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...The winds of change have hit Breeze 103 like a bit of a chinook, as the station becomes 'California 103 FM'. Hard to tell what the music is since the streamer is broken, but from all apperances seems pretty mellow. (Wonder how a station called 'California' will play on those days when the Deerfoot becomes a skating rink?)

...Live 88.5 hits the airwaves in Ottawa. Streaming audio is broken there too. Plus, 'Now Playing' ain't workin. The slogan - 'Live Life Live'

...Cafe 100.7 launches in Winnipeg on the station formerly known as The Breeze 100.7. Same logo-face as Live... The slogan - "Live. Love. Listen."
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Canadian RadioDude on 12/26/05 08:44 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> ...Cafe 100.7 launches in Winnipeg on the station formerly
> known as The Breeze 100.7. Same logo-face as Live... The
> slogan - "Live. Love. Listen."
>
I noticed the call letters for that station are now CKFE. What were the Call letters before?<P ID="signature">______________
"If you never say NO, How much is your YES worth?"
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> I noticed the call letters for that station are now CKFE.
> What were the Call letters before?

CHNR. Newcap recently completed its purchase of the station.
 
> > I noticed the call letters for that station are now CKFE.
> > What were the Call letters before?
>
> CHNR. Newcap recently completed its purchase of the
> station.
>
Thank-you.
I'm aware of the purchase. The question now is, what happens to the CHNR calls, are they "On the shelf" for anyone to use, or does Newcap plan to use them at another radio station they own. 'NR could stand for Newcap radio, or, it could mean News Radio, or, heck, even a station flipping to New rock can pick them up...<P ID="signature">______________
"If you never say NO, How much is your YES worth?"
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> > > I noticed the call letters for that station are now
> CKFE.
> > > What were the Call letters before?
> >
> > CHNR. Newcap recently completed its purchase of the
> > station.
> >
> Thank-you.
> I'm aware of the purchase. The question now is, what happens
> to the CHNR calls, are they "On the shelf" for anyone to
> use, or does Newcap plan to use them at another radio
> station they own. 'NR could stand for Newcap radio, or, it
> could mean News Radio, or, heck, even a station flipping to
> New rock can pick them up...
>

Unless they've moved them to one of their own smaller stations, they're now available.
 
> Unless they've moved them to one of their own smaller
> stations, they're now available.
>
That would be what I'm more/less saying. Good calls to grab...if they're available...unless there's important history behind them that make it wise to keep them in that market...
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"If you never say NO, How much is your YES worth?"
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I think that Industry Canada holds callsigns for some period before reallocating them and has a policy which limits them from going back into the same marketplace a short time later.

Interested in this post, since I was the one that selected the call several years ago.

Lee
 
> I think that Industry Canada holds callsigns for some period
> before reallocating them and has a policy which limits them
> from going back into the same marketplace a short time
> later.
>
> Interested in this post, since I was the one that selected
> the call several years ago.
>
> Lee
>
You may be correct, but I'm not sure. A good example would be in Hamilton Ontario. Not many people know this, but when CKOC first made the switch to the all oldies format from hit music, the call letters were actually changed to CKMO...as in CK Most Oldies, but then shortly after, the call letters were switched back to CKOC.
If the freedom is there to grab abandoned call letters, CKOC may or may not have gotten them back so easily!<P ID="signature">______________
"If you never say NO, How much is your YES worth?"
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> > I think that Industry Canada holds callsigns for some
> period
> > before reallocating them and has a policy which limits
> them
> > from going back into the same marketplace a short time
> > later.
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I don't believe callsigns are held for all that long, since CISS-FM showed up in Ottawa when it left Toronto. Rogers basically transferred the calls from one city to another.

On the topic of NewCap...I have heard that since NewCap purchased Midwest Television in Lloydminster, the newscasts on the CKSA/CITL twinstick are now known as "NewCap News", although the call letters continue to be promoted. Funny how we now have news in Ontario named after Alberta (A-Channel), and news in Alberta/Saskatchewan named after Newfoundland.

Why don't we just recycle ATV over to a station in BC?<P ID="signature">______________
From WNBC-TV New York this is Liiiiive at Fiiiiive!</P><P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by mjlarochelle on 12/30/05 02:01 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> > > I think that Industry Canada holds callsigns for some
> > period
> > > before reallocating them and has a policy which limits
> > them
> > > from going back into the same marketplace a short time
> > > later.
> ---------
> I don't believe callsigns are held for all that long, since
> CISS-FM showed up in Ottawa when it left Toronto. Rogers
> basically transferred the calls from one city to another.

But that's a case where a company relocates call letters to a sister station in another market.
What if Kiss were to be called something else? If Rogers wanted to use call letters that another station, owned by another company, recently droped, can they?...or is that where things get complicated?<P ID="signature">______________
"If you never say NO, How much is your YES worth?"
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Why not just pick up the phone and talk to Industry Canada about their callsign assignment policies. They've always been quite easy to deal with in my experience.

As a long-time admirer and ex-employee of CKLW before the CRTC screwed them up, I applied for CILW as my first choice in Winnipeg rather than CHNR. Unfortunately, there is a station in Steinbach with CILT which was considered to be sufficiently similar phonetically to violate Industry Canada's policy of no calls that sound alike within a 300 Km radius. I could have had them assigned IF the owners of Steinbach gave me written permission ... fat chance of that since not many owners would give a competitor a glass of underarm sweat to a guy dying of thirst in the desert.

Too bad ... some "re-sings" of the CKLW Drake jingle package would have sounded great.

Lee
 
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