CHTD-FM

Branding98.1 Charlotte FM

CHTD-FM
Programming
St. Stephen, New Brunswick Canada
Broadcast area	St. Stephen
Frequency	98.1 MHz (FM)
Branding	98.1 Charlotte FM
Format	Classic hits
Ownership
Owner	Acadia Broadcasting
History
First air date	May 28, 2001
Call sign meaning	"The Tide" (former branding)
Technical information
Class	B
ERP	40,000 watts
HAAT	167.6 meters
Links
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	charlottefm.ca

CHTD-FM is a radio station broadcasting at 98.1 FM in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada.^[1] The station plays a classic hits format and is branded on-air as 98.1 Charlotte FM. The station is owned by Acadia Broadcasting.

The station began broadcasting on May 28, 2001.

Mark Downey
Cory Morrow
Mike Richards
Jonathan Crouse

Former on-air staff

Perry White
Kim Levesque
Allan Scott
Tracy Hanson
Brittany Gullison
Aaron Cosgrove
Johnny Barker
John Higgins
Blair Hamilton
Jonathan Berriault
Shawn Richard
Kyle Moore
Sarah Legacy
Jenna Mulholland
Jessi Hatt

Station contests

Reverse Trivia
The Big Kiss Contest
Mother Daughter Look Alike Contest
The Tide's Haunted House
Win & Wed By The Sea
Various opportunities to win tickets for other draws, shows, etc.

Former logos


2001–2005


2005–2018

History

On August 24, 2000, New Brunswick Broadcasting Co.Ltd. was awarded a licence for a new FM station at St. Stephen. It would broadcast on a frequency of 98.1 MHz with an effective radiated power of 40,000 watts. The new station would provide the first local radio service available to residents of St. Stephen and Charlotte County. It would feature a blend of adult contemporary and country music targeted to listeners between the ages of 25 and 54.

CHTD signed on the air on May 28, 2001 with a country format branded as 98.1 The Tide. The station simulcast some programming of co-owned CHWV-FM Saint John.

On January 1, 2003, New Brunswick Broadcasting Co. Ltd. and Acadia Broadcasting Co. Ltd. were amalgamated and continued under the name Acadia Broadcasting Ltd.

On June 8, 2005, the CRTC approved a corporate reorganization resulting in the transfer of the ownership and effective control of Acadia Broadcasting Limited, licensee of CHSJ-FM and CHWV-FM Saint John (NB), CHTD St. Stephen (NB), and CKBW-FM Bridgewater (NS), from Brunswick News Inc., a corporation indirectly owned and controlled by J.K. Irving, A.L. Irving and John E. Irving (Irving brothers), to 618042 N.B. Inc., a corporation indirectly owned and controlled by John E. Irving.

On May 8, 2006, CHTD began broadcasting from new studios at 112 Milltown Boulevard.

The CRTC approved the change in the effective control of Acadia Broadcasting Limited from John E. Irving to a joint control exercised by John K.F. Irving and Anne C.I. Oxley, following the death of John E. Irving in 2010. Acadia was the licensee of radio stations in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ontario, following the amalgamation of Northwoods Broadcasting Limited with its mother company Acadia on February 3, 2012.

On August 17, 2012, the CRTC administratively renewed the licence of CHTD to August 31, 2013.

On May 18, 2018, CHTD changed its format to adult contemporary now branded 98.1 Charlotte FM.

On July 1, 2021, CHTD again changed its format to classic hits, making its main competitor WQDY-FM in Calais, Maine.

Former on-air staff

Station contests

Former logos

History

References

External links

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