The show was staffed up and set to launch with great fanfare Monday morning on 94.1 FM. That frequency already is licensed and used by the CBC for simultaneous broadcast in Saskatoon of the network’s provincewide AM signal, with the morning show out of Regina. The plan was to use that place on the FM dial, at least in the mornings, for live local broadcasting. As of Monday, Saskatoon no longer would be the biggest city in Canada without a local morning show on CBC radio.
The plan went sideways this week because the network forgot to apply for the requisite federal broadcast license.
h/t Rob
Broadcast license?
We ain’t got no license.
We don’t need no license.
I don’t have to show you no stinkin’ license!
It must have been even more infuriating when nobody called in to say the station was off the air.
Same thing happened in Kitchener-Waterloo a few weeks ago.In an utterly amazing fashion, the license was approved and issued within a few days.
If I didn’t know better I would think that the CBC had the inside track with the CRTC.
Due diligence. Guess that what a billion bucks a years buys you.
Who asked for them?
A posting for a job at CBC calling for “any race except Caucasian” is prompting shocked reactions online.
The posting appeared on the website for Larissa Mair Casting & Associates and on Craigslist, but has since been changed or pulled down completely. You can see a screenshot of the Craigslist post here.
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1111449/thumbs/o-CBC-CAUCASIANS-WHITE-AD-570.jpg?3
The ad calls for audition submissions for a male host between 23-35 years of age and not white for the “Kids’ CBC” programming block.
A posting for a job at CBC calling for “any race except Caucasian” is prompting shocked reactions online.
The posting appeared on the website for Larissa Mair Casting & Associates and on Craigslist, but has since been changed or pulled down completely.
The ad calls for audition submissions for a male host between 23-35 years of age and not white for the “Kids’ CBC” programming block.
I keep tellin ya – it’s not a political party it’s a patronage brokering network – insiders get political influence/protection and access to public funds in return for remittance – it’s patterned after the old world family compacts (extortion/protection syndicates). Problem is, it only works if they are foolishly given political power by voters – something we have already told them we will never do again unless they reform their malfeasant ways. Not even with a pretty face boy fronting the old Librano dons and their we-first agenda fools us – we’ve been robbed too many times by the LPC.
Rules/laws/ethics are for the Hoi polloi not the philosopher patricians of Mother corpse.
I’m only surprised they didn’t want only Imams for the show.
As for the real ad its shows just exactly who the real bigots are.
That the “progressives” can’t see they have replaced the KKK is what is really fascinating. Considering they are using the same MO.
From segregating the population into castes, to making special laws for different ethnic groups, or gender. Its all divisive. The exact opposite of so called “Inclusiveness”.
These people in the name of Tolerance have made a graveyard of equality.
just think , the snivel servants that are on both ends of that licence get a defined benefit pension forever
Details, details.
No problem for the MotherCorp.
Max wins the thread.
But, let me get this straight. CBC has a licence to broadcast over FM 94.1 in Saskatoon. They use it to simulcast a show from Regina that is originally on AM.
They need another licence to broadcast a similar show out of a studio in Saskatoon? Same broadcaster, same style of show as that which is already on that frequency? Really?
The problem here is not that somebody at CBC screwed up, it’s that the whole regulatory framework is a dog’s breakfast.
You nailed it, BJG.
Has anyone ever heard anyone else extolling the virtues of the state communications regulator? The bureaucrats who limit the number of stations per market, censor Canadian broadcasters and prevent competition among celular and cable providers? No institution has done more to stifle free speech in this country than the CRTC.
That the CBC, who are campaigning to prevent Sun News from receiving equal treatment, cannot comply with their protective regulator is a bonus.
sounds like CKUA r-d-o in Albertie. then again maybe NOT!
started out as a UofEh thingie, went dead in late 90’s when .Gov pulled $, phoenix like resurrection with private donors. Broadcasts on several FM frequencies depending on geographic location. They play it schmart though, no politics except Sunday noon-ish show for provincial roundtable. It’s really all about the music!
Saskatchewan has a big cbc audience. Not sure why?
Relax -the cbc used to handle the CRTC duties before we had the CTRC.
Why would they need another voice in Toon town?
And that’s one good station, too.
BJG @ 8:54 p.m. gets it.
I knew that radio stations need a license to broadcast. I didn’t know they needed a license for a specific show.
The CBC was created by an act of Parliament. For it to have to obtain a license (for each outlet yet) is an insane waste of tax dollars.
But then the CBC itself is an insane waste of tax dollars. Stop funding it. And sell it to the highest private bidder.
The Charter of Rights claims that in Canada there is “freedom of the press and other media of communication”. No one should even need a license to broadcast if we have “freedom of … other media of communication”, any more than to publish a newspaper. Just stay out of the way those who have already got their broadcasting frequency. And abolish the CRTC.
Many alleged Charter rights have been eviscerated by the clowns on the Supreme Court over the past 30 years. This particular right has never even been observed correctly in the first place.
It’s a good thing you don’t need a license to have your say on the Internet.