Re: [IRCA] Application of CKKW-1090 Kitchener ON to move to FMapproved by CRTC

[scott@xxxxxxxxxx]

> Wow...another Canadian AMer going to FM with conserably worse coverage. Is
> no one listening to AM in Canada or to CKKW on AM ?
>
> 73 KAZ wondering why they'd want to do this ??

Here's the logic, as I understand it:

The CRTC is very strict about stations selling ad time in, or overtly
aiming their programming at, areas outside their immediate local market.
That's why there's still a Hamilton radio market - if they were playing by
US rules, all those stations, which have adequate-to-good signals over
nearby Toronto, would be operating from Toronto studios as "Toronto"
stations.

So there's no benefit to CKKW from maintaining the fairly broad coverage
it enjoys on AM. There's a big cost, because it's (if memory serves) a
nine-tower array that's difficult to maintain, on land that would be quite
valuable if it were sold.

And, yeah, almost nobody's listening to AM outside the biggest markets
anymore.

s
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