Radio / Television News

CTV, Harvard bid on same radio frequency, twice

OTTAWA – CTV, on behalf of its radio division Chum, and Harvard Broadcasting both resubmitted their bids for a new radio station in Edmonton to the CRTC Monday, and both requested the same channel frequency – again. The CRTC granted partial approved the two applications last October in Broadcasting Decision 2008-288, but asked the companies to amend their respective applications within 90 days by proposing an FM frequency other than 107.1 MHz (which it awarded to John Charles Yerxa). So, both CTV and Harvard re-submitted their proposals, and both requested the frequency 95.7 MHz (channel 239C1). After determining that the Edmonton radio...