CKNS-FM

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This article is about the radio station licensed to Haldimand, Ontario. CKNS were also the call letters of an unrelated former radio station in Espanola, Ontario. For that station, see its successor CKNR.

CKNS is a Canadian commercial radio station, licensed to Haldimand, Ontario in 2005. Since November 2006, the station is branded on-air as "Mix 92-9."

The application proposed a unique multi-genre Canadian format including a minimum 60% fully qualified Canadian content as defined by CRTC regulations. The balance of music would contain Canadian elements. This percentage was selected to enable the station to play popular music by Canadian artists that does not qualify under present rules as Canadian content.

The proposed format is inspired by Internet radio station LG73, which is in turn inspired by, and an unofficial tribute to, the former Vancouver broadcast station CKLG, when it was an AM station under that brand. CKLG was never exclusively or overwhelmingly devoted to Canadian content as the Internet station or the proposed Haldimand station.

Bel-Roc suggested that they would eventually apply to rebroadcast the station on available frequencies in many other Canadian cities.

After several weeks of "test" broadcasting, CKNS 92.9 FM "officially" went on the air at 6:00 a.m. Monday May 15th, 2006. Former CKOC 1150 on-air DJ Bob Sherwin launched the station's Morning Show, and former FM 108 on-air DJ Burt Thombs launched the station's Afternoon Drive-Home Show. The station broadcasts from its offices and studios on Argyle Street South in Caledonia, Ontario. Some of the station's content is also broadcast by live feed directly into the Caledonia studio from remote locations across the country, including Phil Kushnir's show out of Vancouver, British Columbia. Jarrad Brooke also hosts his radio program live from his studio in Adelaide, Australia, something hardly seen before in Canadian commercial radio.

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[edit] Application for 92.9

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the application for a station serving Haldimand, but assigned the frequency for which the station initially applied, 106.7 FM, to another station in a nearby market (CIKZ). Applicant Bel-Roc Communications Inc. then applied for 92.9, from a transmitter location approximately 20 kilometers east of the original, at lower effective radiated power, but from a higher tower. A contemporaneous competing application from CHCD in nearby Simcoe, Ontario sought the adjacent frequency, 93.1, for a CHCD repeater in Haldimand.

CHCD alleged that while the parameters proposed for 106.7 would have put a signal into Hamilton, Ontario sufficient to stay with Haldimand-to-Hamilton commuters and let the station to draw on revenues from the Hamilton radio market, those now proposed for 92.9 would put inadequate signals not only into Hamilton, but into much of Haldimand itself. CHCD contested the station could only survive on advertising revenue from Simcoe and Norfolk County, even in spite a condition of license barring it from soliciting local advertising in Simcoe (and also nearby Brantford).

Individually, CIWV in Hamilton and Standard Broadcasting, owners of CKLH, CKOC and CHAM in Hamilton, also opposed the application. They contended that the proposed signal into Haldimand was indeed impaired, but that the signal into the Hamilton area was actually significantly increased. Standard argued that CKNS would no longer focus uniquely on the Haldimand community; for a time in 2005, the proposed station's own website branded it a "Haldimand/Hamilton" station. CIWV – originally co-founded by Rae Roe, who had since sold his stake and gone on to co-found CKNS – suggested that CKNS perhaps be barred from soliciting advertising in Hamilton as well.

In response to these interventions, Bel-Roc agreed that they planned to solicit advertising in Hamilton, but insisted they would focus on Haldimand listeners; they disputed other details of the opposing interventions, and argued that the new parameters were necessary to meet Industry Canada requirements regulating the use of the broadcast spectrum.

The CRTC approved CKNS' application for 92.9, and denied CHCD's for 93.1.

[edit] On Air Schedule

[edit] Monday - Friday

6:00 am - 10:00 am: Bob Sherwin with Pam Clavir (Information Updates)

10:00 am - 3:00 pm: Burt Thombs

3:00 pm - 6:00 pm: Phil Kushnir with Rob O'Brien (Information Updates)

[edit] Saturday

Midnight - 3:00 am: Distant Early Warning with Gordon Tanner (Progressive Music)

9:00 am - 1:00 pm: John Stoneham (Country Music)

[edit] Sunday

Midnight - 3:00 am: Jarrad Brooke (Australian Music)

10:00 pm - midnight: Cafe Jazz with Ted Hasiuk (Smooth Jazz)

[edit] External links

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