OTTAWA – Burlington, ON could soon have a new radio station after the CRTC issued a call for comments on market capacity and on the appropriateness of issuing a call for radio applications to serve that area.
The Commission said Friday that it issued the call after receiving an application from Byrnes Communications Inc. for a new commercial mainstream music station in that market. The private broadcaster, based in Woodstock, ON, operates the adult contemporary station 104.7 Heart FM serving the London-Woodstock-Tillsonburg areas.
The city of Burlington is included within both the Hamilton Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) and the Hamilton Central (CTRL) Numeris diary market, which is currently served by seven commercial radio stations. Burlington accounts for 24% of the total population of the Hamilton CMA.
Interventions are due by February 17 and the deadline to file replies is February 27, 2015. Following receipt of comments, the Commission said that it will conduct an assessment of the market’s capacity to support an additional station, taking into account economic and financial data as well as the comments received in the public consultation.
