OTTAWA – Halifax is getting a new FM station.
The CRTC approved an application for a new English-language commercial FM station run by HFX Broadcasting Inc. after a public hearing which began on May 28, 2009. Applications by Acadia Broadcasting and Frank Torres, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated, were denied.
HFX has proposed a new adult album alternative station blending classic rock, 70’s pop rock and modern rock targeted to listeners between the ages of 35 and 64, skewed to females aged 35-54. The company currently operates CKHZ-FM Halifax.
The Commission also denied a request by Parrsboro Radio Society to change the authorized contours of its low-power community Type B radio programming undertaking CICR-FM Parrsboro.
The company had asked to increase the station’s effective radiated power from 50 to 500 watts, but the CRTC said that the communities that it wishes to serve through the proposed power increase are not encompassed by the proposed contours, and would represent communities which it was never licensed to serve.
