There is no such thing; only conditions of license. 

There is no condition requiring any news.

In a small market, news on a music station or two can make sense.

In a large market, requiring KiSS 92.5 to have news would be akin to requiring HGTV to have news.

darcyh wrote:

I remember when a station was seeking or renewing a licence it would include a promise of performance (pop). This would indicate how many hours a day or week they would broadcast live programming, spoken word, news, and local events as well as other items. Has this been done away with? In the lousy London market I do not hear much news or anything local except commercials on any station. CFPL AM does hourly reports but I think they are mostly prerecorded with no temperature checks where the early morning news casts have them. I heard an 90 second obviously canned newscast from CKOT FM (or whatever is is called today) air at noon, again no current weather. I believe stations were once held accountable for the pop. About the only thing the CRTC seems to care about is the the station must attain its Canadian content.

That's still in place although the name is now conditions of license.

So has the promise of performance been eliminated? Or has the bar dropped so low as to be meaningless?

Dale Patterson wrote:

Kind of along these lines, whatever happened to public service programming?

It's odd, but Ontario has TVO.   Why is it odd?   We Ontarians have had all kinds of leadership and administrations, but no one dares touch TVO.        

I hardly watch it, but when I do, I know how vital it is.l   Has any Premier said "We're defunding TVO!"

Nope!


Conservatives have attacked the CBC but they seem to stand back when it's TVO.


 

Last edited by SpinningWheel (December 18, 2025 9:55 pm)

RadioAaron wrote:

I think TVO flies under the radar a bit.

 
I think you’re right about that RadioAaron, the only time I have heard about TVO of late was when they were on strike in 2023, and that’s about it!