Klondike Sun ~ December 2, 2009
CFYT-FM graduates to a 7-year license
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CFYT-FM graduates to a 7-year license Story & photo by Dan Davidson
The big news at the annual general meeting for Dawson’s CFYT-FM radio station was that the volunteer run not-for-profit society had received approval from the CRTC to extend its broadcast license for another 7 years.
As president Kyla MacArthur told the 14 or so members at the meeting, this meant that the fledgling society had a new status.
“The training wheels are off,” she told the membership after the excited applause died down.
The station will be allowed to expand its output to 50 Watts, to broadcast in stereo.
The license notes: “Dawson City Radio indicated that the station would broadcast 126 hours of programming each broadcast week” with 44 hours of that time being home grown shows and the other “82 hours of programming originating from the commercial radio station CKRWFM Whitehorse.”
McArthur noted that the CRTC expects more from the station at this stage. The mostly music oriented station will need to find ways to increase its broadcasting of news, discussions between hosts and guests on current affairs, sports reports supplied by the City Recreation Department and other news.
The license states that the “applicant committed to devote at least 5% of the news broadcast to local stories each broadcast week.”
Some of this may take the form of live audio and video broadcasts of such events as the Dawson City Music Festival and the recent live audio coverage of election results during the municipal elections in October.
The station possesses remote broadcast equipment and volunteers have had training in how to use it.
In its ruling the CRTC encourages CFYT to pursue more of this type of content as part of its mandate as a Type B Community FM Radio Station.
MacArthur noted that the society has been successful in replacing a lot of its outdated equipment with the financial assistance of the City of Dawson’s funding program, as well as increased revenue from the rolling ads on DCTV’s channel 11. A recent “radiothon” raised $3,000.00.
Since the society is basically stable now in terms of having a home base, decent finances, good equipment and a base of some 18 volunteer programmers, MacArthur reported that the board felt this would be a good year to engage in visioning and planning for the future, for what the society might look like and be doing in five year’s time.
Director Peter Menzies (one of the founders of the original version of CFYT two decades ago) led a presentation on possible major goals of a 5 year plan, the main points of which included facilities (particularly a larger working space) and equipment; programming (including podcasting and more remotes); organizational structure (including part time paid staff); better communication with volunteers; and governance… Cont’d on p. 3
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