Patrick Martin wrote:
Interesting that the CBC is shutting off most MWers in the East and yet they are still everywhere in the West.
They've tried, to a certain extent (as with CBU), but the CRTC won't let them out of their mandate to cover as close to 100% of the population with Radio One service as possible.
It was fairly easy to replicate the coverage area (on Canadian soil, anyway) of signals like CBL, CBO, CBM and CBA on FM. Doing that with CBK or CBW or CBX would take a whole bunch of new FM transmitter sites that aren't in the Corporation's budget.
And because the CRTC *has* allowed them to do "nested" FM transmitters in most of the big Western cities (Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon I think, Edmonton, Calgary and now Vancouver), the CBC still gets to serve urban audiences on FM, where it wants to be, while keeping the CRTC happy by maintaining the AM signals for the hinterlands.
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