CRTC bars Gill Broadcasting from operating illegal Winnipeg radio station

By Connie Thiessen The CRTC has issued an order prohibiting Gill Broadcasting from illegally operating a South Asian radio station in Winnipeg. The decision follows numerous complaints from Winnipeg multi-ethnic station CKJS-FM, owned by Evanov Communications, over the past eight years that a tourist information station was carrying on programming without a broadcast licence. Gill Broadcasting, helmed by Gill and Baldev Gill, had been operating CKYG-FM Winnipeg at 90.5 MHz as an exempt low-power tourist information radio station. Following a hearing last month, the commission has barred the Gills from having any involvement with any broadcast undertaking that isn’t in...