CJWI
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| City | Montreal, Quebec |
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| Branding | CPAM Radio Union |
| Frequency | 1410 kHz (AM) |
| First air date | 2002 |
| Format | multilingual |
| Power | 10,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Transmitter coordinates | 45°33′51.84″N 73°36′25.92″W / 45.5644000°N 73.6072000°W |
| Former frequencies | 1610 kHz (2002-2009) |
| Owner | Groupe Médias Pam Inc. |
| Sister stations | CJMS |
| Webcast | CJWI listen live |
| Website | www.cpam1410.com |
CJWI (1410 AM) – also known as CPAM Radio Union - is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec. Its studios are located on East Cremazie Boulevard in Montreal.
Owned and operated by Groupe Médias Pam Inc., a licensee owned by Jean-Ernest Pierre, an Haitian-born lawyer and businessman who immigrated to Canada in the late 1970s, CJWI used to broadcast on 1610 kHz with a power of 1,000 watts as a class C station, using an omnidirectional antenna. Because of its location on a sparsely populated extended band frequency, its signal has been heard by DXers everywhere in North America since it opened during the summer of 2002. The station received CRTC approval to operate a new French-language ethnic AM radio station in Montréal on November 7, 2001.
The station has a variety format targeting ethnic minorities, primarily Haitian immigrants but also the Latin American and French-speaking African communities. Programming is predominately Creole, it also features programming in French and Spanish. It is known as "CPAM Radio Union", although on-air is identified as CPAM 1410.
CJWI had the particularity of having its transmitter site on the top of a building, a rarity among AM stations. It used a short Valcom fibreglass whip antenna mounted atop a warehouse located on Jarry Boulevard in Montreal, near Autoroute 40.
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