Total 2005 charitable contributions: $238 million

TORONTO – Counting donated air time, private Canadian radio stations contributed more than $238 million in the 2005 broadcast year to charitable initiatives. Efforts ranged from a single station’s campaign in North Bay, Ont., to help raise money for a boy’s life-saving heart transplant, to international disasters such as Southeast Asian tsunami relief, says the press release from Canadian Broadcast Sales (CBS), a national sales firm owned by Rogers Communications and Corus Entertainment, representing approximately 60% of all national Canadian radio revenue. In response to a request from CBS, 103 of its client stations responded with details of charitable activities...