CHRN

CHRN
	Multilingual
Ownership
Owner	Radio Humsafar
History
First air date	2016
Technical information
Class	C
Power	1,000 watts
Transmitter coordinates	45°26′52.08″N 73°39′29.88″W / 45.4478000°N 73.6583000°W
Links
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	radiohumsafar.com

CHRN is a

radio station which operates at 1610 kHz/AM in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The station serves as a flagship for Radio Humsafar, an international radio network serving the South Asian diaspora. CHRN is Radio Humsafar's second radio station in the Greater Montreal area, as it also owns CJLV

.

Radio Humsafar received approval for the station from the CRTC on May 16, 2014. The station will operate at 1610 kHz with a universal transmitter power of 1,000 watts.^[1]^[2] The 1610 frequency was previously occupied by CJWI from 2002 until 2009, when it relocated to 1410 kHz.

Radio Humsafar previously applied for a station on March 16, 2011, which would have broadcast at 1400 kHz with a power of 1,000 watts;^[3] this application was later withdrawn, for unknown reasons,^[4] though a station at this position would have been first-adjacent to CJWI at 1410 kHz, which would have created interference issues.

CHRN is one of only two full-power stations in North America to use the 1610 frequency, the other being CHHA; the frequency has been unused in Mexico since 2018 and is reserved in the United States for travelers' information stations.