by Myron Love
WINNIPEG — CJOB, Winnipeg’s most listened to radio station, is applying to the CRTC to simulcast on FM as well as AM.
“It’s not that we want to abandon the AM dial,” says CJOB general manager Garth Buchko. “AM is important to us. It’s just that with more and more taller buildings going up in downtown Winnipeg, we find that there are pockets throughout the city that our signal can’t reach now. With FM, everybody will be able to hear us.”
Buchko is hopeful that the CRTC will respond to CJOB’s application within the next six months and that the station will be broadcasting on FM by next spring.
One hitch though is that Corus Radio, which owns CJOB, already operates two FM stations, the legal limit for any one company, in the Winnipeg market. In response, Buchko says that it is up to the interpretation of the CRTC and he has no comment on that matter.
