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Already this sounds very much Jim Pattison
"Staff will be encouraged to walk, cycle or use transit to work"
On his proposed wages, who could afford to drive.

Well, if they can, I'm sure he can tell them where to get a car.

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They have to be on the air within one year, yes?

Agent gets licence for new FM station in Vancouver
by MARSHA LEDERMAN
Globe & Mail
May 31, 2008
                                                              
VANCOUVER -- After years of getting his big-name acts played on the radio, music impresario Sam Feldman (pictured) is getting into the business directly. The long-time Vancouver-based music manager and agent (Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Joni Mitchell) has been granted a licence to launch a new commercial radio station in Vancouver.

The station at 104.1 FM will operate a format known as Triple A (Adult Alternative Album) with an emphasis on new music (half of its play list will have been released within the past two years) and emerging artists (at least 15 per cent of the weekly play list will be devoted to emerging artists, according to the application). The new station will also devote 15 per cent of its play list to so-called special interest music, including roots, folk, jazz, blues and world music.

Approval was granted yesterday by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

Mr. Feldman's partners in the venture include another radio newcomer, David Aisenstat (restaurateur whose properties include The Keg) and veteran radio programmers Bob Mackowycz and Roy Hennessy. TSN personality Michael Landsberg is also involved. The ownership group, tentatively calling itself Shore FM, plans to launch the station in the first half of 2009.

Meanwhile, the migration away from the AM dial continues in Vancouver, as CBC Radio One's signal will move to FM. As part of yesterday's decision, the CRTC said the CBC can move to 88.1 FM but also maintain its 690 AM signal to reach a wide geographic area.

In another switch, the easy listening format commercial station 600 AM (CKBD), operated by the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group Ltd., will go off the air and be replaced by a new FM station at 100.5 FM. The new station, to be launched in late fall, will also take on the Triple A format, with a focus on new and emerging music.

The CBC's request to operate an FM transmitter on Gabriola Island was denied, as was its request to operate an FM transmitter in Nanaimo.

I was under the impression that there were no open FM slots left on the Vancouver FM spectrum.  I thought that 94.5 and 96.1 were the last ones.

Are these Low power FM licenses?

That logo looks more like easy listening than alt.
Oye. Why can't they TRY to get a little local? Call it the "Burrard" or something, I don't care. Anything other than what we hear in EVER other place.

OK, Vancouver people, I'm curious...

When CKBD leaves 600AM do you think the frequency will go silent, or will an existing AM up the dial jump at the channel?

And...

Does anyone think the standards/easy listening format will be picked up by another Vancouver AM station?  Seems to me a pitty that 730AM does nothing but traffic.

Thoughts, anyone?

when 600 leaves I'll better tune in L.A.'s 640 KFI !

Like we really need another station that plays the same music as all the others. Hopefully this one will have little or no talk or entertaining as they call it!

So the two new FM signals that have been granted are almost identical.  Very interesting.  How are the CRTC held accountable, and by whom?  It's interesting how radio has become all about telling the CRTC what they want to hear in the application process and then doing your own thing after that.   The CRTC is a bigger waste than ever right now due to how they handle this entire condition in Canadian radio.

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So the two new FM signals that have been granted are almost identical.  Very interesting.  How are the CRTC held accountable, and by whom?  It's interesting how radio has become all about telling the CRTC what they want to hear in the application process and then doing your own thing after that.   The CRTC is a bigger waste than ever right now due to how they handle this entire condition in Canadian radio.

Tough position for the CRTC on this one though - granting a true independant is part of the CRTC's mandate for diversity in ownership - so they look good. PLUS, apparently Pattison is the only one who could use the frequency they were granted because of the closeness to their Q frequency in Vic.

Most importantly, Pattison came to the table WITH 12 FREAKIN' MILLION in Canadian Talent Development, while Sam's group was second most of all the applicants with $7 million (tied with Newcap). That's 19 million towards developing new artists (in theory anyways). Pretty tough to overlook.

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Tough position for the CRTC on this one though - granting a true independant is part of the CRTC's mandate for diversity in ownership - so they look good. PLUS, apparently Pattison is the only one who could use the frequency they were granted because of the closeness to their Q frequency in Vic.

Most importantly, Pattison came to the table WITH 12 FREAKIN' MILLION in Canadian Talent Development, while Sam's group was second most of all the applicants with $7 million (tied with Newcap). That's 19 million towards developing new artists (in theory anyways). Pretty tough to overlook.

So the 19 mill these two companies offered up, what does that do for the public?  The listening audience?  Is that not the CRTC's job, to ensure the public is represented?

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Is that not the CRTC's job, to ensure the public is represented?

Hahahaha...that's rich!  Oh Yeah you should do stand up.  If the CRTC cared anything about the "public" they wouldn't be making stations play all the CANCON crap they have to play...that only really serves the artists who aren't even listening to the stations that are being forced to play their crap.

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Hahahahahaha.... The Peak!!! OK, this is the EXACT LOGO that Corus had for 107.3 The Peak in Calgary before they flipped to Q107 a few years back.

It's also the same logo used by CJAV-FM in Port Alberni.

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Does anyone think the standards/easy listening format will be picked up by another Vancouver AM station?  Seems to me a pitty that 730AM does nothing but traffic.

I sure hope it does, because it'd be a shame to see a great format be let go to waste, and to see its target audience go unrepresented. Maybe AM730 should dump "all traffic, all the time" and pick up the standards/EZ format.

Isn't CJAV-fm in Port Alberni a Pattison station as well??

what is the current CANCON level?