flyonthewall wrote:If this is true, good for the CRTC.
CKNF wrote:flyonthewall wrote:If this is true, good for the CRTC.
How is that good?
(Just curious)
Anotherwpgguy wrote:I'm wondering too ..... so how is blocking this sale by the CRTC considered to be good?
Forcing Shore's owners to flush dollar after dollar down the drain for another three years, and possibly go into personal bankruptcy as they've guaranteed business lines of credit with their homes, life savings, money borrowed from gramma, and every other dollar they could scape together to try and bring their dream of having a viable station isn't anything great for radio. Why not give someone else with deeper pockets the chance to pick up the infrastructure and existing facility and image of the brand ... (regrettably, what little there is,) and then apply their own research to a new approach?
Surely its not a positive for the owners to be slowly starving to death, staff to have pay cuts and stress, and listeners being underserved. Shore 104 gave it a good go at first, and put out a decent product. The team strongly believed in what their guts and research showed should translate into enough revenue to allow an independent station to stay on the air and grow into a viable business. As it turns out, Shore found it to be somewhere between hard and impossible to raise enough cash flow because time sales of a non-group, stand-alone station is a very hard row to hoe.
Anotherwpgguy
GrumpyOldMan wrote:Some of you really need to give your heads a shake. You're saying good on the CRTC for enforcing a "no-sale" clause on the SHORE. How about the CRTC not granting the freaking license in the first place? Kind of hypocritical if you ask me. They grant 2 triple A licenses in the same month. Surely they would have known that one of those stations was going to fail.
What will Astral do now is the next big question. Everyone knows that they would love to flip CISL 650 to FM, but there just aren't any suitable frequencies available for an outright FM flip.
However if I might offer a suggestion here I would recommend Astral have a chat with the folks at SFU about the possibility of swapping frequencies with CJSF 90.1 (much like Rogers did 10 years ago with CJVI 900 & Camosun College's CKMO 103.1 in Victoria). CJSF operates with only 450 watts, but I could see room for a much more powerful Vancouver station on 90.1 as the only stations you would have to protect to a degree would be CJSU 89.7 Duncan & CBC Victoria at 90.5. There is nothing on 89.9 or 90.3 on the Canadian side of the border and nearby U.S. signals on those frequencies are low power. You would likely displace CJMP 90.1 in Powell River, but I'm sure they'd be happy to accept some Astral bucks to find a new frequency for their 4 watt operation.
I'm not too savvy on the technical side of things, but it seems like a realistic scenario to me. Let's hear what some of the experts have to say.
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