Vancouver Sports Radio station bolsters its on-air line-up
Vancouver Sport Radio Station Team 1040 AM has announced two new additions to its on-air line-up in coming weeks, TSN’s Ray Ferraro and the Globe and Mail’s Matt Sekeres.
CRTC rules the Edge’s Morning show is of “high standard”
In a broadcasting decision handed down today, the CRTC has ruled that CFNY-FM’s (known to listeners in the Greater Toronto Area as 102.1 the Edge) broadcast of The Dean Blundell Show on March 20th, 2009 did not fail to meet the objective of the Broadcasting Act that programming be of a high standard.
The ruling came after the commission received a complaint from a Burlington resident who called the show “thoroughly disgusting” and recommended the show “be terminated with the greatest enforcement.”
Winnipeg’s Hank FM becomes K-Rock
Yesterday at 6 a.m., Winnipeg’s country music station Hank FM, at 100.7 on the dial, became K-Rock 100.7.
Playlist on the new station includes classic rock (Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Neil Young, and Van Halen); Blues (John Lee Hooker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Eric Clapton); and stuff in between (Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Steve Earle).
HMV online music store now out of beta
Canada’s largest traditional retailer of music, HMV Canada has announced that its online music store, hmvdigital, is now officially launched after seven months in beta.
The company says it is now offering over five million songs in the MP3 format, the majority encoded at 320 kbps, and free of any copyright protection.
Chum buys Flow 93.5 in Toronto
Chum Radio announced today an agreement with Milestone Radio to purchase Toronto radio station The New Flow 93.5 FM (CFJX-FM). The sale is subject to CRTC approval.
This is the third radio station transaction involving Chum Radio. Earlier this week, Chum sold London radio station BOB-FM (CHST-FM) and Bounce (CHBN-FM) in Edmonton to Rogers Broadcasting.
Rogers buys radio stations in London and Edmonton
Rogers Broadcasting has announced the purchase of radio stations in London Ontario and Edmonton Alberta from Chum Radio.
On Monday, Rogers said it would purchase London radio station BOB-FM (CHST-FM). On Tuesday, the company announced it was buying Bounce (CHBN-FM) in Edmonton.
Toronto’s Proud FM powers up
In a broadcast decision handed down yesterday, the CRTC has approved the application by Dufferin Communications Inc. to increase the average effective radiated power (ERP) of CIRR-FM in Toronto from 50 to 128 watts and a maximum ERP from 50 to 250 watts.
DAWG FM now testing in Ottawa
CIDG-FM, a new Canadian station which is calling itself DAWG FM, is now testing on air in Ottawa at 101.9 FM. DAWG is expected to officially launch later this spring or early this summer.
