., which is run by Vassiliki Maniatakos, wife of Peter Maniatakos who owns Odyssey Television Network. The station was initially going to launch by the end of 2006, but this was pushed back due to technical problems. It has been on the air since September 2007.

CHTO's programming is predominantly Greek

Greek language

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 although it is mandated to air programming in other languages as well. Due to out of date information on the stations' website (which has not been updated since 2008), it is unknown what other ethnic programming currently airs on CHTO.

History

Mrs. Maniatakos has operated a closed circuit specialty audio service in Toronto since 1966 under the name CHCR-FM. This service aired Greek language programming 24hrs a day; it was initially available as an SCMO

Subsidiary Communications Authority

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 service (via CKFM-FM

CKFM-FM

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) but subsequently switched to cable and was available on Rogers Digital Cable

Rogers Cable

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 channel 959, as part of their digital radio offerings, in Toronto and area. In 2007 when CHTO launched, CHCR was discontinued and CHTO now airs in its place on Rogers.

On June 10, 2009, CHTO applied to the CRTC to increase their daytime transmitting power to 3Kw, in an effort to serve communities in Mississauga & Brampton. The request received approval on November 5, 2009. CHTO began broadcasting at its new ERP of 3 kW as of March 2010.

External links

• CHTO AM1690
• CHTO history at Canadian Communications Foundation
  Canadian Communications Foundation
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• Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2006-117