CFSI-FM

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CFSI-FM
Frequency 107.9 MHz (FM)
BrandingSaltspring Island Radio
Programming
Format commercial radio
Ownership
OwnerSatnam Radio Group
History
First air date
September 14, 2009
Call sign meaning
C F Saltspring Island
Technical information
Class A
ERP 130 watts average
700 watts peak
horizontal polarization only
HAAT 215.6 meters

CFSI-FM was a Canadian radio station began broadcasting on September 14, 2009. Broadcasting on 107.9 FM, it is the first radio station licensed to Salt Spring Island in British Columbia.

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The station was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on October 22, 2007. [1] It offers a community-oriented programming format, including a variety of different musical styles: independent artists, blues, classical, jazz, world music. Programming also includes local interest talk shows and spiritual shows. Richard Moses, a former programmer with CKUA in Edmonton and CJRT in Toronto, was one of the contributing programmers.

The station began testing on June 15, 2009. [2] and officially began broadcasting in September 2009.

On September 23, 2011, Salt Spring Island Radio Corp. received CRTC approval to operate a new FM transmitter at 102.1 MHz in Mount Bruce with the call sign CFSI-FM-1. [3]

In 2013, CFSI-FM was rebranded as Green FM, [4]

The station was sold in mid-February 2013 to South Asian broadcaster Satnam Media Group; Satnam announced it intended to maintain the existing format on CFSI. [5] However, after several non-compliances in a CRTC Audit, as well as alleged missing voluntary audits, including faulty program logs, as well as missing annual returns and several years of unpaid fees, a number of former CFSI staff/volunteers intervened [6] with the CRTC asking for license revocation due to the poor management of Satnam Media. After a hearing in May 2015, the CRTC revoked CFSI's radio license on June 25, 2015, and CFSI went off the air on July 25, 2015. [7]

Notes

On November 28, 2019, Gulf Islands Community Radio Society submitted an application to operate a new community FM radio station at Salt Spring Island. The new station would operate on CFSI-FM's former frequencies 107.9 MHz with a rebroadcasting transmitter at 102.1 MHz. Gulf Islands received CRTC approval to operate an English-language community FM radio station as well as a rebroadcasting transmitter on Salt Spring Island on January 24, 2022. [8]

The station was launched in the spring of 2022 as CHIR-FM Gulf Islands Radio at 107.9 FM Salt Spring Island and VF5176 at 102.1 FM Mount Bruce. (See also: CHIR-FM).

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References

  1. ↑ CRTC decision 2007-387
  2. ↑ CFSI 107.9 Testing 1,2,3,4
  3. ↑ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-612
  4. ↑ Green FM - 107.9 and 102.1 - Salt Spring Island, BC Canada
  5. ↑ "New CFSI owner pledges to maintain format - Gulf Islands Driftwood". Archived from the original on 2014-08-31. Retrieved 2013-02-13.
  6. ↑ "Interventions". 29 August 2019.
  7. ↑ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2015-281
  8. ↑ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2022-9, Community radio station and transmitter on Salt Spring Island, CRTC, January 24, 2022

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