Re: [IRCA] U.S. Punjabi stations broadcasting into Canada

[Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jason,

The Mexican stations (XERB, XETRA, etc all broadcast English to a Southern California audience for years. Their studios were in LA and San Diego. I remember seeing both XERB and XEGM back in the 1970 in LA. Has the rules changed? Or maybe Canada is more strict than the U.S.?

Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KGED QSL Manager

> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 07:44:23 -0500
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> Subject: Re: [IRCA] U.S. Punjabi stations broadcasting into Canada
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> On 2014-09-17 01:56, Patrick Martin wrote:
> > I was reading that the Punjabi stations in Vancouver BC has asked the CRTC to shut down the U.S. based Punjabi stations broadcasting from the WA into Canada. I presume they mean 1110 Oak Harbor, 1550 Ferndale and 1600 Blaine WA. How can the CRTC stop a legally licensed U.S. broadcaster from the signal reaching Canada? Now, I figure they may be able to stop the stations from getting Canadian advertising, but I do not know the laws in Canada in that regard. I remember well the Mexican border blasters sending tons of signal into the U.S. No one stopped those stations. Some are still in English and broadcast to the U.S. CJRJ 1200 is calling the U.S. stations pirates, even though they are legally licensed stations on U.S. soil. Can the CRTC do anything? I do not see anything they can do, unless they have some control on the advertising from Vancouver. Any comments?
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> > 73,
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> > Patrick
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> > Patrick Martin
> > Seaside OR
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> The CRTC could have an equivalent of the Brinkley Rule (where the FCC 
> forbade US studios from feeding Mexican transmitters - though waivers 
> are not too hard to get for it - they just wanted to prevent crooks like 
> Dr. John R "Goat Gland" Brinkley from exploiting legal loopholes for his 
> sham treatments (and increasing Nazi sympathies).   I've no clue if this 
> is the case, though.
> 
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