CHEQ-FM
CHEQ-FM is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Sainte-Marie, Quebec.
Owned and operated by Attraction Radio, it broadcasts on 101.5 MHz with an effective radiated power of 26,000 watts using a directional antenna.
The station has an adult contemporary format and it identifies itself as O 101,5. It originally went on the air as an AM station and broadcast on 1360 kHz. The station's original call sign, CJVL, was abandoned when the station moved to FM in 1998; the FM transmitter went on the air at 101.3 FM on November 29, 1998. The call sign CHEQ-FM was previously used by a station in Smiths Falls, Ontario, now known as CKBY-FM.
On August 14, 2008, the licensee proposes to change the frequency of station CHEQ-FM from 101.3 MHz to 101.5 MHz. The station received approval on August 19, 2009.
Unknown, the station is owned by Arsenal Media, who owns a number of radio stations in Quebec.
On October 28, 2019, the CRTC approved 10679313 Canada Inc. application to operate a French-language commercial FM radio programming undertaking in Sainte-Marie, Quebec. The station will operate at 105.3 MHz with an average effective radiated power of 1,159 watts. The call sign for the new 105.3 will be CKAQ-FMand will be a sister station to CHEQ-FM.
