CJLL-FM is a Canadian

Canada

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 radio station

Radio station

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, which broadcasts multilingual community programming at 97.9 FM in Ottawa

Ottawa

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, Ontario

Ontario

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. The station was launched in 2003 by CHIN Radio/TV International

CHIN Radio/TV International

CHIN Radio/TV International is a Canadian radio and television broadcasting company, which owns and operates three radio stations and a television program production unit, all targeting multilingual communities...

, the owner of the multilingual stations CHIN

CHIN (AM)

CHIN is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts multilingual programming at AM 1540 in Toronto, Ontario. The station, owned by CHIN Radio/TV International, also has an FM rebroadcaster at 91.9 to fill in reception gaps in parts of the Toronto area — this should not be confused with CHIN-FM,...

 and CHIN-FM

CHIN-FM

CHIN-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts multilingual programming at FM 100.7 in Toronto, Ontario. It should not be confused with FM 91.9, a rebroadcaster of AM sister station CHIN with a different programming schedule...

 in Toronto

Toronto

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. Although CJLL has a very different call sign than its Toronto sibling stations, it shares their branding as CHIN Ottawa.

CJLL airs morning programming primarily in Italian

Italian language

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, with afternoon programming in Arabic

Arabic language

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 and Chinese (Cantonese & Mandarin

Standard Mandarin

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) overnight. On evenings and weekends CHIN airs programming in Caribbean

Caribbean

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, Dutch

Dutch language

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, Filipino

Tagalog language

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, German

German language

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, Greek

Greek language

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, Gujarati

Gujarati language

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, Haitian

Haitian Creole language

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, Hindi, Hungarian

Hungarian language

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, Irish Gaelic

Irish language

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, Persian, Polish

Polish language

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, Portuguese

Portuguese language

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, Punjabi

Punjabi language

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, Russian

Russian language

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, Spanish

Spanish language

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, Ukrainian

Ukrainian language

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 and Urdu.

As of November 6, 2011, the China Radio International

China Radio International

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 says CJLL is one of the radio stations that simulcasts their programs.

External links

• CHIN Radio Ottawa
• CJLL history at Canadian Communications Foundation
  Canadian Communications Foundation
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