Red FM Vancouver
About Red FM Vancouver
Red FM Vancouver is the on-air brand of CKYE-FM, a commercial multicultural radio station serving Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It broadcasts on 93.1 FM, with a repeater on 89.1 FM in Surrey, and is aimed mainly at the region's South Asian community.
The station is owned by the South Asian Broadcasting Corporation and has its studios in Surrey. It began broadcasting in December 2005, and the name Red stands for Reflecting Ethnic Diversity. Most of the weekday schedule is in Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu, while weekend programmes are offered in a range of other languages.
Listeners can expect a mix of South Asian music including Punjabi and Bollywood songs, together with news, talk and community programming for the local diaspora. The online stream is a low bitrate AAC feed of roughly 32 kbps in mono, delivered over HTTPS, which suits mobile connections.
The official website for the Vancouver station is vancouver.redfm.ca, where schedules and contact details are published.