Radio / Television News

No new stations for Guelph

GATINEAU – The CRTC today said that there won’t be any new radio stations allowed in the Guelph, Ont., market. Three companies had applied to launch new FM stations in the city of about 120,000 about 100 kms west of Toronto and abutting the Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge markets and a fourth, Corus Entertainment’s CJOY, had asked to convert from AM to FM. Citing the size of the market and the current state of the economy, the Commission said no to all four requests. Guelph is a three-station city swamped by signals from across southern Ontario, where Corus owns AM Oldies station CJOY...