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Applications for Halifax & Quebec City

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Dan Sys

There were some interesting applications released by the CRTC earlier this week which kind of took a back seat to all the hysteria associated with the CHUM 1050 flip.

In Halifax both Acadia Broadcasting and HFX Broadcasting have applied for new Triple A stations on 105.1 with 45,000 watts. 105.1 was supposed to have been the home of the new Global Halifax AC station (CHAL) several years ago, but those plans were abandoned when Global sold their existing radio properties to Corus. Also in Halifax Frank Torres has applied for a Blues station on 99.1 with 35,000 watts.

In Quebec City Evanov has proposed two new Soft AC facilities. One in French at 105.3 with 5,000 watts and the other in English at 105.7 also with 5,000 watts. If 105.7 is granted it will mark the first time a commercial English language station has operated in the market since 1975 when the now defunct CFOM 1340 became a CBC English rebroadcaster. Also Michel Cloutier has proposed a commercial French Language Jazz & Blues station at 105.7 with a whopping 170 watts.

In Alma CFGT 1270 has once again applied for an FM flip to 97.7 with 50,000 watts. This time the proposed contours of the station have been modified as well as those of sister station CHRL 99.5 in Roberval to avoid a conflict with the CRTC's common ownership policy. Also in Gatineau-Ottawa a repeater of Montreal's CIRA 91.3 (Radio Ville Marie) has been proposed for 1350 AM with 1,000 watts days and 180 watts nights.
 
Dan said:
In Quebec City Evanov has proposed two new Soft AC facilities. One in French at 105.3 with 5,000 watts and the other in English at 105.7 also with 5,000 watts. If 105.7 is granted it will mark the first time a commercial English language station has operated in the market since 1975 when the now defunct CFOM 1340 became a CBC English rebroadcaster.
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I note the CRTC release considers Evanov's 105.3 application mutually-exclusive with the 105.7 applications - both Cloutier's and Evanov's own.

Industry Canada has approved a small number of 2nd-adjacent operations (notably 105.1 and 105.5 in Toronto) but only if one of the two is a LP. That's not the case here. I wonder if Evanov figured both could be approved if they indicated they'd accept any interference they'd receive from each other?
 
A similar situation already exists out here on the West Coast. When Vancouver's CKBD 600 flipped to 100.5 FM last Fall (becomming CKPK with 11,000 watts) they had to contend with 100,000 watt CKKQ 100.3 in Victoria, about 45 miles away. The CRTC only approved the CKBD flip because both facilities are owned by the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group and if there were any interference issues that arose between the two stations it would be an "in house" problem to solve.

Thus far I haven't heard too many stories about problems with reception. In Vancouver itself CKPK (The Peak) has a dominant signal butchering CKKQ, as expected. However when you head out to the suburbs both CKPK and CKKQ are there with surprisingly clean signals of equal strength. A lot of people (including myself) said it wouldn't work, but I guess we've all been proven wrong. Some frequencies in major markets that were previously deemed as unusable could possibly be opened up now based on this example.

It will be interesting to see what happens with the Evanov applications in Quebec City.
 
Dan said:
A similar situation already exists out here on the West Coast. When Vancouver's CKBD 600 flipped to 100.5 FM last Fall (becomming CKPK with 11,000 watts) they had to contend with 100,000 watt CKKQ 100.3 in Victoria, about 45 miles away. The CRTC only approved the CKBD flip because both facilities are owned by the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group and if there were any interference issues that arose between the two stations it would be an "in house" problem to solve.

Thus far I haven't heard too many stories about problems with reception. In Vancouver itself CKPK (The Peak) has a dominant signal butchering CKKQ, as expected. However when you head out to the suburbs both CKPK and CKKQ are there with surprisingly clean signals of equal strength. A lot of people (including myself) said it wouldn't work, but I guess we've all been proven wrong. Some frequencies in major markets that were previously deemed as unusable could possibly be opened up now based on this example.
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Agreed -- down here we have a 6kw station on 100.1 about 50km to the south and a 100kw station on 100.3 about 70km to the north. Both come in just fine on a car radio, without mutual interference. There's a third, 100kw, station on 99.7 about 90km to the south and there isn't any adjacent-channel interference to/from it either.

From a technical standpoint I don't think there would be any problem with 105.3/105.7 co-existing in Quebec City.

Here in the States you'd never get the necessary relaxation in legacy 2nd-adjacency restrictions past the lobbyists. (heck, they couldn't get *3rd*-adjacency relaxation for *LP* stations past the lobbyists...) Industry Canada seems a lot more open to that.


It will be interesting to see what happens with the Evanov applications in Quebec City.
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