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- Iain Grant
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CBC 1 SCA
Why when you can get umpteen clear channels on a digital hd carrier would CBC be easing into 1972 by adding a Tamil SCA channel. Surely they will be digital within the year
Who's buying the receivers ?
IMHO someone is getting bad advice. Maybe the same brain trust who lied to the CRTC about 740 being a bad signal.
Check out what CJSA is doing. This is the way it should be.
Last edited by ig (September 15, 2017 9:13 pm)
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
- RadioActive
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Re: CBC 1 SCA
And the word on the CBC's SCMO is: "no."
The CRTC has decided that the CBC won't be able to add this service, primarily because it would affect an existing newcomer, namely CJRK-FM in Scarborough. (Not sure having the word "Jerk" as your call letters is the best idea, but it still beats CKNT!)
"The Commission acknowledges that CJRK-FM only began operations in September 2016 and has not yet had a chance to establish itself in the market" it notes in the decision. The fact this station doesn't report its earnings (or lack of them) until the end of November also played a role. CJSA-FM, another Toronto ethnic outlet, also submitted an intervention to the plan.
Another factor in the outcome: Brampton. The Commission recently did a study on whether that city could absorb another radio station (after having just licenced one for 1350, not yet on the air) and concluded it couldn't - and that because CBL-FM's signal reaches that market, it would be defying its own conclusion.
I found it interesting that the CBC lost this one, which is unusual in itself. And in its comments, even the CRTC noted that this time, it wasn't business as usual.
"...as an exception to its normal policy, the Commission denies the application by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for authority to use the SCMO channel of CBL-FM Toronto to broadcast a predominantly Tamil-language radio service."
CRTC decision