FM 104 CityLink Chiang Mai back on the air
After weeks of uncertainty, one of Chiang Mai, Thailand’s few Christian owned radio stations is back on the air! The station’s General Manager, Manop Moonsri stated, “we have had transmitter as well as location problems for the last several months but today we are back on the air at full power!”
CityLink-Chiang Mai was started by Moonsri and several Christian groups in 2005, taking over an existing station. In 2009, that location was lost to the station. On top of these problems, CityLink-Chiang Mai started to have transmitter problems. The station had inherited an old Thai manufactured unit that was overheating. HCJB-GLOBAL, a radio ministry founded in 
1931 as a Christian shortwave station came to the rescue and donated a high quality 600-watt transmitter manufactured by Crown Broadcasting. This unit was installed by HCJB engineer, John Brewer. Several months later, that new transmitter failed and yesterday afternoon Brewer installed a new unit.
“We appreciate the donation of transmitter and antenna by HCJB and look forward to their continued partnership. In fact. CityLink-Chiang Mai has a number of hurdles to overcome. Right now, DJ Kuhn Noi is a volunteer and to grow we need to raise the funds necessary to pay our DJs and electricity. We need local people to step up and help develop programming, both Thai and English,” Moonsri stated.
Right now the station is gearing up for the Christmas season. Many Thai’s are curious about Christmas and CityLink-Chiang Mai is developing short interviews about the meaning of the holiday. In fact, Christmas has many events by churches and schools that CityLink-Chiang Mai will support through broadcasting.
FM 104 CityLink Chiang Mai is working with Nation Entertainment to re-tool their popular NEVER TOO LATE (NTL) dramatic radio series for distribution in a programming block with music and to other low power and program hungry stations. The 120 episodes of NTL aired on stations in 36 provinces in Thailand several years ago. It is a story of a family of four struggling to live in modern Thailand. It covers social issues like AIDS, handicapped children, sex out of wedlock and corruption. The main character, Annop, is a man much like the Biblical character Boaz in his approach to relationships and love of his family.
