CHMZ-FM

CHMZ-FM
City	Tofino, British Columbia
Branding	Long Beach Radio
Frequency	98.9 MHz (FM)
ERP	0.17 kW
Class	A1
Owner	McBride Communications (West Island Radio Enterprises)
Sister stations	CIMM-FM
Website	www.tuffcityradio.rocks

CHMZ-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts at 90.1 FM in Tofino, British Columbia. It is rebroadcast via and Internet stream on 99.5 FM CIMM-FM in Ucluelet. Collectively, the stations are labelled as Long Beach Radio. Programming targets regional news and events as well as a focus on emerging Canadian artists. Both stations are on-air twenty four hours a day, year round.

Currently the station has a daily morning show hosted by Tofino resident, JJ Belanger. There are also a number of local, mostly volunteer hosts who provide themed programming. Long Beach Radio also imports some nationally syndicated programs and Vancouver Canucks hockey. Daily information programming includes local and national news and sports, tide reports, weather, driving conditions, marine weather and surf conditions.

CHMZ received approval in 2004 and signed on August 16, 2005.^[1]

In 2016, McBride Communications has dropped the Long Beach Radio simulcast on CHMZ-FM 90.1 Tofino and CIMM-FM 99.5 Ucluelet replacing it with local programming on both stations. CHMZ-FM is now known as TUFF CITY RADIO 90.1 and sister station CIMM-FM is now known as UKEE RADIO 99.5. Both stations have retained their Eclectic Rock & Variety formats.

References

↑ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2004-415

External links

Radio stations on Western and Northern Vancouver Island and the Northern Sunshine Coast, British Columbia

Campbell River	CHVI 88.7 CFIY 93.1 CIQC 99.7 CBYT 104.5

Cortes Island	CKTZ 89.5

Courtenay	CKLR 97.3 CFCP 98.9

Hornby Island	CHFR 96.5

Port Alberni	CHPA 90.9 CJAV 93.3 CBUF-FM-8 94.9 CBTQ-FM 98.1

Port Hardy	CFNI 1240 CBPD 103.7

Powell River	CJMP 90.1 CBUW 92.5 CFPW 95.7

Tofino	CHMZ 90.1 CBXZ 91.5 CJWC-FM-1 99.9 VF2380 104.7 Defunct: CHOO-FM

Ucluelet	CBXQ 540 CBPU 1260 CIMM 99.5 VF2381 104.9 CJWC 107.3

Adjacent Markets	Southwestern BC Mainland Victoria/South Vancouver Island

British Columbia radio markets Okanagan Prince George / Northern Interior Thompson-Cariboo Northern & Western Vancouver Island Southwest BC Mainland Greater Vancouver Victoria & Mid Island See also List of radio stations in British Columbia

Coordinates: 49°08′56″N 125°54′00″W / 49.14889°N 125.90000°W / 49.14889; -125.90000

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