107.7 FM CJRO Carlsbad Springs, Ontario Canada

The Beat - CJRO Radio is a low power bilingual community non-profit FM radio station that promotes local and regional events, provides important information and news to residents and the public in south-east rural Ottawa, Russell Municipality, Casselman Municipality, La Nation Municipality and the Clarence-Rockland area.

CJRO is licensed by the CRTC to play a variety of music (rock, country, french country, celtic and more). It’s available on 107.7 FM in Carlsbad Springs and Embrun, in the village of Vars, Casselman and Sarsfield on 107.9 FM. In Casselman on 96.3 FM (coming in the Spring of 2026). The station streams online on cjroradio.com. CJRO Radio is available on IHeart Radio, Tune In and Radio Player Canada applications via Iphone and Android phones.

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CJRO has a bilingual license from the CRTC and ensures through its mandate the promotion of linguistic duality within the communities served (Carlsbad Springs, Vars, Sarsfield and Navan in rural eastern Ottawa and in Embrun and Russell in the Municipality of Russell and the Municipality of Casselman) .

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The radio station broadcasts on the frequency of 107.7 and 107.9 on the FM band with 4 small low-power transmitters, allowing it to broadcast over a larger territory. In order to serve all the people in its community, CJRO FM offers its listeners a diversified programming. One of the main goals of the station is to keep the community well informed with local and regional news that is not necessarily broadcast by other regional and commercial radio stations. The entire radio station team works hard to make its programming one that reflects the cultural, economic, political, educational and social portrait of its region. As a non-profit organization, CJRO Radio's annual revenue is made up of various grants, revenues from radio advertisements and community partners.

CJRO FM is known as The Beat - CJRO Radio and was registered as a non-profit organization in May 2021. The first airing was in May 2019 in Carlsbad Springs and Vars and 2021 in Embrun and Sarsfield and in Casselman in 2023.

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CJRO Radio is owned and operated by CJRO Radio inc., a non profit incorporation manage by a volunteer board members. CJRO Radio broadcast from a studio inside the Carlsbad Springs Community Centre at 6020 Piperville Road in Carlsbad Springs from an antenna broadcasting on 107.7 FM located at Harkness park, another antenna broadcasting on 107.7 FM located at the Russell Township Municipal building and another antenna in the heart of the village of Vars on 107.9 FM, an antenna on a silo in the village of Sarsfield and an antenna on top of the water tower in the village of Casselman on 96.3 FM. Our programming is all done by volunteers and we offer volunteer opportunities for those interested in producing their own shows, host a podcast or just to help out manage the station on the executive board. CJRO Radio's motto is Local First.