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Rogers Shuts Down Six Stations

Briancook451 said:
It just means one of Canada's top 5 markets has zero sports stations, and zero news stations.
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Goldilocks94941 said:
But to leave all of metro Vancouver with just two English-language AM stations, one commercial and one non-commercial, is ridiculous.
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Where are all the broadcasters? Is there no one in either place who could have either made an offer to Rogers or could now make an offer to the CRTC?

I gather the ownership limits probably prevent Stingray from getting involved?
 
TheBigA said:
Where are all the broadcasters? Is there no one in either place who could have either made an offer to Rogers or could now make an offer to the CRTC?

I gather the ownership limits probably prevent Stingray from getting involved?
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Ownership limits have been recently adjusted, actually. It's still 4 stations in a market, but now it can be 3 FM and one AM
What it still can not be is 4 FM in a market.
(previously it was two AM and two FM)
I'm not saying this will happen, but Rogers just freed themselves up to declare that they no longer own two AM in various markets, so they can now buy a third FM...
 
Yeziknoradio said:
Rogers just freed themselves up to declare that they no longer own two AM in various markets, so they can now buy a third FM...
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Their announcement made it sound like radio is not in their future

These changes are part of our plan to focus our investment in areas that will drive growth long-term.
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I'm asking if there's anyone else?? Would someone in those cities flip to sports?
 
TheBigA said:
Where are all the broadcasters? Is there no one in either place who could have either made an offer to Rogers or could now make an offer to the CRTC?

I gather the ownership limits probably prevent Stingray from getting involved?
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It's not just the ownership limits. The CRTC takes a long time to approve sales and there are no LMAs. So Rogers would still be operating these stations for 12-18 more months.

By surrendering the licenses, the can sell the tower land and get that money a lot faster.
 
Would any outfit that enters into the CRTC proposal phase be forced to apply to operate in the two formats : news, sports? I know in Canada the broadcast concessions are content-specific.
 


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