Z103.5
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| City | Orangeville, Ontario |
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| Branding | "Z 103-5" |
| Slogan | All The Hits |
| Frequency | 103.5 (MHz) |
| First air date | May 1, 1987 |
| Format | Rhythmic-Leaning CHR |
| ERP | 30,700 watts |
| HAAT | 190.3 metres |
| Class | B |
| Callsign meaning | CI Dufferin Communications (Former owners) |
| Owner | Evanov Communications |
| Website | www.z1035.com |
CIDC-FM (Z103.5) is a Rhythmic-Leaning CHR radio station that serves Central Ontario and the Greater Toronto Area in Canada. Although the station is licensed to Orangeville, and still has a transmitter there, its studios are located on Dundas Street West in the Eatonville neighbourhood of Toronto. The station is owned by Evanov Communications. The station is well known for including a certain degree of dance music in its playlist, similar to CJFM-FM in Montreal.
Due to the location of its transmitter, CIDC's signal can be heard in Barrie and Kitchener. During good DXing conditions, however, CIDC's signal can be interfered from WRTS-FM (on 103.7 MHz) in Erie, Pennsylvania.
CIDC has also been voted as the CHR station of the year for Canada at the Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Awards. It is also the longest-running FM top 40 station in Toronto, starting as a dance station in 1995, and then later as a top 40/dance hybrid since 1998, and finally to its current full-time top 40 status in 2009.
The Orangeville area was struck by a massive F4 tornado on May 31, 1985, and the community felt it did not receive adequate warning. As such, an application was made to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a radio station to serve Orangeville. CRTC approval was given for the station on September 10, 1986. The station's frequency allocation was moved from Guelph to Orangeville to allow for the service. CIDC was launched on May 1, 1987 on 103.5 FM with an ERP of 50,000 watts from a site located northwest of the town. The height of the hill (527.3 m) and tower (98.1 m) made the station antenna (0.6 m) higher above sea level than the CN Tower. The format carried on the station was 70's/80's hits and was branded as DC 103.5.
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