WINNIPEG – Missed deadlines, low levels of Cancon and what appears to be an avoidance of some of its license conditions has landed Winnipeg’s CJWV-FM in regulatory hot water.
The Commission will have a single item on its hearing agenda at the Winnipeg Radisson on September 29th – CJWV and its failure to comply with several Commission demands – not to mention the demands of its own license.
For example, the station, owned by a company called Harmony Broadcasting, is licensed as an instructional campus radio station. However, from the look, feel and sound of its web site, FLAVA 107.9, as it’s branded, does not appear to be related to any school and operates as an R&B/hip-hop station.
After extensions to deadlines and missed promises to send logger tapes and other information to the Commission ("Despite several telephone conversations with the licensee, whereby it was granted several extensions, and whereby the licensee committed to submit the requested material by 15 June 2005, the material was never received," reads the hearing announcement), the station did finally send it in.
The Commission then found the station was, for example, airing 0.83% news instead of 4% and aired no educational programming at all despite a condition of license calling for it.
Then, "In an attempt to conduct a second examination of the station’s programming, a Commission staff letter dated 6 February 2006 was sent to the licensee requesting the submission of logger tapes and other related material for the week of 29 January to 4 February 2006. While the requested material was to have been submitted to the Commission by 20 February 2006, it has never been received," reads the CRTC release from Tuesday.
