I wanted to start a new thread to focus purely on how to make Radio on Salt Spring Island "work". Rather than just tagging this on the CRTC hearing on CFSI: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=21520
If it is possible to step back for a moment to ignore CFSI's history, without losing sight of the conclusion in the aforementioned thread, that a stand-alone station cannot survive in the current Island economy, what about this Scenario? Twinning it with another station, with local programming in AM and PM Drive, and perhaps all or part of a Noon News Package, much as we saw in the 1960s with CFCP Courtenay and CFWB Campbell River. After all these years, and not a lot of time spent listening, I'm a little rusty on the details, but I think that CFCP ran as more of a regional station when CFWB was simulcast, covering information for both Courtenay and Campbell River, and wherever else the two transmitters provided adequate signal coverage.
Two questions. Would it work? What are the best candidates? It would be easy for me, hundreds of miles away, to make suggestions by simply looking at a map for the closest markets with radio stations, but a more important factor is what the majority of Salt Spring Island residents identify with as "their closest neighbour", in terms of radio markets. Which can also be influenced by what stations they currently listen to.