Regional Public Radio in Canada

[e-dawg]

Besides CKUA in Alberta, does other provinces have regional public radio?

 

[w9wi]

Besides CKUA in Alberta, does other provinces have regional public radio?

No.

Interestingly, in the I-C database, eight FM frequencies in Ontario are listed as "OECA" -- OECA being the licencee of the TVO regional public *TV* service. Numbers postpended suggest there were at one time 13 such reservations.

That said, really most people would consider the CBC to be "public radio", and they run regional services in all ten provinces.

 

[azumanga]

Interestingly, in the I-C database, eight FM frequencies in Ontario are listed as "OECA" -- OECA being the licencee of the TVO regional public *TV* service. Numbers postpended suggest there were at one time 13 such reservations.

Are any of those known to be in operation? If so, what programming do they carry? As TVO currently does not have a radio counterpart of its own, I would think they're either community radio stations leased to groups by TVO, or they're repeaters of other stations.

That said, really most people would consider the CBC to be "public radio", and they run regional services in all ten provinces.

Don't forget the territories, where CBC North operates several local radio stations plus a regionwide network for the Arctic region.

 

[mjlarochelle]

Interestingly, in the I-C database, eight FM frequencies in Ontario are listed as "OECA" -- OECA being the licencee of the TVO regional public *TV* service. Numbers postpended suggest there were at one time 13 such reservations.

Are any of those known to be in operation? If so, what programming do they carry? As TVO currently does not have a radio counterpart of its own, I would think they're either community radio stations leased to groups by TVO, or they're repeaters of other stations.

These "OECA" frequencies are all allocations that are not in use.

Province-wide public radio stations are not common in Canada, likely because of the CBC and the fact that it owns virtually all of its radio stations. Even Quebec, which one would expect to have a public independent French provincial network similar to CKUA, doesn't have one. Obviously these exist as affiliates of NPR in some U.S. states, and statewide public radio networks are common in Mexico where there is no national equivalent of NPR or CBC.