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CFSI FM Salt Spring Radio has been SOLD

February 8, 2013 By Scott Simmons 3 Comments

Updated Feb 13, 2012

CFSI has been sold to a Surrey BC Company.  Satnam Media Group (BC) Ltd. (Satnam BC).

Attached is a letter that came from the CRTC regarding the sale. CRTC CFSI Letter

Some of the programmers meet with Mr Sukhdev S. Dhillon owner of Satnam Media group on Feb 11, 2013 at the Harbour House hotel on Salt Spring.  The meeting went well.  Mr Dhillon said he hopes to build the station and retain the community feel of the station.

About 30 programmers meet up on Salt Spring on the night of Feb 12, 2013. It seemed to be unanimous that we are all looking forward to working with Mr. Dhillon. It seems as if our goals are the same; building up CFSI and making it a fantastic local Salt Spring community station. It was a consensus that the programmers will be warmly welcoming Mr. Dhillon to the island. There will be an official welcome letter going to Mr Dhillon. I personally want to congratulate him on his purchase of CFSI.

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Here is another link with more info about the sale.

Link to the Driftwood article about the sale.  

Article in the Times Colonist newspaper about the sale of CFSI Saltspring radio station..

 

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Found this on line from the Globe and Mail It will give readers a historic snap shot of CFSI fm.

COMMUNITY BROADCASTING

Saltspring hippies put good vibrations on air
Eclectic mix of groups vie for slots as island residents win
approval from federal regulator for radio station

SHANNON MONEO

Special to The Globe and Mail

November 9, 2007

VICTORIA — Saltspring Island’s eclectic mix of 11,000 residents should be tuning into the island’s first radio station by May, and already they’re clamouring for air time.

“I have a woman who wants to do a Scrabble show. She wants us to broadcast the game while they’re playing,” said Richard Moses, who with fellow Saltspring resident Gary Brooks got federal approval for 107.9 CFSI-FM. “We’re going to have everything under the sun.”

It’s no wonder.

Saltspring is a fabled place where middle-aged men and women with flowing hair still wear tie-dye shirts and hitchhike. Magic mushrooms and dozens of heritage apple types are harvested. Soap-makers and organic cheese-makers sell their wares at the funky and famed Saturday market. And pot growing isn’t panned.

If a Saltspringer wants to air marijuana gardening tips, that will be fine with 74-year-old Mr. Moses.

“We want the station to grow out of the island,” he said, tongue firmly in cheek, about a place still painted as a hippie haven. “It [hippie] is a bit of a dated term, but the spirit is there.”

As station program director, Mr. Moses wants organic farmers and alternative health practitioners to pile into the as-yet non-existent studio to broadcast informational shows.

Many of Saltspring’s special-interest groups, numbering some 150, have indicated they want air time, said Mr. Moses, who spent two decades working at community radio stations in Toronto and Edmonton after moving from New York in 1971.

Listeners can also expect lots of salty dialogue during open-line shows.

Folk singer Valdy told Mr. Brooks that Saltspring is an argument surrounded by water. “There’s a lot of hot-button issues we can talk about,” said Mr. Brooks, a semi-retired entrepreneur who came to Saltspring from New Mexico five years ago and couldn’t believe the island didn’t have a radio station.

Initially, the station will air about 16 hours a day and eventually work up to 20 hours, from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m., Mr. Moses said.

Toned-down, spoken-word ads read by retired radio announcers or actors will replace hyped-up jingles. “Saltspring has an amazing amount of people who worked in radio. It’s a ridiculously high percentage,” Mr. Brooks said.

As promised in the application to the CRTC, CFSI won’t play Top 40 music. Classical, jazz, blues and folk will be the core music programming. The station also wants to feature new artists and has promised to eventually fill 50 per cent of the music slot with Canadian content. “It seems like every second person here has musical talent,” Mr. Brooks said.

Mr. Moses has amassed several dozen CDs made by Saltspring musicians.

Randy Bachman, former rock star and now CBC radio host, might be persuaded to move his show closer to home. Artist Robert Bateman would make an eloquent radio voice.

CFSI will also spread the word when such emergencies as fires occur, a service that has been dangerously lacking on the 185-square-kilometre island.

High-school students will be invited to produce shows about issues they find relevant, said Mr. Brooks, 56, who has two children, 11 and 14.

Born and raised in New York, Mr. Brooks was known as the Chile Guy when he ran a successful chili pepper business out of New Mexico and Mexico. In financing the station, he put up at least $100,000 to get it off the ground and on the air, and at least another $100,000 to run it for one year.

The partners hope that advertising revenue and volunteer staff will help CFSI break even. They conservatively predict revenues of $130,000 in the first year. “This is a labour of love,” Mr. Brooks said.

But the new radio station has already brought some static.

About 70 people signed a letter saying they don’t want CFSI’s proposed 33-metre tower and 1,000-watt transmitter on Mount Belcher, said Rick Laing, a building contractor who has lived on the mountain for 25 years.

While he’s not against the radio station, there are concerns that the tower is unsightly, will lower property values in the rural neighbourhood and may cause health problems.

“It’s not scientifically proven, but it [a tower] can be dangerous to birds’ health and disorienting to animals,” Mr. Laing said.

The municipal government must give its blessing to the tower site, Mr. Brooks said, and he expects it will, since Industry Canada has already approved it. There are at least two other potential tower sites in the same geographical position that could be used, Mr. Moses added.

As it happened, after residents spent about 15 years trying to bring a station to Saltspring, a competing bid was made in January, two months before CFSI’s.

But the CRTC considered the first bid’s business plan to be flawed, while CFSI had a “viable” plan and the “financial capacity to fulfill its plan.”

In October, the CRTC awarded a seven-year licence to CFSI.

“It’s going to be full-tilt boogie,” Mr. Brooks predicted.

 

Update April 2013 from Radio West

CFSI 102.1/107.9 is now branding itself as “Green FM 102.1 + 107.9″ and has a new website and logo to match:

GREEN FM WEBSITE

Now under ownership by Satnam Media, ‘Green FM’ still operates as Salt Spring’s community station with a continued musical emphasis on Category #3 music – local Salt Spring artists, world-beat, folk, jazz, blues & classical. Many shows by volunteer programmers are now moving to evening and weekend slots, but virtually all shows remain on air (including my own). New owner Sukhev “Dave” Dhillon has kept Dave Gordon on as station manager, Bobby Magee now handles sales, & Rob Pingle remains as Music Director and webmaster. The mood at the station amongst management, programmers and advertisers is an upbeat, positive one as the station rebuilds from all the damage done by the previous owner and moves forward daring to go where few radio stations dare tread!!

(thanks to Sky Valley Radio for the above)

 

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Comments

  1. Chris Anderson says

    February 13, 2013 at 12:48 am

    I predicted that this would happen with “our” supposed “community” station. I warned back when this was being considered, that building CFSI into a business and selling it to make money to allow a much bigger and more dangerous – via greater EM radiation – radio station could be the end result, which now is proven to be the case.
    This type of FM electomagnetic pollution was classified in 2011 as a carcinogen, on par with lead, DDT, HIV, car exhaust etc. I recommend that citizens work to oppose this secretive betrayal of the trust of the community, and urge that any expansion of the radiated power from this licensed location be opposed with vigour.

    I believe that this was the plan all along. This sale to a big, indifferent company – no surprise at all, to those of us familiar with the “vertical real estate” business, whereby if you build it (a licensed broadcast facility), they will come (that is, more amd more transmitters. Before going on air, and while the proponents were charming the public, and issuing glowing statements about what a gift to Salt Spring life the station would be, I had warned the Island Trust and had stated my reservations publiclly to the effect that this could turn into a much bigger and more dangerous project. The type of electromagnetic pollution we now face from a much more powerful, more commercial FM station, will now cause much more harm to people and Nature at large, than the lower-power station that was originally approved for broadcast. Please stay tuned to this issue, and help prevent what looks to be a very negative outcome as a direct result of our naive belief that this would remain a low-power, “community” station. Let’s find a way to reverse this unfortunate, predictable outcome.

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  2. Norbert Schlenker says

    February 17, 2013 at 7:34 pm

    Chris’s message raises some interesting questions but I don’t see much evidence. Has a power increase been applied for? Even if it were, would the CRTC allow anything that might be dangerous to health? Not “dangerous” per Chris’s usual handwaving, but “dangerous” per objective scientific standards.

    Wake me when CFSI’s programming turns entirely to bhangra and/or there’s a glow at night up on Mt. Belcher. Until then, zzzzzz.

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  3. Scott says

    February 17, 2013 at 9:08 pm

    In Wetaskawin the same company has an application in to the CRTC to go from the current 1700 watts to 50,000 watts. The application was rejected on the first round but I’m sure they will re submit it. In (this is from memory) 2000 that station in Wetaskawin was 50 watts.
    CFSI can probably boost up to what was the originally intended wattage. It was turned down to the current 130 but I think it could go back up to the 360 watt range. Would have to ask Mike Cherry he is the expert. It would not improve our coverage on Salt Spring. To get better coverage on Salt Spring the transmitter should have been installed in Nanaimo and run at 600watts. I’m not an expert but have been told this is the preferred method of fm to broadcast from around 20km or so. This is why CFSI get good coverage into Richmond and Delta at 130watts.

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