CJRJ

CJRJ
Vancouver, British Columbia;
Broadcast area	Metro Vancouver
Frequency	1200 kHz (AM)
Branding	Spice Radio
Programming
Format	Multicultural
Ownership
Owner	I.T. Productions Ltd.
History
First air date	November 25, 2006
Call sign meaning	CJ Rim Jhim
Technical information
Class	B
Power	25,000 watts
Transmitter coordinates	49°11′02″N 123°03′44″W / 49.183767°N 123.062333°W
Links
Webcast	Listen live
Website	spiceradio1200am.com

CJRJ (identified on air and in print as Spice Radio) is a Canadian radio station in the Metro Vancouver region of British Columbia. It broadcasts at 1200 kilohertz on the AM band with a power of 25,000 watts from a transmitter in Richmond, and its studio is located in Burnaby, British Columbia. The station is owned by I.T. Productions Ltd., which is owned by Shushma Datt.

Logo used as RJ1200, November 2006-September 2014.

Initial approval for a new ethnic radio station was granted on 21 July 2005 by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to serve the South Asian community in the Vancouver area.^[1] The station was licensed to broadcast with a power of 25,000 watts. Terms of the license included a stipulation that all programming in each broadcast week must be ethnic in nature. The station is required to provide programming in at least 17 different languages, targeted at no less than 11 different ethnic groups, with 95% of this programming to be in "third languages". 73% of this programming must be in the Punjabi and Hindustani languages. An additional term of the license, as per an intervention by Fairchild Radio Group (CJVB-AM, CHKG-FM Vancouver), is that CJRJ will not target Vancouver's Chinese community.

The station's sister station, Rim Jhim, continues to operate on the subsidiary communications multiplex operation (SCMO) subcarrier of CJJR-FM.

Programming

CJRJ's programming is primarily South Asian (Hindi and Punjabi), however it also airs some Bengali, Gujarati, Filipino, Italian, Malayalam, Persian, Tamil and Sinhala programming on weekends.