CBC reporter and videographer Steven D’Souza fondly remembers his old town, Richmond Hill, as a cosy place. His community website has published an account of D’Souza’s career.

After leaving Ryerson in 2000 and becoming a sports reporter, he realized that a life in sports meant no social life at all, since most events take place on evenings and weekends. After a short stint doing this at Canadian Press, he interviewed with both TSN and the CBC, and chose the CBC.

Starting off as a producer on CBC’s morning show, D’Souza got to sit in on interviews. He realized that to get in front of the camera, he would need to get out of the Ceeb’s head office in Toronto, so he traveled to Summerside, PEI, for his first reporting gig.

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	CBC News at Six, Ontario, Personalities	Posted at 12:01 pm (22 May 2008)

The CBC has applied to the CRTC for permission to add an FM transmitter at Brockville Ontario to simulcast its Ottawa signal. The transmitter would operate at 106.5 FM and have 3,000 watts in power.

UPDATE: In a caffeine-overloaded day of blogging yesterday, I accidentally wrote Brockton instead of Brockville in the headline. Thanks to Neil for pointing it out.

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	Ontario, Transmission	Posted at 8:32 am (09 Oct 2007)

Barrie city councillors have invited the CBC to make a presentation about a Barrie-based station for the Simcoe-Muskoka area. But there’s already some static about CBC’s proposal from… wait for it… the commercial local rock station.

I know, you totally didn’t see that coming.

Doug Bingley, Rock 95′s general manager said “I don’t know if there is a need for it. I think the local stations do a good job covering the local issues.”

He added that he doesn’t consider CBC Radio to be a threat to his business. (It was not immediately clear if he was crossing his fingers behind his back when he said it.)

At least one counsellor, Michael Prowse, sides with the commercial stations. “I’m not opposed to the CBC, but I do feel that we currently have several privately owned/operated radio stations currently servicing the city, and I would not want to be seen as supporting a corporation paid for by taxpayers over the private operators who do not operate using tax dollars.”

(CBC Radio One already reaches Barrie listeners, but nearly all of the content comes from Toronto.)

The region is one of more than a dozen communities across Canada that could get its own CBC Radio station. The plan would create 15 production centres, expand coverage for five existing small stations, and the form eight new bureaus.

On a side note, Simcoe’s Spirit Catcher, pictured above, might make a good radio tower. I’m just sayin’.

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	CBC Radio 1, Ontario, Transmission	Posted at 8:34 am (13 Jun 2007)