CIDC-FM
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| Broadcast area | Central Ontario, Greater Toronto Area |
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| Frequency | 103.5 MHz (HD Radio) |
| Branding | Z103.5 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Dance radio |
| Ownership | |
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| History | |
First air date | May 1, 1987 |
Call sign meaning | "Dufferin Communications" (licensee) |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | CRTC |
| Class | B |
| ERP | 30,700 watts |
| HAAT | 190.3 metres (624 ft) |
| Links | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | z1035.com |
CIDC-FM (103.5 FM, "Z103.5") is a radio station licensed to Orangeville, Ontario, Canada. Owned by Evanov Communications, the station broadcasts a dance radio format targeting the Greater Toronto Area. Its studios are located on Dundas Street West in the Eatonville neighbourhood in the Etobicoke district of Toronto, while its transmitter is located near Airport Rd and Charleston Sideroad in Sleswick.
CIDC has historically broadcast an electronic dance music-leaning rhythmic contemporary format; it has regularly featured DJ mixshows as part of its schedule, and has also sponsored local electronic music events and compilation albums. CIDC held a 2.0 share of the market in Numeris's Spring 2018 ratings.
In addition to Orangeville, its signal covers Barrie and Kitchener, rimshots Downtown Toronto, and can be heard as far north as Bracebridge, and as far south as Hamilton. It cannot be heard reliably in most of the Niagara Region due to the presence of adjacent-channel interference from WEDG, a radio station in Buffalo, New York. Due to CIDC rimshotting Downtown Toronto, Evanov has often promoted CIDC as being a Toronto station, and has made repeated attempts to move or modify CIDC's signal to better serve the GTA; almost all of these requests were denied by the CRTC for neglecting its formal city of licence. The CRTC also reprimanded CIDC for not specifically devoting enough on-air community interest programming, news, sports and information specific to Orangeville or Dufferin County, as specified in its original approval.