oldnewsie wrote:While everything you say may be true, the fact remains Kelowna has 8 commercial radio stations, 2 more than Victoria or Saskatoon (both bigger communities). A check of the CRTC financial reports for Kelowna will show the market lost 1.8 million in the 12 months ending Aug 2019. I suspect Covid made that worse. A tough radio market no matter what you think of the current crop of operators.
"Too little, too late", my friend, to cry the blues about too many radio stations in "K town" !
The commercial radio station owners in kelowna have been laying that shit on the public, for far too long, going back to Nick Frost''s application of Silk Fm in 1982.
Nobody is buying it, anymore. Certainly, the CRTC isn't buying it, either.
You (and others) had your chance to "bitch and complain" about the amount of radio licence holders in Kelowna, relative to its size ?
When Paul Larson recently applied for the acquisition of CKOO, news of it broke on this site (and on Easton's site) and NONE of you complained at all !
You people were all for it ! The CRTC also addressed your concerns and they felt that launching an already established radio licence "would have no significant negative impact on this community."
You're the only one who's complaining. Why do you think that is ?
Regarding Mr. Larson's new startup, I congratulate him for it and I think that it has great potential, as long as he and his friends are in it for the long haul.
Put it this way, Larson has about 1000 times more integrity than people like Matthew McBride, so you know he is going to do great things with Lake FM.
The other thing about The Lake is that it SOUNDS splendid. In the digital era, that is extremely important. The bass and treble on that station is top notch, you cannot make it sound better, so whoever he hired as the engineer is kick butt !
The other great sounding station in this town is the new MOVE-FM, which is engineered by Larry King. Each station has a unique sound. Move-Fm has better bass, while Anyhow, I predict that those two great sounding stations will essentially take over the Kelowna ratings at some point
Meanwhile, those who think that eight stations in a market like Kelowna (Canada's fourth fastest growing city) is too much, you need to go outside of your box and see what others do.
I just went on the internet, just now, and picked two cities out of the hat, roughly the same size as Kelowna (150,000 population) In Australia, the city of Cairns and also, in the USA (Springfield, mass).
In the USA and in the United States, federal regulators, there, issue TWICE as many radio licences as they do here in Canada.
Cairns, Australia. a remote community in the middle of effing nowhere, has 17 RADIO STATIONS, while Springfield, MASS has 35 radio stations !
Cairns, as you can see, even has THREE community radio stations. while Kelowna and West Kelowna have NONE !
Therefore, this area is the largest community in Canada... without a community radio licence.
So, those who complain that eight radio stations is "too much" are living in the dark ages !
Region: Far North Qld Station kHz/MHz Location Format/Slogan
National
ABC Far North 801 Cairns ABC local
ABC News Radio 101.1 Cairns ABC news & parliament
Radio National 105.1 Cairns ABC national
ABC Classic FM 105.9 Cairns ABC classical
ABC Far North 106.7 Cairns ABC local
Triple J 107.5 Cairns ABC new music
Commercial
4CA AM 846 846 Cairns Easy music oldies commercial
Triple M 99.5 Cairns Commercial
Star 102.7 102.7 Cairns Commercial
Hit FM 103.5 Cairns Commercial
Community
Cairns FM 89.1 89.1 Cairns Community
Bumma Bippera Media 98.7 Cairns Indigenous community
Coast FM 101.9 Cairns Youth community
Narrowcast
Vision Radio Network 87.6 Cairns Christian narrowcast
Kiss FM 87.8 Cairns Music narrowcast
Kiss FM 88.0 Cairns Music narrowcast
4TAB 104.3 Cairns Racing narrowcast
There are 35 radio stations within close listening range of
Springfield, Massachusetts. (42̊ 06' 45" N, 72̊ 32' 51" W)[Info] Info: Click to get more information about a station or to submit a change.
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[BC] [Info] WFCR 88.5 FM 18.5 mi.Signal Strength 4 Amherst, MA University of Massachusetts Public Radio
[Info] WSCB 89.9 FM 1.0 mi.Signal Strength 5 Springfield, MA Springfield College College
[BC] [Info] WTCC 90.7 FM 1.6 mi.Signal Strength 5 Springfield, MA Springfield Technical Community College College
[BC] [Info] WAIC 91.9 FM 0.5 mi.Signal Strength 5 Springfield, MA American International College Public Radio
[BC] [Info] WHYN 93.1 FM 10.3 mi.Signal Strength 5 Springfield, MA Hot AC
[BC] [Info] WMAS 94.7 FM 3.3 mi.Signal Strength 5 Enfield, CT Adult Contemporary
[BC] [Info] WTIC 96.5 FM 26.9 mi.Signal Strength 4 Hartford, CT Hot AC
[BC] [Info] W247DL (WHYN-HD2) (CP) 97.3 FM 8.2 mi.Signal Strength 4 Westfield, MA Hip Hop
[Info] W249DP (WARE-AM) 97.7 FM 10.4 mi.Signal Strength 4 Springfield, MA Classic Hits
[BC] [Info] W251CT (WHLL-AM) 98.1 FM 3.3 mi.Signal Strength 2 Springfield, MA Country
[BC] [Info] W253CD (WLZX-AM) 98.5 FM 2.9 mi.Signal Strength 4 East Longmeadow, MA Rock
[BC] [Info] W255DL (WHYN-AM) 98.9 FM 10.3 mi.Signal Strength 3 Springfield, MA News/Talk
[BC] [Info] WLZX 99.3 FM 19.2 mi.Signal Strength 4 Northampton, MA Rock
[Info] WLCQ (LPFM) 99.7 FM 5.5 mi.Signal Strength 3 Feeding Hills, MA Christian Contemporary
[BC] [Info] W261DD (WACM-AM) 100.1 FM 4.3 mi.Signal Strength 4 Springfield, MA Oldies
[BC] [Info] WRCH 100.5 FM 31.8 mi.Signal Strength 3 New Britain, CT Adult Contemporary
[BC] [Info] WRNX 100.9 FM 10.8 mi.Signal Strength 4 Amherst, MA Country
[Info] WIOM (LPFM) 101.7 FM 4.0 mi.Signal Strength 4 Springfield, MA Adult Contemporary
[BC] [Info] WAQY 102.1 FM 8.3 mi.Signal Strength 5 Springfield, MA Classic Rock
[Info] WZCS (LPFM) 102.5 FM 3.7 mi.Signal Strength 4 Springfield, MA Spanish Christian
[BC] [Info] W283CK (WSPR-AM) 104.5 FM 3.7 mi.Signal Strength 4 West Springfield, MA Tropical
[Info] WREA (LPFM) 104.9 FM 7.1 mi.Signal Strength 2 Holyoke, MA Spanish Christian
[BC] [Info] WWEI 105.5 FM 10.3 mi.Signal Strength 4 Easthampton, MA Sports
[BC] [Info] WEIB 106.3 FM 19.2 mi.Signal Strength 3 Northampton, MA Smooth Jazz
[Info] WCCC 106.9 FM 25.3 mi.Signal Strength 4 Hartford, CT Christian Contemporary
[BC] [Info] WHYN 560 AM 9.0 mi.Signal Strength 5 Springfield, MA News/Talk
[BC] [Info] WNNZ 640 AM 11.4 mi.Signal Strength 4 Westfield, MA Public Radio
[Info] WACE 730 AM 5.5 mi.Signal Strength 5 Chicopee, MA Religious
[Info] WVNE 760 AM 25.8 mi.Signal Strength 3 Leicester, MA Religious
[BC] [Info] WTIC 1080 AM 26.6 mi.Signal Strength 3 Hartford, CT News/Talk
[Info] WARE 1250 AM 19.6 mi.Signal Strength 3 Ware, MA Classic Hits
[BC] [Info] WACM 1270 AM 3.2 mi.Signal Strength 5 Springfield, MA Oldies
[BC] [Info] WHLL 1450 AM 3.3 mi.Signal Strength 4 Springfield, MA Country
[BC] [Info] WSPR 1490 AM 4.3 mi.Signal Strength 4 West Springfield, MA Tropical
[BC] [Info] WLZX 1600 AM 2.9 mi.Signal Strength 5 East Longmeadow, MA Rock