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	CHNS-FM
City of license	Halifax, Nova Scotia
Branding	89.9 Hal FM
Frequency	89.9 MHz (FM)
First air date	1926
Format	Classic rock
Callsign meaning	C Halifax Nova Scotia
Owner	Maritime Broadcasting System
Sister stations	CHFX-FM
Website	89.9 Hal FM

For the radio station that began as CHNS-FM, see CHFX-FM.

CHNS-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting from Halifax, Nova Scotia on 89.9 FM. It offers a classic rock format branded as Hal FM. CHNS-FM is owned and operated by the Maritime Broadcasting System.

CHNS was Nova Scotia's first radio station, first hitting the airwaves in 1926. It switched between 910 and 930 AM a couple of times before finally switching to 960 in 1941. It was the host of Canadian National Railway radio "phantom station" CNRH until that network was disbanded. CHNS was an affiliate of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission from 1933 to 1936 when the network became the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It acted as a CBC outlet until 1944 when CBH was launched as a CBC-owned station and CHNS became an affiliate of the CBC's Dominion Network until 1964. From the 1940s to the 1980s, CHNS 960 AM played host to many of Canada's top broadcasters, including: Knowlton Nash, Mike Duffy, Bob Oxley, Jessie Coade, Gerry Parsons, Frank Cameron, Stan Carew, and Ian Hanomansing.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the station played an adult contemporary format before flipping to oldies in February 1992 and branding itself "Oldies 96 CHNS". In its Oldies 96 CHNS days, it broadcast its programming in rich-sounding C-QUAM stereo. CHNS also simulcasted on shortwave on 6130 kHz on the 49 meter band on the call letters CHNX until 2001. ^[1]

The station received CRTC approval to move to the FM dial in April 2006 ^[2] and moved to its current frequency at 89.9 FM in July 2006 adopting a classic rock format as 89.9 Hal FM. CHNS was given permission to simulcast the FM programming for 90 days on 960 AM and so, on October 19, 2006, CHNS' AM signal was shut down for the last time, putting an end to its long history on the AM airwaves.