by jon » Sat Feb 20, 2016 3:12 pm
Two points of interest caught my attention.
(1) Three of the applications are for AM stations. All three are for 10,000 watts with multiple towers on new sites in Richmond and Surrey. On 600, 900 and 1650 KHz. At first glance, use of multiple towers on 1650 seems like an enormous waste of money, until I realized that was undoubtedly the only way they could get a decent night-time signal. Otherwise, they would very likely have been stuck with 1,000 watts at night, if they wanted to run non-directional, as that is how the frequencies were originally designed. Admittedly, the request for 1650 is only a third choice after two FM frequencies requested in the application by Ravinder Singh Pannu.
(2) The presence of some applicants who appear to be still involved in cross-border broadcasting on U.S. stations on 1550 and 1600. My reading of the CRTC ruling on the subject did not allow simply getting on-air hosts to cross the border and do their announcing from U.S. studios, as seems to still be the case.