CISM-FM

CISM-FM

City of license	Montreal, Quebec
Broadcast area	Greater Montreal area
Branding	CISM 89,3 FM -- la marge
Frequency	89.3 MHz
First air date	March 14, 1991
Format	campus radio
ERP	10 kW
Class	B
Callsign meaning	Communication Information Sur la Montagne
Owner	Communication du Versant Nord inc. (non-profit organisation)
Website	www.cism.umontreal.ca

CISM-FM (Communication Information Sur la Montagne) is the official radio station of Université de Montréal. It is student-run on a volunteer basis and can be heard in Montreal, Canada, and its outlying regions, or by internet users around the world through live-streaming technology (Flash only). A great variety of shows are broadcast daily in the French language.

As early as 1970, Université de Montréal students developed the idea of a French college radio station. In 1980, a requested feasibility study gave place to recommendations for a potential radio broadcasting school. At noon on October 7, 1985, CISM broadcast its first radio show over the university's campus. In July 1990, CISM gained its FM broadcast permit from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Then, on March 14, 1991, CISM's broadcasting antenna (located atop Mount Royal) was boosted to 10,000 watts. With a broadcasting radius of 70 km, CISM is now the world's largest French-language college radio station.

The station also broadcasts a Tamil language radio format on a subsidiary communications multiplex operation frequency, branded as International Tamil Radio (ITR-FM). ITR-FM has recently been granted approval for a 50-watt station on FM 102.9 in the Ahuntsic neighbourhood.

External links

• CISM 89,3 FM
• CISM-FM history - Canadian Communications Foundation
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CISM-FM