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On The CRTC Docket For Next Week...
Among other things, the Commission will release its decisions on the sale of Bell's Peterborough and Lindsay stations to Durham Radio, and for us in the Ottawa Valley, the relocation of a French-language CBC radio rebroadcaster.
For the latter, the rebroadcaster in question is CBOF-FM-9 88.7 Allumette Island, Quebec, which carries "Ici Radio-Canada Première" programming from Ottawa's CBOF-FM 90.7; the transmitter site is currently near the community of Chapeau, at or near the location of a Télé-Québec DTV signal, and the application calls for moving CBOF-9 to the CBC-owned FM site on the Ontario side, at Rankin, south of Pembroke, which currently originates CBC Radio One rebroadcaster CBCD-FM 92.5 (rebroadcasts CBO-FM 91.5), as well as local Pembroke station CHVR-FM 96.7 (one of Bell's Pure Country stations that has not been sold) and CKQB-FM-1 99.9, a rebroadcaster of Ottawa's Jump 106.9 (CKQB-FM).
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Total purchase price for the trio: just over $2 million.
This passage in the media release caught my eye.
"The Commission finds that approving this transaction is in the public interest, as it will help ensure that the stations continue to serve the communities of Peterborough and Lindsay. CKPT-FM, CKQM-FM and CKLY-FM will be operated by a new commercial licensee to the market who is committed to showcasing a diversity of voices and emerging Canadian musical artists and providing local programming to the community."
Maybe I'm reading between the lines, but that makes it sound like Bell might have been thinking of shutting them down if they couldn't sell them.