Canadian Radio News for July, 2012

Canadian Radio News for July, 2012

Postby Dan Sys » Thu Aug 02, 2012 10:46 am

CANADIAN RADIO NEWS

For JULY, 2012

AUGUST 1, 2012

RADIO ACTIVITY

FORMAT CHANGES
AB High River-Okotoks 100.9 CKUV From Classic Hits-Hot AC to Classic Rock (remains The Eagle)
PE Charlottetown 93.1 CHLQ From Classic Hits-Oldies (Magic 93) to Classic Rock (Q93)

NEW STATIONS LAUNCHED
BC Williams Lake 100.7 CJLJ Aboriginal (Sugar Cane FM)
MB Arborg 99.5 CJIE-2 Country-Hot AC (simulcasts CJIE 107.5 Winnipeg Beach)
MB Ebb and Flow 101.3 CKEB Aboriginal (Da Flow)

AM TO FM CONVERSIONS ON THE AIR
YT Whitehorse 94.5 CFWH From 570 (the AM to FM flip occurred in early June, but we just recently learnt about it)

BRANDINGS
BC Vancouver 96.9 CKLG Positioning statement has changed from "Playing What We Want" to "Playing Whatever Whenever"

TECHNICAL CHANGES ON THE AIR
BC Salmo 91.1 CFAD Moved from 92.1 and increased power from 5 watts to 60 watts

OFF THE AIR
MB Winnipeg 92.9 CKIC Went dark on July 4th after Red River College discontinued funding for the station

CRTC & IC DECISIONS

AM TO FM CONVERSIONS GRANTED
MB Winkler-Morden 1570 CKMW Moving to 103.7 with 61,600 watts (100,000 watts max. ERP) (format will remain Country)

TECHNICAL CHANGES GRANTED
QC Levis 102.1 CFEL Reduce power from 26,500 to 9,120 watts (78,000 to 33,900 watts maximum ERP) and raise antenna height.

OWNERSHIP CHANGES GRANTED
BC Vancouver 89.3 CFVT From 4600 Robson Square Services to South Fraser Broadcasting

EXTENSIONS GRANTED
AB Calgary 700 CJLI-cp Touch Canada Broadcasting (a division of Allarco Entertainment) has until April 24, 2013 to get this station on the air. Issues with securing a suitable site for the transmitter and towers were cited as the reason for delays in getting the station off the ground

CRTC APPLICATIONS

PROPOSED NEW STATIONS
ON Saint Catharines 1220 10,000 watts fulltime (88% AC-Oldies / 12% Ethnic) (Subanasiri Vaithilingam) (calls will be CHSC) (will utilize transmitting equipment from the now defunct CHSC 1220)
QC Kuujjuaq 105.1 50 watts (CBC Premiere Chaine)
QC Kuujjuarapik 105.1 50 watts (CBC Premiere Chaine)
QC Montreal 600 10,000 watts (days) / 5,000 watts (nights) (News-Talk) (English) (Tietolman-Tetrault-Pancholy Media)
QC Montreal 91.3 SCMO (Spanish) (La Fiesta Latina FM) (CIRA 91.3 Montreal will be leasing their SCMO subchannel to this group)
YT Whitehorse 95.3 50 watts (CBC Radio One) (will simulcast CFWH 94.5 Whitehorse) (required due to deficiencies in the north end of Whitehorse with the new converted AM to FM signal)

PROPOSED AM TO FM CONVERSIONS
NT Yellowknife 1340 CFYK Move to 98.9 with 1,200 watts

PROPOSED TECHNICAL CHANGES
ON Woodstock 103.9 CKDK Reduce power from 52,000 to 51,000 watts, raise antenna height, and relocate transmitter
QC Shawinigan 91.1 CFUT Move to 92.9, increase power from 199 to 3,750 watts (250 to 3,750 watts Max. ERP), raise antenna height, and relocate transmitter

PROPOSED CHANGES TO PROGRAMMING
QC Montreal 690 CKGM Bell Media has applied to convert CKGM 990 (TSN Radio) from an English language Sports station to a French language Sports station (RDS) when the station moves to 690 this Fall


Next update September 1, 2012
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Re: Canadian Radio News for July, 2012

Postby CKNF » Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:52 am

Dan Sys wrote:EXTENSIONS GRANTED
AB Calgary 700 CJLI-cp Touch Canada Broadcasting (a division of Allarco Entertainment) has until April 24, 2013 to get this station on the air. Issues with securing a suitable site for the transmitter and towers were cited as the reason for delays in getting the station off the ground

Oh wow. I was almost certain that this was completely dead in the water by now. So does anyone know if these guys have secured any land yet? I would have thought that that would have needed to be arranged as a condition of license, no? How do they get the technical blessing by IC if they don't know where the towers are going to be?
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Re: Canadian Radio News for July, 2012

Postby Dan Sys » Thu Aug 02, 2012 5:43 pm

CKNF.....the way I read the situation is Touch Canada had purchased land south of Black Diamond in the Municipal District of Foothills to construct the transmitter site with assurances from the Municipal Council that the plans would be approved. However there was such a stink raised by residents from nearby properties that the Municipal Council rejected the plans in the end. However, it appears as if they are working with Touch Canada to find an alternate site.

Scroll down to Item #1 in Appendix 2 on this page and open up the underlined "2012-0178-0" link:
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2012/2012-400.htm
All the files within will provide you with some interesting reading, especially the file at the top of the list: DM#1674086 (Microsoft Office Word 97 - 3,659 KB).
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Re: Canadian Radio News for July, 2012

Postby albertaboy4life » Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:24 pm

The timing of the deadline isn't great either. Good luck trying to get radials into frozen ground. They will be contending with mud or snow leading up to the deadline unless they get to work on the land this fall.
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Re: Canadian Radio News for July, 2012

Postby Dan Sys » Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:10 pm

I would also like to point out that this all went down back on March 5th, but it did not appear on the CRTC site until July 24th. So who knows if there has been any progress finding a suitable site for the transmitter & towers during the past 5 months?
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