It is becoming a custom for the CBC to provide us with some comic relief during the challenge of obtaining our licence to broadcast. Finally we are approved by the CRTC for a community licence at 98.7 FM with 60 watts.
This is what they have to say, have a listen:
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Canadian Community and Campus Radio Stations Are Eligible for Annual Funding Support Under the Following Programs, According to the Program Priorities Cited.
If you have ideas of merit please get in touch with CKGI 98.7 FM Gabriola Community Radio as soon as you can. stnmgr@ckgi.ca
This is Your Community Public Radio – Add Your Personal Touch to our Programming!
1. Radio Talent Development Program
The goal of the Radio Talent Development Program is to develop innovative local interest programming. The components of this program are: (a) producing local-interest content in the area of spoken word, and (b) providing training, mentoring, and/or education to those producing this content.
Total funding available: $80,000
Eligible amounts: between $500 and $10,000
2. Youth Internship Program
The Youth Internship Program is aimed at stations that are seeking to work with young Canadians in search of mentorship, education, and/or training in broadcasting within a community-oriented radio station. Its goal is to increase station capacity and outreach through recruitment, hiring, and training of young talented radio programmers while contributing new and innovative programming to stations. The components of this program are: (a) the mentorship, education, and/or training of a youth intern(s), and (b) music or spoken word programming produced by the intern(s).
Total funding available: $80,000
Eligible amounts: between $500 and $10,000
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The CRFC’s mandate is to provide support to the more than 150 licensed campus and community radio stations in Canada and to foster a well-resourced, dynamic, and accessible sector. It distributes funds under four priority areas.
1. Local Community News and Access
Local reflection in news, public affairs, arts, and culture; community access and outreach programming; and training and production, including:
2. Community Music and Expression
Programming and projects that highlight and promote local music and emerging artists, including:
3. Emerging Distribution Technologies
Planning and implementation of systems to support new program delivery technologies, including:
4. Sustainability and Capacity-Building
Skills and knowledge central to the ability of community radio stations to effectively serve their local communities, including:
| Timeline for our next call for funding applications |
Here is our planned timeline. Please note that these dates may change. If that is the case, the CRFC will publish new dates on our website.
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Agenda
Mailing address for one year by the generous donation of Lifetime member Davy Bouvier. Thank you.
Report on Tower site progress – IT progress next month’s agenda for the meeting of April 19, 2012.
Determine designate or process for CRFC funding application
Committee of John and Davy to present Ken with a final draft for approval before the deadline and John to submit. We are only applying for Radio Talent Development Program.
CCCU – The Caft program would allow you to debit a person’s account (with their written permission of course) and credit the Society account by direct deposit.Costs for this program are- One time set up fee- $175.00 Monthly fee- $15.00 ( this fee would allow you to send 1 file per month containing up to 20 transactions (debits))
Ken to ask they waive the fee for one year.
Permanent Studio interim report – Ken / Gerry
Add wi as a candidate.
Short term Studio office report – John
CU Mall, ask the universe with the help of a writer
Art for CKGI 98.7 FM – Your Community Radio. To include the existing artwork lighthouse on a rock.
John will coordinate skol fun drive for summer.
Photos of next membership drive for CRFC website can will ask for a photographer.
Gerry will coordinate a membership drive for April long if site at mall Ava. Gerry will check with Skol re signage. Davy,ken,john,john Gerry volunteered Gerry seek times from remaining volunteers.
Feb 13
Re: Gabriola Radio Station
Letter to the Editor of The Sounder
Tuesday, January 3 2012
Do we need music in our lives, as we need air food and water? Well, no, I suppose we don’t. Do we nonetheless want music? Of course we do. Similarly, while we may not absolutely require a Gabriola community radio station in order to exist, a great many of us see it as a very valuable addition to our island way of life.
A local community radio station is quite different from an off-island campus radio station which exists primarily to serve a mostly youthful audience of students. Our station will address— and be participated in by— all age groups and will greatly help coordinate and disseminate all the many creative activities of our island. How the station will ultimately evolve is entirely up to those Gabriolans who become involved.
Technically, establishing the station involves installing a very low power 60 watt transmitter which will be located in a high elevation treed area largely screened from view. Standing in front of a microwave oven, or even making a cell phone call, would expose you to vastly more electromagnetic radiation than this tower ever could.
Fire, ambulance, and police services will be able to use the station’s tower to improve their coverage. In the interests of public safety, they will also be able to maintain communications even during power outages.
After long campaigning, the federal government has granted us the exclusive use of an assigned frequency. Now it’s up to us to get the station up and running for all Gabriolans!
For more information on your very own community radio station, please visit CKGI.ca
(con’t from letter)
Community radio is an asset to the community it serves.
Many residents recognize this is an opportunity for the community to be more independent and resilient.
Our proposal includes a secure facility with durable equipment, We want to keep repairs cost and down time to a minimum. Yes the $350,000 represents a low operating cost facility. CKGI could build less expensively, but that would increase operating and maintenance costs. $60,000 represents a operating budget from 10 years ago currently we are reviewing a proposed budget that would be in the $100,000 dollar range. This includes three part time staff persons (Station Manager, Program director and bookkeeper as admin) the rest of the 101 hours per week will be fulfilled by volunteers with some network programming.
Very few agree that 60 watts fm represents any possibility of harmful emissions. In fact the CRTC, Industry Canada, Health Canada , World Health Organization and that vast majority of informed scientists know it is safe. Plus FM has been around for decades, this is not a new technology.
Even with the world wide web, stations from all over the world do not broadcast our local content, tell our stories. We are not repeating anything, our programming week will be station produced. Further the CBC is mandated to broadcast to Canada they cannot cover our stories.
As to expensive; radio is by far the least expensive media for a community to operate. Consider the local papers’ print bill, one of the largest operating costs for a paper, that money leaves our community every week. TV is the most expensive and technically most difficult to operate. Suited to the big cement.
Resident community members have stated they would prefer no advertising or on air fund drives for it’s station. This represents a CBC like service. We propose to offer that level of service and require a CBC like funding model to capitulate. Costs to the rate payers would be in the order of a case of beer per year.
The real advantage FM radio has, is that in an emergency evacuation, radio is the only practical method to communicate to a fleeing public, real time information on hazards. Ie “South Road is on fire go North Road now.”
CKGI is supported by the Gabriola Fire Trustees, in fact, they are the largest single financial supporter to date. Our support base includes the community at large, for sure, with a vast majority from supporting events like Live At The Haven.
As to the issue of partnering with a cell service provider on a Gabriola tower the CKGI board of director implemented a two year moratorium on that decision which is fast coming up for renewal. In that time no evidence of increase in danger to the environment or possible harm from a cell tower has been presented. This seems to be a case of a very few persons being mislead for unknown reasons. That facts seem to be clear. Providing cell service under Canadian safety code 6 is safe. Further it still seems cell service adds a complication to the process by the introduction of a commercial enterprise. CKGI board of director meetings are held the first Wednesday – monthly.
Maintenance and safe operation of any tower site in Canada is highly regulated and the responsibility of the operator. Our goal is to establish a service capable of operating during an emergency or extended power outage.
As to the issue of going to Nanaimo to talk to Gabriola it seems a hardy few have the commitment to undertake the journey, but we don’t see that number of programmers growing at all. Further, there is no need, we have approval from the CRTC for the use of 98.7 fm.
Thank You.
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