Johnny Lombardi, an Italian Canadian bought Radio 1540 Limited from Rogers Broadcasting in 1965 with James Ditson Service, a lawyer and local politician.
[2] CHIN also produces ten hours a week of television programming, which airs on CITY-DT on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
CHIN produces television programming for the Portuguese, Caribbean, Pakistani, Hindi-speaking, Polish, Persian, Russian, Punjabi and Italian communities in Toronto.
[1] The event moved to Exhibition Place in 1983 as attendance had become too large to be easily transported by the Toronto Island ferries.
The bikini contests were cancelled in 2016 as "times have changed"[9] and so it would not "distract" from the rest of the festival and its message of cultural diversity.