OTTAWA – The CRTC awarded two new FM radio licences to International Harvesters for Christ Evangelistic Association Inc. for English-language Christian music stations in Kelowna and Saskatoon.
Harvesters is a not-for-profit corporation controlled by its board of directors.
The new Kelowna station will operate at 88.1 MHz (channel 201C) with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 4,200 watts (non-directional antenna with an effective height of antenna above average terrain (EHAAT) of 500 metres). The station will have a rebroadcasting transmitter in Kamloops that will operate at 99.1 MHz (channel 256B1) with an ERP of 3,000 watts (non-directional antenna with an EHAAT of 148.6 metres).
Despite an intervention from another Kelowna radio broadcaster suggesting that hat Harvesters’ application should have triggered a call for applications as it did not meet the criteria for an exception, the CRTC said that it is satisfied that no call was required due to the applicant’s limited projected advertising revenues.
“Given that the applicant projected limited local advertising revenues and that the station would operate in a specialty format, the Commission is of the view that the proposed station would not have an undue financial impact on incumbent stations in the market” reads the decision.
In Saskatoon, the new station will operate at 103.1 MHz (channel 276A) with an effective radiated power of 2,000 watts (non-directional antenna with an effective height of antenna above average terrain of 39.9 metres).
Both broadcast licences will expire on August 31, 2025.
