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Decision CRTC 2000-398 |
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Ottawa, 2 October 2000 |
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Golden West Broadcasting Ltd. Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan – 199917408 |
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Application processed by Public Notice CRTC 2000-95 dated 7 juillet 2000 |
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Proposed transmitter relocation and change in frequency for the new FM station at Moose Jaw |
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The Commission licensed the station to serve the Moose Jaw radio market, in Decision CRTC 99-473. In the Commission's view, approval of the proposed amendments would have resulted in a fundamental change in the station's market. The Commission therefore denies Golden West's application. |
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Golden West requested authority to place the station's transmitter on Global Communications Limited's television tower at Disley, Saskatchewan. This would have saved it more than $100,000 in construction costs. The tower is located approximately 35 kilometres north-east of the station’s currently authorized transmitter site in downtown Moose Jaw. |
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The licensee also asked the Commission to change the station's frequency from 93.7 MHz, channel 229C1, to 100.7 MHz, channel 264C. |
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The Golden West proposal would not have extended coverage to communities within the Moose Jaw radio market such as Gravelbourg and Assiniboia. Rather, the proposed technical parameters would have made a higher quality signal available to the cities of Regina and Lumsden, within the Regina radio market. The station's 3 mV/m contour would have completely covered these communities, thereby expanding its principal marketing area. |
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In its evaluation of this application, the Commission has taken into consideration the opposing intervention submitted by HDL Investments Inc., licensee of CKRM and CHMX-FM Regina. The intervener argued that Golden West's proposal is essentially an application for a Regina radio station. The Commission considers that Golden West did not satisfactorily respond to the intervener's concerns. |
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Related CRTC document Decision CRTC 99-473 – New FM radio programming undertaking at Moose Jaw |
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Secretary General |
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