CANADIAN RADIO NEWS FOR JULY, 2012

[Dan Sys]

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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[spunker88]

Its too bad TSN is going French, it would have had great skywave coverage for nighttime hockey games except for WLW's IBOC effects.

 

[mimo]

Its too bad TSN is going French, it would have had great skywave coverage for nighttime hockey games except for WLW's IBOC effects.

It's not a done deal. It's only a proposed change and there are thousands of interventions filed with the crtc (including one of my own, due to the fact they applied for 690 to better serve the ENGLISH speaking population) against this proposal.

 

[mjlarochelle]

Its too bad TSN is going French, it would have had great skywave coverage for nighttime hockey games except for WLW's IBOC effects.

It's not a done deal. It's only a proposed change and there are thousands of interventions filed with the crtc (including one of my own, due to the fact they applied for 690 to better serve the ENGLISH speaking population) against this proposal.

I'm against it for the same reason; Montreal has few English stations and they should not be losing any more (already lost CKO and CINW/CIQC, and CKOI and the late CINF/CKVL used to be bilingual before going all-French). Bell should just sell the station to Rogers, Cogeco, or to an independent operator; with Rogers it would go well with CJNT-TV which they are acquiring, and it could become Sportsnet 690.

If that new English talk station on AM 600 is approved, I would have less of a problem with CKGM switching to French.

 

[mimo]

I would still have a problem since there was a successful sports station in French (CKAC 730) which short-sighted corporate thinking decided that turning it into an all traffic station was a better idea. Granted they didn't have high numbers either. However it is a fact that Franco sports fans have switched to TSN to get their sports fix. I've read accounts of people doing so on the radio in montreal yahoo page.