The Ceeb has asked the CRTC for permission to extend its radio coverage across the eastern tip of P.E.I. Currently, people east of Souris are outside the CBC’s broadcast range.
The problem of local radio reception was made worse last year when the Island’s last AM station, CFCY, switched to the FM band. That meant people in both the eastern and western ends of the province were unable to pick up any local radio signals.
The CRTC has already approved an application for new transmitter in western P.E.I., and Coffin is impatient for a new signal to reach into eastern Kings County.
The CBC hopes to have new transmitters up in the eastern and western ends of the province by the summer of 2008.
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I was in Swan River, Manitoba three years ago and couldn’t find the signal for CBC Manitoba on either Am or Fm searches. I could get CBK.. Regina however. I asked a few people if they could get CBW there, but no one said they could. I never thought about this until I saw the PEI piece I am responding to. I wonder if CBC Manitoba has checked to see if they make it through to Swan River.
CBC Manitoba doesn’t reach that far, there is a CBC Manitoba affiliate located south of Swan River called CKX, but from what it sounds like, the signal of the CBC aff doesn’t reach all the way to Swan River
CKX Radio does not carry CBC radio at all- they operate a totally different private radio program. CKX-TV also switches in and out of CBC-TV programming… inserting local advertising, a news and a noon show- by cutting in and out of the CBC stream. My point is that a new Manitoban Radio repeater station- like the one supplying CBC Winnipeg to Brandon and Southwestern Manitoba- would be able to carry Winnipegs’ CBC Radio to the Swan River region of Manitoba. That way CBC North- which broadcasts from Thompson in Northern Manitoba- could be re-routed to Swan River to connect these separate outer regions of our Province. Having a Radio dead spot in Swan River cuts them out of the Province
Oops, my mistake. Was thinking radio as TV. We have a good feed of CBC Manitoba south of Swan River, I guess CBC felt that Swan River would be better off with a Sask feed than MB feed… pretty weird though.