AVR actually gets another one on the air!

[Aaron]

On Saturday, AVR Radio signed on their second station. The Ottawa signal at 95.7 is in test mode with just 50 watts - fed by an I-Pod.

[Glen Livingstone]

On Saturday, AVR Radio signed on their second station. The Ottawa signal at 95.7 is in test mode with just 50 watts - fed by an I-Pod.

An iPod huh?

Good thing that long-awaited funding came through.

Those things can set you back a couple of hundred bucks.

[tuned]

That is just to test the frequency for interference etc. They did the same thing in Vancouver over a year ago, doesn't mean they have the funding to actually go on the air.

[Aaron]

This is actually different. The Vancouver tests were to test the suitability of the frequency. That's not the case in Ottawa. The Ottawa transmitter will become a simulcast of the Toronto signal on June 30.

[tuned]

A simulcast or an ipod what's the difference? I guess the ipod is local. It seems like a waste of a good freqency to allow this. Why can't Corus just run a classic rock station out of Toronto and simulcast it across the country? There is no good reason for AVR to exist other than another feeble attempt at political correctness. If the aboriginal population wants a specialized service then they should have to pay for it like everyone else. My guess is that they don't and want to be entertained just like the rest of us.

[Aaron]

Agree. Little of the music on the Toronto station is traditional native music anyway. It's just pop music from groups who happen to have a native member or 2. You could better serve a native audience with a 2-hour show weekends on CBC or something.

[tuned]

That is a good thought. There is no reason why the natives couldn't be served by the CBC instead of hogging scare FM frequencies in every major market in Canada for marginal programming that mainly benefits the taxpayer supported workers at AVR.
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