Servicing the debt was optional?

They did exactly what they should have: focused on core assets (which appear to be Global News, Stack, and a few radio stations) that are positive contributors, while stripping everything else down  to just "operational" to prepare them for sale to existing broadcasters who can efficiently integrate them into existing clusters and re-build them to some degree.

RadioAaron wrote:

Servicing the debt was optional?

They did exactly what they should have: focused on core assets (which appear to be Global News, Stack, and a few radio stations) that are positive contributors, while stripping everything else down  to just "operational" to prepare them for sale to existing broadcasters who can efficiently integrate them into existing clusters and re-build them to some degree.

Calling it “exactly what they should have done” gives management a lot of credit for managing a crisis it helped create. It’s unfortunate all around. So many things going against them and all traditional broadcasters without sports properties.

paterson1 wrote:

darcyh wrote:

I wonder if we will see the AM's like CJOY and CFPL and even 640 impacted?

Oddly enough I had CJOY on in the car at around 10:40 this morning, and it sounded like they had a live announcer on the mid morning shift.

Ah Corus was foolin', At that time, it's Middays with Dan Allaire10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
who voicetracks for Kingston and Cornwall. It appears he is based in Cornwall. Odd they would keep him in the midday timeslot, but have no hosts (live or tracked) on morning or drive. As someone once said on this forum regarding CJOY somebody forgot to turn it off.

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Radiowiz wrote:

km93 wrote:

paterson1 wrote:

Oddly enough I had CJOY on in the car at around 10:40 this morning, and it sounded like they had a live announcer on the mid morning shift.

Ah Corus was foolin', At that time, it's Middays with Dan Allaire10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
who voicetracks for Kingston and Cornwall. It appears he is based in Cornwall. Odd they would keep him in the midday timeslot, but have no hosts (live or tracked) on morning or drive. As someone once said on this forum regarding CJOY somebody forgot to turn it off.

I don't know about the cost of running CJOY, but it is running ads in a manner that suggests that the station is making money. 

There's no way of knowing that based on hearing the commercials. We don't know the rates. We also don't know how many are simply bonuses for buying Magic. (probably lots)

Whether is makes or loses money, it's probably by a tiny margin.

If it's a loss, they'll have determined that it at least has some sale value to someone sometime soon.

Bell won that gamble in Hamilton, Windsor, and probably St Catherines. So you never know.

 

Media Nerd wrote:

Do they still have the building in Guelph ?

Yes, and the Kitchener stations have moved in.

More people let go on the finance side. 
Ominous post I realize but seems Corus is taking the small cuts frequently approach.

darcyh wrote:

RadioAaron wrote:

Media Nerd wrote:

Do they still have the building in Guelph ?

Yes, and the Kitchener stations have moved in.

Is there no requirement for a station to have a studio in its community of license? If not there should be.

 
Probably not. The US also got rid of that rule in the last few years.

Given that most stations aren't much more than a computer running in a closet the location of the closet is not important. Top of the hour ID: broadcasting from Guelph Ontario this is XXXX - FM Kitchener. Has a nice ring to it.

It's not a big deal, but Sauga 960, the station that serves Mississauga and Brampton, is located on Westmore Dr. in Etobicoke, not in the "Sauga" of their branding. The station's phone number starts with a 416 area code - not the 905 they'd have if they really were in the city they're licensed to serve.