Radio station wants local news conditions removed

FORT ERIE, Ont. — In an application posted Tuesday to the CRTC’s website, radio station owner Byrnes Communications is asking that a condition of licence, related to the broadcasting of local news content, be removed from the licence of its CFLZ FM station in Fort Erie, Ont. Burlington, Ont.-based Byrnes Communications acquired CFLZ FM (along with CJED FM in Niagara Falls) from Vista Radio in February 2018, and “inherited a legacy Condition of Licence (COL) placed on CFLZ FM over a decade prior,” reads Byrnes’ supplementary brief to its application. The COL in question (condition #3) states: “During each broadcast...