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Rogers Selling Tillsonburg & Smith Falls Stations To My Broadcasting
Amidst a flurry of station sales announced by the CRTC on Friday are these three: Rogers selling its CKOT and CJDL, both FMs, as well as CJET-FM in Smith Falls to Jon Pole's My Broadcasting. The price for the trio: $675,000.
According to the proposal, all three would continue to operate under the same formats. CKOT is adult contemporary, CJDL is country and CJET currently has a "Jack" format.
Pending interventions, a hearing will be held on March 25th near Ottawa to confirm the deal.
Among the other potential Ontario sales listed in the CRTC release:
-Torres Media to buy CJWL-FM Ottawa, a soft contemporary format, from Ottawa Media Inc. for $1.2 million.
-A numbered company to take over Port Hawkesbury's country formatted CKHK from the same Ottawa Media for just $150,000.
--The same numbered company (owned by a non profit) wants to acquire CHRC-FM aka "Hot Country 92.5" in Rockland, Ont. from Dufferin Communications (i.e. The Evanovs.) The price: just $150,000.
You can see all the deals and stations involved here.
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So I am pretty sure they were all announced between October and December last year. Just wondering why it has taken so long for the CRTC to announce all of this, especially with the fact that Torres is already programming 98.5 Ottawa.
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Must be that six weeks they took off around Christmas.
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Plus 5 weeks to translate the applications
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Hope they get the stations out of Rogers hands soon.
John, I know your on this forum, If rogers gives up CJCL or CHFI could you by it?
Why did rogers even by CKOT, they were doing a great job on a great undersurved format.
Even young people like me like the soft AC/easy listening format.
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And, I was looking at the other sails.
This is not ontario related, but what do you think Akash will do with the 2 english mainstream AM stations in Calgary and Winnipeg?
I hope they don't break the rules like neeti does.
I listen to their stations, and they are programed better than the CINA stations.
They should have bot CKOC and CHAM.
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RadioActive wrote:
Must be that six weeks they took off around Christmas.
Puts one in mind of the Emerald City.
🎶 We get up at twelve 🎵
🎵 And go to work at one 🎶
🎶 Take an hour for lunch 🎵
🎵 And then at two we're done 🎶
🎶 Jolly good fun! 🎵
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Hope they get the stations out of Rogers hands soon.
John, I know your on this forum, If rogers gives up CJCL or CHFI could you by it?
Why did rogers even by CKOT, they were doing a great job on a great undersurved format.
Even young people like me like the soft AC/easy listening format.
I would love to own CHFI. (We don't own any AM stations - but I love sports radio - but would say no to CJCL). I'm not sure I would have enough in the piggy bank if CHFI was available. It is an amazing station with an incredible history.
If I'm being honest, our strength is in medium and small markets. We know that business very well and enjoy working in those size of communities. I don't see a day where we run stations in major markets. That said - it would be fun!
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I would love to own CHFI. (We don't own any AM stations - but I love sports radio - but would say no to CJCL). I'm not sure I would have enough in the piggy bank if CHFI was available. It is an amazing station with an incredible history.
If I'm being honest, our strength is in medium and small markets. We know that business very well and enjoy working in those size of communities. I don't see a day where we run stations in major markets. That said - it would be fun!
A big urban region is a completely different ball game than a more focused community like Kingston, and it'd be evident in every area of your operation (as I'm sure you know, Jon). From show hosting styles and personalities, to the types of partnerships you'd form and how these would work. In Kingston you have one hospital and one university. In Toronto you've got multiple. The dynamics of big cities and smaller places differ considerably, and people used to one often don't fully understand or appreciate the other. Your entry experience-gaining ticket to properly serving the GTA might be a rim-shot such as Hamilton or Oshawa. One day you might want and be ready for the challenge, and if you are truly interested I wish you every success.
Tillsonburg and environs should be interesting for you. I used to work at weeklies in Paris and Norwich, and we laid out the paper in Tillsonburg (Otter Publishing). So it's a bit of an old stomping ground (mid-80s).
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Now that akash will be taking over, what do you guys think they will do with the stations in Calgary and Winnipeg?
I've read the application, and it said nothing about getting a new ethnic licence.
What format do you think they will put on the stations?
I have 3 guesses.
1, an all talk format with some ethnic programming, 2, A full survice format with soft ac or oldies/classic hits and country during the day with talkshows, then evenings and weakends will be ethnic with maybe a classic country show and a polka show.
3, They might break the rules and make them all ethnic like neeti did.
Just because your talk is in english, does not mean your a non-ethnic station if your playing music in another language intirly.
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Now that akash will be taking over, what do you guys think they will do with the stations in Calgary and Winnipeg?
I've read the application, and it said nothing about getting a new ethnic licence.
What format do you think they will put on the stations?
I have 3 guesses.
1, an all talk format with some ethnic programming, 2, A full survice format with soft ac or oldies/classic hits and country during the day with talkshows, then evenings and weakends will be ethnic with maybe a classic country show and a polka show.
3, They might break the rules and make them all ethnic like neeti did.
Just because your talk is in english, does not mean your a non-ethnic station if your playing music in another language intirly.
Because it's two different markets, and not two stations side by side (like Hamilton) it's easy to suggest (with more then enough room to be wrong, and no assuming intended) that maybe both stations in Winnipeg and Calgary will say goodbye to Funny radio and hello to Bollywood radio.