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CHIN Radio/TV International (legally known as Radio 1540 Limited) is a Canadian radio and television broadcasting company, which owns and operates three radio stations and a television program production unit, all targeting multilingual communities. The company also holds the annual CHIN Picnic.

Started in 1966 by Johnny Lombardi, an Italian Canadian, the company produces and airs programming in 32 different languages. When Lombardi died in 2002, ownership of CHIN Radio/TV International passed to his son Lenny and daughters Theresa and Donina.

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Television

CHIN also produces ten hours a week of television programming, which airs on CITY-TV on Saturday and Sunday mornings. CHIN produces television programming for the Portuguese, Caribbean, Pakistani, Hindi, Polish, Persian, Russian, Punjabi and Italian communities in Toronto. CHIN television programming originally aired on CIII-TV, and later, briefly, on CKVR-TV.

CHIN Picnic

One of Toronto's most popular annual multicultural events, the CHIN Picnic is held every summer at the Canadian National Exhibition. The event, which spans several days, includes musical and dance performers, amusement park rides, an international shopping bazaar and international food concessions.

The first CHIN Picnic was held in 1967.

The picnic has also been controversial at times, as it includes a bikini contest. In response to allegations of sexism, the picnic later launched an annual Mr. CHIN Bikini contest for men.

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Radio is the wireless transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space.
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Television (often abbreviated to TV, T.V., or more recently, tv; sometimes called telly, the tube, boob tube, or idiot box in British English) is a widely used telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures
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multilingualism can refer to an occurrence regarding an individual speaker who uses two or more languages, a community of speakers where two or more languages are used, or between speakers of different languages.
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Johnny Barbalinardo Lombardi, C.M., O.Ont. (December 4, 1915 – March 18, 2002) was a pioneer of multicultural broadcasting in Canada.

The son of Italian immigrants, Lombardi was born in the Little Italy section of Toronto.
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Italian Canadian is a Canadian of Italian descent or heritage. Almost 1.3 million Canadians (4.33% of total population) consider themselves to be of Italian origin, as well as 2,465 (almost 0.
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CHIN (AM)

City of license Toronto, Ontario
Branding CHIN Radio
Slogan International Radio
First air date 1966
Frequency 1540 kHz (AM)
Format multilingual
Power 50 KW
Owner CHIN Radio/TV International
Website CHIN Radio CHIN
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CHIN (FM)

City of license Toronto, Ontario
Branding CHIN Radio
Slogan International Radio
First air date 1967
Frequency 100.7 MHz (FM)
Format multilingual
Power 8.
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City of Ottawa/Ville d'Ottawa

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Nickname: O-town- O.T - The 613
Motto: Advance Ottawa/Ottawa en avant
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City of license Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Broadcast area National Capital Region
Branding CHIN Ottawa
First air date 2003
Frequency 97.9 MHz (FM)
Format multi-language
ERP 6.
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CITY-TV (Citytv Toronto) (often referred to only as City) is a television station based in Toronto, Ontario. It is Canada's third-oldest UHF television station and the flagship station of the Citytv system.
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"A Portuguesa"


Capital
(and largest city) Lisbon5

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Caribbean (Dutch: Cariben or Caraïben, or more commonly Antillen; French: Caraïbe or more commonly Antilles; Spanish: Caribe
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اتحاد، تنظيم، يقين محکم
Ittehad, Tanzim, Yaqeen-e-Muhkam   (Urdu)
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Hindi}}} 
Writing system: Devanagari script 
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Official language of:  India
 Fiji (as Hindustani)
Regulated by: Central Hindi Directorate (only in India)[1]
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Mazurek Dąbrowskiego   (Polish)
Dąbrowski's Mazurek
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Pronunciation: [fɒːɾˈsiː]
Spoken in: Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and areas of Uzbekistan and Pakistan.
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Hymn of the Russian Federation


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Punjabi}}} 
Writing system: Shahmukhi, Gurmukhi  
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Official language of: Punjab (India), Punjab (Pakistan), Lahore, Amritsar, Firozpur Faisalabad and part of Kashmir
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Il Canto degli Italiani
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CIII-TV is a television station owned by CanWest Global that serves most of the Canadian province of Ontario. It is the flagship station of the Global Television Network.
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CKVR-TV (A-Channel Barrie/Toronto; formerly The New VR) is a television station in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Owned by CTVglobemedia, it is the flagship station of CTV's secondary broadcast service; A-Channel, with facilities located at 33 Beacon Road in Barrie.
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multiculturalism is used to describe the recognition of cultural and ethnic diversity within the demographics of a particular social space.

Some countries have official, or de jure, multiculturalism policies aimed at preserving different cultures or cultural identities
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Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), aka The Ex, is an annual event held at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The CNE grew out of an annual late summer fair at a time when Toronto was the centre of a farming community.
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A bikini contest is a beauty contest where women compete against each other in bikinis.

Bikini contests can take place in bars, nightclubs, at beaches, and beauty pageants.
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Sexism is commonly considered to be discrimination and/or hatred against people based on their sex rather than their individual merits, but can also refer to any and all systemic differentiations based on the sex of the individuals.
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