The term "bonus" creates a pretty common misunderstanding in these stories.

It's not some random pat-on-the-back-good-job-buddy-wink-wink frivolity. It's a pillar of many employment contracts, and the base salary is not what is usually expected to be the total earnings.

And they don't just apply to the senior executive team; they can apply to morning show hosts, sales managers, marketing, etc.

So if a subscriber goal for StackTV is baked into a marketing director's contract, and they meet that goal, you have to pay that bonus...legally. Same for a morning show host exceeding ratings goals in Vancouver, or a PD at Q107.

Storm wrote:

I have just read in another post that Dave Blezard is becoming the permanent co-host with Kat Callaghan on the morning show. Scott Fox has been off for some time apparently due to something that happened to one of his feet and Dave has been filling in the past couple of weeks. This is in addition to his position as PD for The Beat; 107.5 Dave Rocks, both in Kitchener;  Energy 95.3 and Y108, both in Hamilton; Magic 106 and possibly CJOY, both in Guelph and Music Director of 91.5 The Beat. That should keep him busy.  

The Ottawa PD is now serving as PD for all Ontario stations outside of Toronto.

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 wrote:

Hello.
Please have more incentives for Canadian broadcasters to use HD radio and for the ones that do, please have incentives for them to have programing other than their AM stations on their subchannels.

There's not much more the CRTC can do....they already have given broadcaster carte-blanche to program whatever they want on them. There's simply no business case for additional HD programming.

RadioActive wrote:

I understand the rules and I know this has come up before. I also get why Neeti Ray would want the calls on both of his similarly formatted stations. But it just seems to me this cheapens the calls, which I'm aware most radio owners now treat as an afterthought. 

Does this mean I could start a talk station in say, Edmonton, and call it CFRB-FM? I doubt it would happen. But if what you're saying is true, it's conceivable that it could. 

I believe if the stations aren't co-owned, you'd have to have permission from the first station.

Not sure home internet is really a product that has a Christmas spike

RadioQuiz wrote:

Does anyone know why this purchase would be approved before others? This one was on a later hearing. How does it get bumped up?

My guess would be because its the simplest.
 

paterson1 wrote:

"Are ethnic stations exempted from Canadian content regulations?"  I believe ethnic stations usually play at least 7% cancon since there often isn't that much available that would qualify as cancon in the language they are programming.  Although I do wonder about CHAM and their unique programming which features segments of Punjabi music.  There are a number of Indo-Canadian artists and groups that are popular and sell a lot of recordings worldwide. So CHAM may be playing more than 7%.  My understanding is if an ethnic station has any blocks for English music they would be bound to play 35% cancon. 

Here are the regs for cancon including ethnic stations...https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/cancon/r_cdn.htm

CHAM isn't licensed as an ethnic station, so they have to play 35% Cancon.
 

tdotwriter wrote:

Bell Media filed with the Commission for a mass sell-off of their smaller market radio stations in February of this year. This whole thing is going at a snail's pace with the application to sell their Niagara cluster (CHTZ-FM, CHRE-FM and CKTB AM) still pending. Furthermore, apparently their CEO recently hinted at another mass sell-off of even more assets. This was before the disputed TSN sell-off rumor.

They definitely haven't made it a secret that they're done with media and sports.

The sports spinoffs were a lot easier with an obvious buyer and fewer regulatory challenges. I'll give it 18 months until they're out of media completely.

Jody Thornton wrote:

RadioAaron wrote:

RadioAaron wrote:

Drex

This isn’t a guess.

Is he on Indie now?

Been a couple weeks, it seems.

Drex

Ale Ont wrote:

I find it interesting that Ottawa is considered a Medium Market.

Looks like they made PPM vs Diary the cut-off.

RadioActive wrote:

This came up in a previous thread here, but since you asked, I might not have believed it a year ago, (because who else would carry the games and do a decent post-game? CHFI? Maybe 680?) but after watching Bell layoff 4,800 people and sell or shutter 45 radio stations in February, and seeing Corus suddenly shut down 97-year-old CHML with no warning (not to mention closing those stations out west), I now believe almost anything is possible. 

Not sure how an "all podcast" format would work on 590, though. 

If this speculation is to be believed, the games could still be on 590 with the podcasts acting as filler / small revenue opportunity.

Easily Amused wrote:

Remember when journalists and broadcasters were wordsmiths? 🤨

Certainly a traffic report is amateur-hour if it doesn't leave listeners scrambling for a dictionary!
 

paterson1 wrote:

BOOM and CHFI always do so well in the ratings and normally have live announcers for their programming even into later evening.  So live and local does matter, even for the big guys. 

Not so sure you are correct about who exactly is sticking their head in the sand...

I was talking about small markets. You clearly have no idea what the financials are looking like. There are markets where every single station is in the red.

MBC and Vista aren't idiots. They're adapting to reality, and that is changing priorities.

Even if smaller markets could afford more local talent, the talent isn't there. Jobs in these markets are sitting vacant. The young broadcasters who are willing to tough it out simply don't exist, and the stations can't afford the veterans.
 

If you wanted to find the fastest way to put the most small market stations out of business as possible this would be it. And, increasingly, they're *not* owned by the big corps; they're owned by MBC, Vista, etc.