CHLY-FM (101.7 MHz) is a non-profit campus-community radio station in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.
Primarily funded by students of Vancouver Island University's Nanaimo campus, the station is also supported by donations and memberships from the community, as well as local advertising, sponsorships and grants.
It first began airing programming on April 1, 2000, before receiving a licence from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on June 5.
[3] CHLY aired a test signal at 101.7 FM on September 21, and ran promotional material about the station for two weeks before officially signing on at 6:00 p.m. on October 5, 2001.
[4] CHLY's studios are in the basement of the Queens Hotel on Victoria Crescent in downtown Nanaimo.