- 05/17/13 - Kamloops-based Jim Pattison Broadcast Group has announced the acquisition of three FM stations located in Calgary and Winnipeg, two from Bell Media and one from Astral. The transaction is subject to approval from the CRTC and contingent on Commission approval of the pending Astral-Bell Media transaction. Pattison release
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- 05/09/13 - The CRTC has approved
applications by Shaw Television to add digital transmitters to replace
existing analog transmitters for CHKM-TV Kamloops and CIFG-TV Prince
George. Kamloops will operate on channel 22 with a maximum ERP of
30,000 watts at 150 metres EHAAT and Prince George will operate on
channel 29 with a maximum ERP of 30,000 watts at 482 metres EHAAT. Both transmitters will rebroadcast the programming of CHAN-DT (Global BC) Vancouver. CRTC decision
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- 05/04/13 - Staff breathed a sigh of relief as they received an email from Rob Steele, president and CEO at Halifax-based Newcap Radio, announcing that plans for the sale of the company’s western assets have been terminated. He
said the process reaffirmed the value of the western stations to the
company, and further stated that Newcap plans to be in the radio
business in Alberta and BC for quite some time. Newcap owns K96.3 CKKO-FM Kelowna and Country 100.7 CIGV-FM Penticton.
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- 04/26/13 - AM 1150 CKFR Kelowna news anchor/reporter
Wendy McLeod has been pulled off the air for conflict of interest after
managers found out she was volunteering as a communications person for
Kelowna–Lake Country Liberal candidate, Norm Letnick. CBC News
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- 04/06/13 - RTDNA Canada has announced its BC Regional Award recipients. CJFC-TV Kamloops has won a Bert Cannings small market TV award for CJFC TV Evening News - July 5, 2012 and CKBZ-FM 100.1 Kamloops has won a Byron MacGregor small market best radio newscast award for B-100 Noon News - April 19, 2012. RTDNA Canada release
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- 02/18/13 - Bob Crouse, the voice of news, sports, and weather for CKXR Salmon Arm and the Big R network for over 30 years died February 7 after a two year battle with cancer. He was 63. There will be no service at his request. Bowers Funeral Service obituary
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- 02/04/13 - Retired CBC Radio host Neil Gillon
and his wife Lynn were among seven victims of an attack by a man wielding a
knife and possibly a hammer in downtown Vancouver Thursday night.
Gillon had been with CBC Radio in Prince Rupert, Kelowna and
Vancouver. He also reported news for CKIQ Kelowna, now AM1150 CKFR, in the late 1970s. Rod
Mickleburgh, The Globe and Mail CBC
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- 01/31/13 - The CRTC has approved an application by Vista Radio Ltd. to increase the maximum ERP for CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna from 10,000 to 36,800 watts, decrease the effective height of antenna above average terrain from 506 to -90 metres and relocate the transmitter site. Vista indicated that it requested the changes in order to improve coverage in the West Kelowna area. CRTC decision
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- 01/25/13
- Jason Mann, VP programming for
Vista Radio reports three current Juice
CJUI-FM
103.9 Kelowna sales team members
will be leaving
over the next several
weeks as the station transitions
client lists and
responsibilities. Puget
Sound Radio
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- 11/21/12 - Casey
Clarke, known for his work on CMT,
joins Country
100.7 CIGV-FM
Penticton as morning host. The
show debuts in the
New Year and will
be called The Casey Clarke Show with
Roo Phelps. He will continue
his nationally syndicated shows with CMT
through Casey
Clarke Productions from his new
base in the Okanagan.
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- 11/19/12
- Revelstoke council is
writing to the CRTC to have its local
CBC signal switched
back to being fed
from Kelowna rather than Kamloops
following a flood of emails from
listeners. The feed was switched
when the CBC opened its
Kamloops bureau
and station in early
October. The
Revelstoke Current
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- 11/13/12
- Long time The River CKRV-FM 97.5 Kamloops
morning host JT James
Taylor starts a new gig as midday host
at Capital FM CKRA-FM
96.3 Edmonton. He's been
at The River since 2005.
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- 10/09/12
- Daybreak
Kamloops with host Shelley
Joyce debuted this morning on
CBC Radio
One CBYK-FM
94.1 Kamloops.
The show takes over from the
Kelowna-based Daybreak South
for listeners in the region of
Thompson-Nicola, parts of the Fraser
Valley, southern Cariboo, and
Revelstoke. An open
house at 218 Victoria St. continues
until 2 p.m. today. CBC
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- 09/07/12
- An official announcement is expected
after 7 a.m. Monday on when the CBC
Kamloops bureau will launch and who will
host the CBYK-FM 94.1 morning
show. The four-person bureau
located at 218 Victoria St. includes two
former CFJC-TV personalities, anchor Rob
Polson and reporter Doug Herbert. Jason
Hewlett, Kamloops Daily News
CBC
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- 09/04/12
- The family is planning a private
memorial in Kelowna later this week for
Rhythm Pals lead singer Jack
Jensen, who died Friday August 31 in
Kelowna. The trio got their start
with Bill Rea at CKNW New Westminster in
the mid 1940s and moved to CKWX
Vancouver in the early 50s. They
later toured the U.S., Europe and Asia,
and worked in Hollywood before returning
to Canada, where they had their own
radio show on CBC. The Rhythm Pals
won awards for Canada's best country
group in 1965, '67 and '68, and were
inducted into the Canadian Country Music
Hall of Honour in 1989. Don
Plant, Penticton Herald
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- 08/30/12
- After less than four months as
PD/morning co-host at Okanagan
Country CIGV-FM
100.7
Penticton, Troy
Scott was released from the
station on Tuesday. Morning
co-host Roo
Phelps continues solo. Scott
is a music programmer for the HANK-FM
format at Kroeger
Media.
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- 08/21/12
- The CRTC has approved an application
by Voice
of the Shuswap Broadcast Society
for a low-power community FM station in
Salmon Arm. The new station will
operate at 93.7 MHz with an ERP of 15
watts non-directional at 556.6 metres
HAAT. It is to broadcast 98 hours
of programming each week, of which 62
hours would be station-produced, with
the remaining programming obtained from
other campus and community stations
across Canada and from the CBC. CRTC approval
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- 07/27/12
- Former K96.3 CKKO-FM
Kelowna morning host Kevin McGowan died
suddenly in Toronto August 8. He
was 58. He had worked in Winnipeg
and at several stations in Ontario and
had co-hosted the morning show at K96.3
Kelowna when it signed on in 2008.
Tony
Lofaro, The Ottawa Citizen All
Access Music Group
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- 07/27/12
- The CRTC has approved an application
by Shaw Television to amend the
broadcasting licence for the
conventional television programming
undertaking CHBC-TV
Kelowna and its transmitters CHBC-TV-1
Penticton and CHBC-TV-2 Vernon in order
to add post transitional digital
transmitters to replace its existing
analog transmitters. CRTC
release
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- 07/27/12
- The CRTC has
approved an application by Shaw
Television to amend the broadcasting
licence for the conventional television
programming undertaking CHAN-DT
Vancouver in order to add post
transitional digital transmitters to
replace its existing analog transmitters
CHKL-TV-1 Penticton and CHKL-TV-2
Vernon. CRTC
release
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- 07/18/12
- The CRTC has approved an application
by CBC to shut down all its analog
translators July 31 for its 23 English
and French language television stations
in Canada. Included are numerous
translators serving smaller communities
on Vancouver Island, the Fraser Valley
and BC Interior broadcasting the
programming of CBUT and CBUFT
Vancouver. CRTC
decision and transmitter list
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- 07/07/12 - CBC
will shut down the last of its analog
television transmitters by July
31. A long list of transmitters in
BC will go dark, including several in
the Okanagan. The Corporation says
the move will save $10 million a year
which it will be put into programming. CBC
Release Transmitter
List Coverage
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- 07/06/12
- TJ
Connors will co-host a.m.
drive with Christy Farrell On The
Juice CJUI-FM
103.9 Kelowna following the
departure of Gary Long to GM/PD of
Vista’s Cariboo Group and Justin “Drex”
Wilcomes to group PD/morning host on
Vancouver Island. TJ will also handle
the role of program director.
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- 06/28/12
- Former Victoria broadcaster Gerald
Pash has been appointed as
Citizenship Judge in British Columbia,
Citizenship, Immigration and
Multiculturalism. Following a
27-year career in radio in the Okanagan,
Fraser Valley and Victoria, he worked
for the Department of National Defence
for 22 years as a public affairs officer
at the Maritime Forces Pacific
Headquarters in Victoria. News
release
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- 06/12/12
- Radio NL CHNL AM
610 Kamloops and the WHL Kamloops
Blazers have signed a new
agreement for broadcasting rights
through the 2014-15 season. It
will mark the 29th consecutive year of
Blazers games on Radio NL.
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- 05/09/12
- The new Country 100.7, CIGV-FM
100.7 Penticton debuts ‘Okanagan
Mornings with Troy and Roo’ Monday
morning May 14. Troy
Scott, known for his work at CMT
and Jim Pattison Broadcast Group's
Kelowna stations, hosts with Roo
Phelps, who has been on air
evenings at JRfm CJJR-FM
97.3 Vancouver since 2007.
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- 05/02/12
- NL Broadcasting has announced that Mike Evenson, formerly
of The Q CKKQ-FM
100.3 Victoria, is the new p.m.
drive host on The River CKRV-FM
97.5 Kamloops and Dennon Stein
from SAIT in Calgary is the new swing
announced for The River and
sister station Radio NL CHNL AM
610.
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- 05/02/12
- James Peters has been selected as the
recipient of the 2012 RTDNA Canada
President's Fellowship. The
Fellowship of up to $3,000 is offered to
a working electronic journalist annually
to attend a seminar at the Poynter
Institute in St. Petersburg,
Florida. Peters is a
reporter/anchor at the Jim
Pattison Broadcast Group radio and
TV cluster in Kamloops. RTDNA
release
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- 05/02/12
- JACK FM CHTT-FM
103.1 Victoria has severed ties
with morning host Tarzan Dan Freeman,
who was hosting the show from Rogers'
Vancouver studios after being displaced
from CFUN-FM
104.9 when it changed format last
August. Tarzan hosted a.m. drive
at SUN FM CHSU-FM
99.9 Kelowna from 2005-11. Puget
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- 04/28/12
- Morning host and 20-year Giant FM
CIGV-FM
100.7 veteran Dennis Walker, along
with three other announcers, were let go
Friday, as the station repositioned
itself as Country 100.7. MyNaramata
The CRTC approved the purchase of CIGV
by Newfoundland Capital Corporation
(Newcap) in February. Wayne
Moore, Castanet
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- 04/26/12
- Former Kamloops and Vancouver
broadcaster Walter Jones died March 22
in Langley. He was 75. His
career included 15 years as a radio
broadcaster with CFJC Kamloops and CKWX
and CJVB Vancouver, and 27 years in
sales, including a short time in radio
sales at Vancouver market CISL in 1984
and '85. No service is
scheduled. Sun/Province
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- 03/30/12
- The CRTC has approved an application
by CBC
to replace the Corporation's existing
transmitter CBYK-FM Kamloops, using its
current technical parameters, operating
at 94.1 MHz with an ERP of 4,750 watts
non-directional at 124 metres HAAT, with
a new Enclish language station. It
would provide, during each broadcast
week, a minimum of 12 hours and 30
minutes of local programming originating
in Kamloops. The Commission also
approved an amendment to the licence for
CBTK-FM Kelowna by changing a number of
translators to rebroadcast CBYK-FM
Kamloops. CRTC
decision Dale
Bass, Kamloops This Week
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- 03/28/12
- Longtime CFJC Kamloops employee
and former City councillor Gordon Rye died Saturday
due to natural causes. He was
90. A private celebration of his
life was held Tuesday. He was
still working in radio when he was
elected a city alderman in the early
1980s. Mike
Youds, Kamloops Daily News
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- 03/23/12
- Canadian
Music Week has named Sunfm CHSU-FM
99.9 Kelowna broadcasters Dustin
Collins Music Director of the
Year - Small Market and Mark
Burley Program Director of the Year
- Small Market. CMW
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- 02/23/12
- Sun FM CICF-FM
105,7 Vernon morning show co-host
and news anchor Betty Selin is one of
eight recipients of the 2012 RTDNA
Lifetime Achievement Awards. She
has received a number of awards since
she began her career in broadcast
journalism in 1979. RTDNA
release
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- 02/20/12
- The CRTC has approved an application
by Newcap Inc. to acquire CKKO-FM
96.3 Kelowna from Sun Country
Radio Ltd. The price of the
transaction after adjustments is listed
as $5,329,147. CRTC
decision
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- 01/23/12
- Long-time CHNL AM
610 Kamloops Morning Mayor
Peter Olsen has taken a few weeks off
for prostate cancer treatment, but plans
to be back on air by March. Radio
NL info
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- 01/19/12
- Former Merritt and Castlegar radio
personality Jamie Trevor McDerment is
expected to return to court in Kamloops
for sentencing Friday afternoon after
pleading guilty to a string of charges
involving child pornography and
voyeurism. Tim
Petruk, Kamloops This Week
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