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CIRR-FM, branded as 103.9 Proud FM, is a radio station in Toronto, Ontario, licensed to serve the city's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities, launched in 2007. It is the first radio station in Canada targeted specifically to an LGBT audience, and the first commercial terrestrial LGBT radio station in the world〔(PROUD FM makes history ). ''Toronto Star'', April 15, 2007.〕 — all earlier LGBT radio stations, such as Joy Melbourne in Australia, Radio Rosa in Denmark and SIRIUS OutQ on satellite radio, were operated by community non-profit groups or aired on non-traditional radio platforms. Originally broadcasting from Toronto's Church and Wellesley neighbourhood, CIRR's studios are currently located on Dundas Street West in the Eatonville neighbourhood of Toronto, while its transmitter is located atop the Sheraton Centre on Queen Street West in downtown Toronto across from Toronto City Hall. ==History== The application was filed by Rainbow Media Group, a partnership between Evanov Communications and other private investors, in 2005, and was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on April 5, 2006.〔(CRTC Decision 2006-128 )〕 The company first applied for this licence in 2000, but was denied in favour of Milestone Radio's CFXJ, Canada's first urban music station. The 2005 application received widespread support from the city's LGBT community. The station proposal was originally branded as "Rainbow Radio"; the branding that would make it to air, "Proud FM", began to be used in promotional announcements and job advertisements in early 2007. The station, which broadcasts a 50-watt signal at 103.9 FM, officially launched at 6 AM on April 16, 2007. The station began test broadcasts in February 2007. Proud FM's programming is a predominantly CHR format, with some specialty dance music, rhythm and blues, Latin, pop standards and world music programming. The station also dedicates 28 hours per week to news, talk and other information programming. Its program content will be partially overseen by a community advisory committee. It is also one of six stations in Toronto that reports to BDS' Canadian Top 40 airplay panel.〔(BDS monitored radio panel update )〕 The station will also fund a $5,000 annual scholarship to journalism, art or music students at Humber College and Carleton University, and a $30,000 stage showcase for musical artists at Toronto's Pride Week celebrations. In spring 2009, Evanov Communications, already the managing partner in Rainbow Media Group, bought out the remaining owners of Rainbow Media Group and amalgamated the company into its existing holdings.〔("Evanov takes full control of Proud FM" ). ''Xtra!'', May 21, 2009.〕 In the station's early years, some listeners noted that even in the Church and Wellesley Village itself, the station's signal was sometimes drowned out by CBL-FM's rebroadcaster in Peterborough or by CKDK-FM from Woodstock.〔("Toronto's Proud FM plans to get a little louder" ). ''Xtra!'', March 26, 2010.〕 In 2010, the station applied to the CRTC to increase its signal from 50 watts to 128 watts, with an ERP of 250 watts, which received CRTC approval on June 9, 2010.〔(Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2010-357 )〕 However, the station still broadcast from a transmitter location near Yonge and Eglinton in the Midtown region, rather than from a downtown location like most other radio stations in the city, and its signal later deteriorated even further as condominium development increased in the area.〔("Proud FM faces signal trouble" ). ''Toronto Star'', September 7, 2012.〕 CIRR has since relocated its transmitter to the top of the Sheraton Centre on Queen Street. In September 2011, Dufferin Communications applied to the CRTC to move CIRR to 88.1 MHz, formerly held by CKLN-FM, and to increase its transmitter power. The CRTC issued a Broadcast Notice of Consultation inviting other interested parties to apply for the frequency as well;〔(Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2011-625 ) 28 September 2011〕 by the deadline in December 2011, 27 applications had been received. Proud FM did not win the license, however, which instead was awarded to Rock 95 Broadcasting for the indie rock-formatted CIND-FM. As noted above, CIRR-FM was the first commercially-licensed LGBT-oriented radio station in Canada and the world. Evanov Communications was granted a license in November 2011 for a second LGBT-oriented station, a French language signal in the Montreal, Quebec market.〔("Making waves: Montreal broadcasters in flux" ). ''The Gazette'', August 11, 2012.〕 The station, CHRF, which was originally proposed to have launched in 2013 at the 990 AM frequency,〔 would not begin broadcasting until February 2, 2015, after a series of delays that also included a frequency change to 980 AM.〔("Radio Fierté requests frequency change, one-year extension to launch," ) from Fagstein.com, 7/25/2013〕 In May 2014, a live feed of the station was added to Bell Fibe TV channel 982. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CIRR-FM」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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