CANADIAN RADIO NEWS –Jon Pearkins
jon@pearkins.com
As they promised, the CRTC just announced license renewal decisions for a fairly large number of stations, most of them FM, but has delayed their decisions on the many cited for non-compliance with Radio Regulations. All stations listed below have had their licenses renewed until August 31 2030.
530 ON Brampton CHLO License renewal notes the requirement to serve at least 12 cultural groups in 13 languages during each broadcast week. There was also a reminder of the Revised Commercial Radio Policy’s expectation of 5% of the music aired to be from Canadian emerging artists. A new annual report is also required that details the amount of Indigenous content aired, including percentage of Indigenous music and number of Indigenous musical artists.
1050 SK North Battleford CJNB License renewal.
1280 ON Toronto CJRU The only Canadian campus radio station on AM is at Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly known as Ryerson University, which was famous for its broadcasting degree. CJRU is student-run and owned by Radio Ryerson Inc. License renewal continues the current 99 watts non-directional.
1350 ON Brampton CIRF License renewal notes the requirement to serve at least 14 distinct ethnic groups in 11 languages during each broadcast week. $30,000 per year in Canadian content development (CCD) was also detailed in the Renewal decision. The station transmits a non-directional 1000 watts day and only 40 watts at night.
1430 ON Toronto CHKT License renewal notes the requirement to serve at least 14 cultural groups in 15 languages during each broadcast week.
1470 ON {sic} Vancouver CJVB License renewal notes the requirement to serve at least 23 cultural groups in 23 languages during each broadcast week.
The Facebook page Canadian Radio News by Dan Sys provides much of the information for this column
(IRCA DX Monitor March 20 [sic], published March 20)
WOR iog (2023-03-20)