In 2008, Neeti P. Ray, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated, received approval in part from the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to operate a new ethnic FM radio station (
CJNR-FM) to serve Windsor at 95.9 MHz. However, the 95.9 MHz frequency was awarded to
Blackburn Radio's
CJWF-FM which launched in November 2009. In 2009, the Commission approved the application by the
CBC to convert
CBC Radio One outlet
CBE from 1550 kHz to 97.5 MHz, making their plans to install a nested transmitter at 102.3 obsolete. As a result, the 102.3 MHz frequency became available by September 2011. On December 13, 2011, Ray filed an application to allow CJNR-FM to operate at 102.3 MHz; this was approved on March 2, 2012. The station launched on September 6, 2012, having changed its callsign to CINA-FM (after Mississauga/Toronto sister station
CINA AM). ==Programming==