CKYE-FM 93.1 “Red FM” Vancouver, BC

About CKYE-FM 93.1 “Red FM” Vancouver, BC

CKYE-FM 93.1, known on-air as Red FM, is Vancouver’s multicultural radio station, broadcasting across 13 languages to the Lower Mainland’s South Asian and wider immigrant communities. Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu anchor the programming, with at least ten other languages filling out the schedule across the week.

For a city where nearly half the population speaks a language other than English at home, a station like this fills a real gap. Red FM is one of the few places on the dial where a Punjabi-speaking listener in Surrey or a Urdu speaker in Burnaby can tune in and hear programming made for them, not just subtitled toward them. The station streams free online at vancouver.redfm.ca, so listeners outside the FM signal can still pick it up. The stream runs in AAC+ format at 32 kbps, which is light enough to hold up on a mobile connection without much buffering.

The official site is the cleanest way in if you’re not near a radio, and the stream tends to carry live programming rather than a recorded loop. what’s on air is usually what’s on the stream.

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