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Fresh Listen: Canada’s Border Blasters
When Martz Communications shut down its two Detroit HD multicast/FM translators last week, it was the end of an brief, unusual episode in the history of programming warfare. The Martz-operated WGPR-HD-3 had launched as a hard-rockin’ Alternative called “The Bone,” with frequent early salvos at incumbent CIMX (89X), including reminders that 89…
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Smooth Jazz CJGV "Groove 99.1" Winnipeg can officially go AC
After several months of consideration by the CRTC, Corus’ request to change Winnipege's Smooth Jazz CJGV “Groove FM 99.1” has been approved. The new format will be a “Mix Adult contemporary format, which will feature a wide variety of today’s pop and rock hits, mixed with songs from the 80s and 90s,” according to the application by Corus.… Read More
Radio in Canada
In Winnipeg, Evanov Communications-owned CFJL-FM (100.7) has flipped to Christmas music as "Winnipeg's Christmas Music Station." However, more may be in store, as it is rumored to be changing after the holidays from rock music to "The Lounge." Listen to CFJL-FM ... Toronto's CKFJ-FM (98.7) launches the city's first Urban AC as "The Way We Groove," …
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Two Quebec stations are flagged for "inappropriate use of montages"
The CRTC regulator lays down a new 10% maximum for montages of multiple songs, while making an example of Cogeco CHR CKOI, Montreal (96.9) and Astral's CHR CKTF, Gatineau, Quebec. The agency says both were running far too many collages of "popular English-language and non-Canadian music", circumventing the rules about Canadian content and their "co… Read More
Canada's CRTC approves two new AM stations in Montreal
Both Tietolman's new 940 and Evanov's new 990 will be Francophone operations. The format at 940 will be "mainly spoken word, focused on news and public affairs, intended for an audience aged 35 and over." Evanov's new 990 AM will "offer a French-language spoken word and musical station for Montreal's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual community… Read More
Vancouver's "Shore 104" is accused of "trafficking" – being sold too soon
From today's TRI Newsletter: “Trafficking” – flipping stations before the law says you can – isn’t something the United States' FCC worries about, with its much more free-market bent. But in Canada, the CRTC regulator is serious about its two-year time limit for recently-launched stations, and that results in a rebuke to CHHR/Shore 104 owner Shore … Read More
A Vancouver swap helps a struggling non-profit and gives "Peak" performance
Canada’s CRTC regulator has approved a frequency swap that will put Pattison’s “Peak” CKPK on a better frequency, and also rescues not-for-profit “Co-op Radio.” The agency says non-commercial Co-op Radio told it that “the frequency exchange is the only foreseeable way in which it can continue to broadcast…its transmission equipment is failing and i… Read More
Sports is out and all-traffic in on Montreal's CKAC-AM
Montreal's only French-language all-sports radio station will vanish as of 4:30am Tuesday, just in time for the morning rush hour. That is when Cogeco's CKAC-AM "Sports" (730) becomes "Radio Circulation," Montreal's only all-traffic and weather radio station in either language.
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Canada officials backpedal on Dire Straits "Money For Nothing"
The Canadian Standards Broadcast Council says the ban on playing the Dire Straits song "Money For Nothing" can be lifted, and the decision left to individual stations to determine if and how it will be played. At issue is the word "faggot," which appears more than once in the classic song.
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The Sirius Canada & XM Canada merger should be done next week
The anticipated merger between Canada's two satellite radio operators is expected to close on June 21. XM Canada's parent company, Canadian Radio Satellite Holdings along with Sirius Canada have picked up their last regulatory and government agreement, clearing the way for the merger to be finalized.
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Toronto's all-news CFTR-AM is the foundation for a cable TV news channel
Rogers Media announces they will create a new 24/7 news channel for cable, with the news content coming from their combined resources of TV, publishing and their all-news radio station, "680 News" CFTR-AM. The service, to be called the CityNews Channel, will cover the greater Toronto area and has been approved by the CRTC.
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Radio in Canada
Radio-Info hears from Toronto's adult standards "Zoomer Radio" CFZM-AM (740), where Director of Operations & Programming Gene Stevens is leaving after a 10-year run effective at the end of May. A new PD is expected to be named next month.
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With an appeal denied, Toronto's CKLN (88.1) goes off the air
CKLN-FM (88.1), located on the campus of Ryerson University in Toronto, had their signal turned off Friday evening after losing an appeal in an Ontario court. The station had been cited numerous times by the CRTC for broadcast violations and license issues, and faced closure before appealing that decision in court.
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Canada's governing body signs off on the Sirius and XM Radio merger
The CRTC has given its approval for the merger of Canada's two satellite radio operators, paving the way for Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings, the parent company of XM Radio, and Sirius Radio to merge. The CRTC agreement includes a number of provisions, including a rate freeze to the undiscounted monthly service rate for subscription packages for …
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Astral's attempt to block Cogeco's radio deal is denied
A Federal Appeals court in Canada has ruled against Astral Media's bid to block the already-closed Corus Radio sale in Quebec. The sale allowed Corus Radio to sell 11 stations to Cogeco.
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Shareholders approve merger of Canada's XM and Sirius
Shareholders have voted for approval for Canadian Radio Satellite Holdings, the parent company of XM Canada, to merge with Sirius Canada. The combination will create what CSRH Chairman John Bitove calls, "a leading Canadian media company." It brings together the two players in Canadian satellite radio,combining XM's 600,000 subscribers with the 1.2…
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Radio in Canada
More changes to Toronto's urban CFXJ-FM "Flow" (93.5) with former "Flow" DJ JJ reunited with his former co-host Melanie for mornings. You can listen to "Flow 93.5" here ...
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The $80 million sale of 11 Corus stations to Cogeco closes; Lachance named SVP
Rival Astral Media tried to block the sale of 11 Corus Radio stations in Quebec to Cogeco in a Canadian court. The Canadian Radio Television & Telecommunications Commission approved the $80 million sale, despite the sale giving Cogeco three French-language FM stations in Montreal, one over the market limit, according to the Canadian Press.
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Authorities yank the license of Canada's college station CKLN-FM
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has taken the unusual step of revoking the broadcast license of Toronto's CKLN-FM (88.1), located on the campus of Ryerson University. The move comes following a nearly two-year investigation into the station's operations, which included infighting among paid and non-paid staff, a seve…
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Canada to review the controversial ruling on Dire Straits "faggot" lyric
The original decision on "Money for Nothing" was from the industry's own Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, and today the government's CRTC regulator asks the Council to take a second look at its January 12 ruling - the one that raised an outcry from members of Dire Straits and members of the gay community. The CRTC says "the decision has elicit… Read More
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