Re: [IRCA] License of CHSC-1220 St Catharines ON NOT renewed by CRTC, will go silent

[David Faulkner <drdsfaulkner@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All:

If you've ever been on or near the Niagara peninsula, you will know that it has no shortage off strong AM and FM signals.  All the Toronto stations roar into St. Catherines, as do most of the Buffalo, all three Niagara Falls outlets and all three from Hamilton.  Then, of course, there's the 610 St. Catherines.

I only heard CHSC once, that in Port Huron about 40 years ago when WGAR was off.  At that timee CHSC was running 1 kw-D, 250 w-N, and also had different day and night patterns.  Otherwise they couldn't touch WGAR, even at sunset.

Further, I would hardly call places like St. Catherines, Peterburough, and Kingston, all of which have seen reduced .AM service "rural."  As someone noted, FM's are cheaper to operate.  They are also subject to less restriction under the Canadian content regulations and because the Canadian population is spread over a wide area, FM frequencies (except in the cities) tend to be more available than in most places in the U.S.

73
David

--- On Sat, 7/31/10, Mike Hawkins <michael.d.hawkins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Mike Hawkins <michael.d.hawkins@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] License of CHSC-1220 St Catharines ON NOT renewed by CRTC, will go silent
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, July 31, 2010, 3:59 AM

I have only heard them once, and that was 40 years ago.  This one station
aside, Canada seems to be shutting out radio to their rural users bit by
bit.

Mike

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mike Hawkins wrote:
>
>> With what seems to be the Canadian government's goal of keeping anyone
>> thats
>> not in a metropolitan area from hearing radio stations, I wonder how long
>> it
>> will be before they ban AC power and force everyone to use batteries.
>>  There
>> is no way that all populated areas of the country can be served by FM
>> only,
>> and I really wonder why they are shutting down AM broadcasting piece by
>> piece.
>>
>
> This move has nothing to do with the national AM-to-FM shift in Canada.
> CHSC had been a thorn in the CRTC's side for years now, violating just about
> every rule there was to violate: it moved its studio from St. Catharines to
> the Toronto suburbs without permission, it replaced English-language
> programming with Italian shows in violation of the terms of its license, and
> it failed to comply with most of the other requirements Canadian
> broadcasters have to meet, including maintaining logger tapes.
>
> It's amazing it was allowed to go this long without getting its license
> pulled, really. Canada takes its broadcasting rules seriously, and there's
> little leeway for flagrant offenders like CHSC.
>
> s
>
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