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When Country Beat Out A Black Station For A Toronto Radio Licence
From the CBC Archives, but just posted on Friday - the story about the first attempt to get an all Black format on Toronto airwaves that wound up going to a country outlet instead. Needless to say, the community was not happy - and some of the blame was placed on sabotage by, of all places, WBLK in Buffalo.
The video is pretty interesting, especially that standup of reporter Justin Smallbridge (once of City TV) being shot looking upwards from the CBC transmitter.
Hard to believe this was 30 years ago. Also somewhat ironic, given the troubles plaguing G98.7 FM now. I wonder given current sensitivities, whether the CRTC decision would be different today.
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What the article doesn't mention is that while Milestone ultimately did get a license in 2000, a mere 10 years later, in 2010, they sold the station to CHUM Radio so after all those promises made to the Black community, and mobilizing the community's goodwill in order to help him get the license, Jolly sold out for $27 million and Toronto, again, was without a Black owned, community oriented radio station.
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The CBC also worked with Milestone to make 93.5 available in Toronto by lowering the power/redirecting signal at 2 of their out of market repeaters. This allowed 93.5 to become available. Yes.. at not near as good as 99.1's signal, but still a reasonable one.
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Hansa wrote:
What the article doesn't mention is that while Milestone ultimately did get a license in 2000, a mere 10 years later, in 2010, they sold the station to CHUM Radio so after all those promises made to the Black community, and mobilizing the community's goodwill in order to help him get the license, Jolly sold out for $27 million and Toronto, again, was without a Black owned, community oriented radio station.
To be more exact, Flow was not sold to CHUM group. They were sold to Bell media, which already bought Chum FM etc prior to buying Flow 93.5.
Bell media had to sell Flow (to Newcap at the time) when they bought Astral Media, since it is illegal to own more than two AM or two FM in the same market.
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