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    January 22, 2024 7:37 am  #1

    RadioActive
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    When Did Meta "Relax" The Rules On Canadian Radio Stations?

    This article states that two of the Windsor area's "most popular" radio stations (their words) are back on Facebook and Meta. It states that Blackburn-owned CHYR-FM (aka Mix 96.7) and CJWF-FM (Country 95.9 and 92.7) have returned to the platform, despite the company's ban on Canadian news sources because of Bill C-18.

    But that's not the "news" that drew my attention. It's this one:

    "Meta recently agreed to relax its restrictions on radio station programming, allowing some, but not all, Canadian stations to return to Facebook and Instagram."

    When did this happen? And what, exactly, allows one station to return but not others? Has anyone heard about this or is this just a station getting PR from one of its owned sources that doesn't have anything to do with news? You'd think any relaxation by Zuckerberg and Co. in this area would make news. Not that you could read about it on Facebook...

    Windsor's Country and Mix 96.7 return to Facebook and Instagram
     

     

    January 22, 2024 9:27 am  #2

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    Re: When Did Meta "Relax" The Rules On Canadian Radio Stations?

    Bell's radio stations seem to have remained on FB & IG all along, while most others were/are geoblocked here. One station in eastern Ontario that recently returned to those platforms is Pembroke's 104.9 myFM, and these "returning stations" may have done so on the condition that they don't post any news links or anything newsy.

     

    January 22, 2024 11:59 am  #3

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    Re: When Did Meta "Relax" The Rules On Canadian Radio Stations?

    Bell was definitively blocked for me, and their news-oriented properties still are, but it seems not everyone's experience is the same.

    I think they cast a wide net to be safe, then took time to analyze and pull back where they could.

     

    January 22, 2024 1:18 pm  #4

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    Re: When Did Meta "Relax" The Rules On Canadian Radio Stations?

    I follow a number of Canadian radio stations on Facebook and some of them never disappeared for me, or if they did they came back some time ago. Notably, FM96 London.

     

     

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