Commission says Parry Sound has enough radio stations

GATINEAU – The CRTC told Rogers Broadcasting this morning that it doesn’t think Parry Sound can support any more radio stations. It denied the company’s application for a broadcasting licence to operate an new rock format FM station in the cottage country town of about 5,800 people.“After considering the positions of the parties in this proceeding, the Commission finds that the primary issue arising from this application relates to the Parry Sound commercial radio market and its ability to sustain an additional radio station,” says the Commission decision. There’s only one radio station in Parry Sound itself, Haliburton Broadcasting’s Moose...