December 2011 Canadian Radio News

[Dan Sys]

CANADIAN RADIO NEWS

For DECEMBER, 2011

JANUARY 1, 2012

RADIO ACTIVITY

FORMAT CHANGES
MB Winnipeg 99.1 CJGV From Smooth Jazz-R&B Classics (Groove FM) to Hot AC (will officially launch on February 14th)

NEW STATIONS LAUNCHED
BC Cortes Island 89.5 CKTZ Community (Cortes Community Radio Society)
ON Atikokan 93.5 CKPR-2 AC (simulcasts CKPR 91.5 Thunder Bay)

STATIONS TESTING
ON Cobourg 90.7 CHJJ Christian (UCB 90.7)
ON Fergus 92.9 CICW Community (The Grand) (will launch in late January)

AM TO FM CONVERSIONS ON THE AIR
AB Saint Paul 97.7 CHSP From 1310 (as CHLW) (Country) (The Spur)

CALL LETTER DATA
BC Field 97.1 CBRD Will become CBTK-1 (when flip from 860 occurs)
NS Micmac 97.1 new Will become CIPU
ON Fort Erie 101.1 CKEY Becomes CFLZ
ON Mississauga 960 new Will become CKNT
ON Niagara Falls 105.1 CFLZ Becomes CJED

BRANDINGS
AB Airdrie 106.1 CFIT From THE RANGE to AIR 106.1 (includes CFIT-1 91.5 Cochrane) (format remains Hot AC)
MB Winnipeg 100.7 CFJL From K-ROCK (as CHNK) to THE BREEZE (it was erroneously reported that the station would be rebranding to The Lounge in last months column, sorry for any confusion this caused)

OFF THE AIR
AB Saint Paul 1310 CHLW Went dark immediately after FM flip to CHSP 97.7 without utilizing authorized 90 day simulcast period
QC Sherbrooke 104.5 CJTS When Cogeco purchased the Corus properties in Quebec in 2010 CJTS was one of several stations they inherited that breached the CRTC's common ownership policy. Cogeco had one year to divest this station, but claims no one was interested in purchasing it. The CRTC officially rescinded the license on December 23, 2011

CRTC & IC DECISIONS

NEW STATIONS GRANTED
NS Micmac (Indian Brook) 97.1 50 watts (Aboriginal) (Mikmaw First Nation)
NU Iqaluit 91.1 800 watts (CBC North) (nested repeater for CFFB 1230 Iqaluit)
ON Mattawa 93.9 50 watts (Christian) (will simulcast CJTK-1 103.5 North Bay)
ON Scarborough 105.9 45 watts (South Asian-Tamil) (Subanasiri Vaithilingham - Tamil One)

AM TO FM CONVERSIONS GRANTED
BC Field 860 CBRD Move to 97.1 with 9 watts

TECHNICAL CHANGES GRANTED
AB Red Deer 90.5 CKRD Increase power from 9,000 to 18,400 watts (18,000 to 38,000 watts Max. ERP)
MB Selkirk 105.5 CICY Raise antenna height and relocate transmitter

OWNERSHIP CHANGES GRANTED
AB Edmonton 107.1 CJNW From John Yerxa to Harvard Broadcasting
BC Vancouver 104.3 CHHR From Shore Media Group to Astral Media

EXTENSIONS GRANTED
ON Beeton-Tottenham 105.1 CJBT-cp Frank Rogers has until August 1, 2012 to get this station on the air. This will be the final extension to be granted by the CRTC

DENIALS
QC Mont Joli (Rimouski) 93.3 CFYX Denied application to remove the condition of license that prohibits them from soliciting local advertising in the Baie Comeau area

CRTC APPLICATIONS

PROPOSED TECHNICAL CHANGES
ON Hearst 92.9 CHYK-3 Increase power from 140 to 172 watts (221 watts Max. ERP), lower antenna height and relocate transmitter
ON Wallaceburg 99.1 CKXS Increase power from 655 to 1,100 watts (1,150 watts to 3,000 watts Max. ERP) and raise antenna height
ON Windsor 102.3 CJNR-cp 1,900 watts (5,000 watts Max. ERP) (Multilingual) (Neeti P. Ray) (previously approved but applied frequency of 95.9 was not available)

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Next update February 1, 2012
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