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WLIE 540 Wants to go to 10,000 Watts

AM is an endangered species north of the border. There are none left in Prince Edward Island. Almost every week, Scott Fybush's NERW mentions another Canadian AM abandoning the band.

In fact, the CBC is actively converting. Its clears in Montreal (940) and Toronto (740) moved to FM and CBC sold the frequencies. It's 50K in Moncton, New Brunswick (1070) just went dark. I believe the only big AM the CBC has left is 690 in Vancouver (and their pattern probably hits Honolulu at night).

That said, an application could probably be presented to the CRTC for an improvement on the US side since there seems to be little interest on for AM in the True North.
 
50kguy said:
In fact, the CBC is actively converting. Its clears in Montreal (940) and Toronto (740) moved to FM and CBC sold the frequencies. It's 50K in Moncton, New Brunswick (1070) just went dark. I believe the only big AM the CBC has left is 690 in Vancouver (and their pattern probably hits Honolulu at night).
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You are forgetting the immense signals on 540 and 990 Regina & Winnipeg markets.

Mexico will be a similar case, once the now in progress move to FM of 90% or more of AM stations is completed.
 
50kguy said:
That said, an application could probably be presented to the CRTC for an improvement on the US side since there seems to be little interest on for AM in the True North.
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The CRTC has nothing to do with it. Unlike our FCC, which regulates both programming/ownership and technical matters, Canada divides those functions between two agencies. The CRTC handles programming/ownership, while Industry Canada handles the technical matters.

That said, this issue is bigger than even Industry Canada. Those defunct AM signals are protected by international treaty, so it's actually our State Department and their Foreign Ministry that would have to get involved, and my sense is that they both have bigger fish to fry at the moment.
 
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