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Decision
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Ottawa, 11 December 1987
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Decision CRTC 87-921
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Victoria Communications Ltd.
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Victoria, British Columbia - 871931200
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Pursuant to Public Notice CRTC 1987-226 dated 15 October 1987, the Commission considered an application to amend the broadcasting licence for CKKQ-FM Victoria by decreasing the average effective radiated power from 84,000 watts to 38,000 watts; by changing the frequency from 100.3 MHz to 92.1 MHz; and by relocating the transmitter from Saltspring Island to a new site near Mt. Work, approximately 12 kilometers to the north-west of central Victoria.
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Following the publication of notice of this application in the Victoria Times-Columnist on 27 October 1987 and in response to an intervention by the Director of the Capital Regional District, the Commission agreed to extend the intervention deadline from 19 November 1987 to 30 November 1987 to ensure that all persons interested in this application would have sufficient opportunity to make their views known.
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Subsequent to the filing of opposing interventions by the CBC and the West Coast Media Society, Victoria Communications Ltd. withdrew that portion of its application relating to a change in frequency in order that the CBC could continue its plans to apply for an English-language FM radio broadcasting undertaking at Victoria, using channel 221C (92.1 MHz). Both of these interventions were later withdrawn.
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In its assessment of this application the Commission has taken into consideration the four other interventions received including two petitions with a total of sixty-one signatures and a letter from Mr. Jim Manley, the Member of Parliament for Cowichan-Malahat-The Islands. The Commission has also considered the licensee's replies to the interventions which indicate that prior to constructing the transmitter tower, it had received the proper permits from local authorities and had already received permission from the federal Department of Communications (DOC) to change the tower site.
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The licensee also stated that the application to change the tower site was made "after exhaustive engineering studies demonstrated that service to our primary audience would be significantly improved by relocation of the transmitter to the shoulder of Mount Work."
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The Commission has also taken note of a letter from the DOC dated 3 December 1987 which indicates that with the withdrawal of that portion of the application relating to a change in frequency, it will issue an amendment to the licensee's Technical Construction and Operating Certificate as it relates to the change in the transmitter site. The letter also indicates, however, that the average effective radiated power of the station cannot be less than 44,000 watts.
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Accordingly, having reviewed all the evidence before it, the Commission approves the proposal by Victoria Communications Ltd. to relocate the transmitter site from Saltspring Island to a new site near Mt. Work, approximately 12 kilometers to the northwest of central Victoria. It also approves a decrease in the average effective radiated power from 84,000 watts to 44,000 watts.
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By virtue of these approvals the licensee may now commence broadcasting from its new transmitter site on the frequency 100.3 MHz at an average effective radiated power of 44,000 watts.
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Fernand Bélisle
Secretary General
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