member listing
Stations are listed below. For a more complete history of each station, please click on the link(s) provided.
Acadia Broadcasting
www.acadiabroadcastinglimited.ca
Skilled professionals striving to be the best radio station in every market through quality local programming, achieving positive results for advertisers, rewarding employee excellence and creating long term prosperity for shareholders.
We Inform and Entertain.
- Dryden - CKDR 92.7 FM
- Fort Frances - CFOB 93.1 The Border
- Kenora - CJRL 89.5 The Lake
- Thunder Bay - CJUK 99.9 Magic
- Thunder Bay - CKTG 105.3 The Giant
Astral Media Radio Group
www.astral.com/
Astral Radio operates 83 licensed radio stations across eight Canadian provinces. Astral Radio is currently the largest broadcaster in Canada across all metrics:
- number of stations
- revenues
- number of employees
50 English-language stations provide music and information to 29 markets across Canada, including flagship stations in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Saskatchewan. In New Brunswick and in Nova Scotia, Astral Radio Atlantic operates seven FM radio stations and one AM radio station.
Astral Radio owns Montréal's Virgin Radio 96, CHOM and CJAD, as well as the NRJ, RockDétente and Boom fm networks, which represent a total of 24 FM stations across the province of Québec.
The Astral Radio Group comprises vibrant and iconic brands, highly esteemed in their respective regions. Fully committed to promoting Canadian music, Astral Radio remains an innovative leader and focuses on evolving its different brands over time. Many strategic partnerships result from this constant desire for openness and thinking creatively, notably through the positioning of world-renowned brands such as Virgin Radio and, more recently, NRJ.
Bayshore Broadcasting
www.bayshorebroadcasting.ca/
Bayshore Broadcasting Corporation, located in Owen Sound, Ontario, is an independent broadcaster operating seven radio stations in Grey, Bruce, Simcoe and Huron counties in Southern Ontario.
Brief descriptions of each station are listed below.
For a more complete history of each station, please click the link provided.
- 560 CFOS - The oldies you want, the info you need.
- Mix 1065 - More Music, More Variety
- Country 93 - Today's Best Country
- 98 The Beach - Lite hits for the lighthouse coast
- 97.7 The Beach - Lite hits for Southern Georgian Bay
- 104.9 The Beach - Lite Hits for Ontario's West Coast
- Sunshine 89.1 - Voice of the Twin Lakes
Blackburn Radio Inc.
www.blackburnradio.com/
Blackburn Radio is a Canadian radio broadcasting group, which owns several radio stations in Southwestern Ontario. Headquartered in London, Ontario, the company is owned by 2061302 Ontario Limited, which is majority owned by Cogent Investments.
Brief descriptions of each station are listed below.
For a more complete history of each station, please click the link provided.
Byrnes Media Group Inc.
www.byrnesmedia.com/
CIHR-FM is an FM radio station located in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. The station is Woodstock's only hometown radio station, with local news and information important to Oxford County. CIHR plays an adult contemporary format branded as 104.7 Heart FM and is owned by Byrnes Communications Inc.
ByrnesMedia was formed in 2000 in response to requests by several broadcasters to provide comprehensive programming services in the area of music, information, personality development/coaching, marketing and promotions. Formats the company specializes in include Adult Contemporary, Hot A/C, CHR, Rock, Classic Rock, Modern Rock, Country, Oldies and News/Talk.
Canadian Broadcast Sales
www.radiocbs.com/
Canadian Broadcast Sales is Canada's leading national radio sales company. With a 60% market share, we successfully unite advertisers with radio stations across the country.
By streamlining the radio buying process, CBS offers advertisers a simple and convenient method of purchasing airtime. Our company blueprint encourages ongoing communication. We are client responsive.
Canadian Broadcast Sales offers:
- airtime on the broadest range of stations in markets coast to coast
- media planning
- promotional request execution
- research and marketing assistance
- offices in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal & Halifax
- U.S. radio execution via Local Focus, our American affiliate
- content-development and syndication through our partnership with SparkNetworks, a division of SparkNet Communications
Canadian Broadcast Sales is owned by Corus Entertainment Inc. (50%) and Rogers Communications Inc. (50%).
CHCD Inc.
www.cd989.com/
CHCD-FM is Norfolk Country's only local radio station, broadcasting at 98.9 FM in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. The station airs an adult contemporary format branded as CD 98.9.
CJRT FM Inc.
www.jazz.fm/
JAZZ.FM91 is Canada's only not-for-profit radio station dedicated to jazz and all its communities of interest.
It began life more than 50 years ago as CJRT-FM, Ryerson's university radio station, broadcasting an eclectic mix of educational programming, classics and jazz. Then in 1996, it was transformed when the Ontario Government reduced its annual operating stipend from $1,300,000 to zero, leaving the radio station to find its niche in one of North America's most crowded radio marketplaces.
In the years since then, JAZZ.FM91 has executed a very different and expanded mission, which is to enrich the cultural, educational and community experience of our listening audience. Every week, some 320,000 listeners tune in to JAZZ.FM91's offerings which, like the station itself, are much more than jazz.
Corus Entertainment
http://www.corusent.com/home/
Corus Entertainment is one of Canada’s most successful integrated media and entertainment companies. Founded by JR Shaw, the company was built from the media assets originally owned by Shaw Communications, and spun off as a separate, publicly-traded company in 1999. Since then, the Company’s asset base has grown substantially through strategic acquisitions and a strong operating discipline. Corus Entertainment's stock is found on the TSX under the symbol CJR.B.
DAWG-FM
D.E.M. Allen & Associates
www.dema.mb.ca/
D.E.M. ALLEN & ASSOCIATES LTD. is a consulting engineering firm that specializes in the complete design and specification of Radio Frequency Transmission Systems for Broadcasting and Communication Stations operating in the Low Frequency, Medium Frequency (AM Broadcasting), High Frequency and VHF (including FM and TV Broadcasting) and UHF bands (including Television) as well as related and associated communication systems.
Dougall Media (formally known as H.F. Dougall Company Ltd.)
www.dougallmedia.com/
Dougall Media is a Canadian media company, which has several television, radio and publishing holdings in Northwestern Ontario.
Dougall Media operates the following radio stations:
- Thunder Bay: 91.5 CKPR
- Thunder Bay: ROCK 94 - 94.3 FM CJSD Inc.
- Marathon: CFNO-FM
Dougall Media operates the following television stations:
Durham Radio Inc.
ENS Media
www.wensmedia.com
tel: 705.484.9993
ENS Media Inc., located in Lagoon City, Ontario, is Canada’s largest media management and sales consulting company with more than 200 TV and Radio station clients across North America and the Caribbean. Our services include:
- Organizational motivation and performance
- Sales training
- Strategic planning
- Management mentoring and coaching
- Corporate and association conferences and workshops
- Advertiser seminars
- Project management and consulting
- Local revenue development
Wayne Ens, President
Angela Barrey, Vice-president & General Manager
Randy Redden, Vice-President, Client Services
Fanshawe College
www.fanshawec.ca/
Fanshawe College is a large college in London, Ontario, Canada. It also has campuses in Simcoe, St. Thomas, Woodstock, and Tillsonburg. There are about 15,000 full-time students and 40,000 part-time students.
Fanshawe College operates four broadcast properties in Fanshawe College's new School of Contemporary Media building, which is equipped with the latest in broadcast facilities.
The program offers practical, hands-on training with live on-air performances on the college broadcast properties:
Andrew Forsyth
Consultant
Andrew Forsyth, a veteran of Rock radio, has performed, programmed and consulted in a variety of formats in both English and French. He started in radio at CFCF/ CFQR and the legendary CHOM and started up stations across Canada including OZ-FM, CJFI, CKIK and CIKR.
He has been a broadcast consultant with SparkNet Communications since 1994, during which time he has used his expertise in regulatory affairs, music research and product design to help meet the needs of various clients. He has applied his strategic planning skills to provide solutions to a wide range of companies within the Broadcast Industry. He is a co-founder of TSC (The Shopping Channel) and the Canadian Satellite Users Association. He was also a tenured professor of Communication Arts at Seneca College at York University during the 1990s.
Andrew consults to broadcast companies across Canada. He works with Nielsen BDSradio in research and market development. He manages affiliate relations for SparkNetworks radio syndication. He has headed key research projects for SOCAN, CAB and the CRTC.
contact:
23 Pimlico Drive
Dundas ON L9H 6J6
email: ajforsyth9 [at] cogeco [dot] ca
Skype: andrewjforsyth
tel: 905.628.6470
fax: 905.628.6157
mobile: 416.230.4772
Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (FMC)
www.fmc-law.com/
FMC’s Communications Law Practice Group provides strategic advice and assistance to companies seeking to enter Canada’s telecommunications marketplace, including advice on Canada’s telecommunications foreign ownership laws, establishing a telecommunications business in Canada, and the rules relating to regulated and unregulated telecommunications markets.
FMC is one of Canada’s leading business and litigation law firms with more than 500 lawyers in six full-service offices located in the country’s key business centres. We focus on providing outstanding service and value to our clients and we strive to excel as a workplace of choice for our people. Regardless of where you choose to do business in Canada, our strong team of professionals possess knowledge and expertise on regional, national and cross-border matters. FMC’s well-earned reputation for consistently delivering the highest quality legal services and counsel to our clients is complemented by an ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusiveness to broaden our insight and perspective on our clients’ needs.
Global Television, a division of Shaw Media
www.globaltv.com/
Shaw Media is home to many of Canada's most-loved television brands. Our conventional television network, b, reaches almost 100% of Canadians and is complimented by 19 specialty networks including HGTV Canada, Food Network, History Television and Showcase. These brands inform, enlighten and entertain consumers with a roster of hit shows, including; House, Glee, Survivor, Top Chef Canada, Holmes on Homes and Entertainment Tonight Canada, plus offer viewers strong local and national news programming. Global National, our early-evening national newscast, is Canada's most-watched news program with almost a million viewers every weekday. Global also has successful local news programs in markets coast-to-coast, with 11 television stations in markets from Vancouver to the Maritimes.
Beyond the traditional airwaves, we offer Canadians access to full episodes of their preferred programs through more than 20 multi-media websites, four dedicated Video on Demand channels and a growing number of mobile applications.
Over 27 million Canadians a week count on us for their news, information and entertainment and we're engaging with them on every platform they seek.
GlobalTV.com is the online destination for Global Entertainment show information, episodes, web exclusives and more! The website is home to information on popular shows like House, Family Guy and ET Canada – from cast bios and videos to special features. Informative, interesting, fun and interactive, GlobalTV.com is a click away from providing users with an enhanced user experience!
Haliburton Broadcasting Group
www.hbgradio.com/
Haliburton Broadcasting Group is a Canadian group of FM radio stations, located primarily in smaller markets in Ontario. The company currently owns 13 English stations, branded Moose FM. Some other stations such as CFBK-FM Huntsville use other brandings. They are generally formatted with adult contemporary or hot adult contemporary music; Moose FM Timmins was a country music station before moving to adult hits.
- Bracebridge - CFBG - The Moose 99.5 FM
- Huntsville - CFBK - The Moose 105.5 FM
- Iroquois Falls - CFIF - The Moose 101.1 FM
- North Bay - CFXN - The Moose 106.3 FM
- Haliburton - CFZN - The Moose 93.5 FM
- Bancroft - CHMS - The Moose 97.7 FM
- Timmins - CHMT - The Moose 93.1 FM
- Cochrane - CHPB - The Moose 98.1 FM
- Kapuskasing - CKAP - The Moose 100.9 FM
- Hearst - CKHT - The Moose 94.5 FM
- Haldimand - CKJN - The Moose 92.9 FM
- Parry Sound - CKLP - The Moose 103.3 FM
- Elliot Lake - CKNR - The Moose 94.1 FM
Humber College of Applied Arts & Technology
www.humber.ca/
Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning is a polytechnic college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Humber offers more than 150 programs including: bachelor's degree, diploma, certificate, post-graduate certificate and apprenticeship programs, across 40 fields of study. Humber serves 22,000 full-time and 56,000 part-time learners.
Home to Humber TV, Radio Humber and all newspaper, magazine and web production. Humber is the only GTA College with a CRTC campus instructional license and fully operational radio station, Radio Humber FM 96.9.
Larche Communications Inc.
www.larchecom.com/
Larche Communications is a Canadian media company, which currently operates four radio stations in the province of Ontario:
- Midland - 104.1 CICZ-FM
- Orillia - 105.9 CICX-FM
- Owen Sound - 92.3 CJOS FM
- Sudbury - 91.7- CICS-FM
Lewis Birnberg Hanet LLP
693 Queen Street East
Toronto, ON M4M 1G6
tel: 416.865.9444
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Loyalist College (formally Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology)
www.loyalistcollege.com/
Loyalist College is an English-language community college in Belleville, Ontario, Canada.
Their campus radio station, CJLX - FM, known as 91X, was the first frequency in Canada to be granted a campus instructional license, as it is a means of training for students in the school's radio broadcasting and broadcast journalism programs. Though broadcasting from Loyalist College, the station primarily has a community oriented focus, with slightly more emphasis on the college.
Jim Macdonald
Media Job Search Canada
www.mediajobsearchcanada.com/
Media Job Search Canada is dedicated in helping 'Canadians' search for jobs Media related Companies accross Canada. You can post Employment Ads and Personal Resumes on our website.
Mohawk College
www.mohawkcollege.ca/
Mohawk College offers diverse program offerings at the apprenticeship, continuing education, diploma and collaborative degree level, allowing students to optimize their education. Cooperative education programs give students real-world experience, preparing them for successful careers in their field.
Mohawk's Media and Entertainment division includes the licensed campus FM radio station INDI 101 www.indifm.ca with a reach that includes Hamilton, Stoney Creek, Burlington, Oakville and Mississauga. The station balances a living lab experience for broadcasting students with an independent voice for the Greater Hamilton Market.
MY BROADCASTING CORPORATION
www.myfmradio.ca/
MY BROADCASTING CORPORATION operates strategically throughout Ontario with a focus on small and medium size markets. All of our markets have their own unique identities however all are highly desirable as four season recreation destinations, farming communities, popular retirement areas, and perfect towns and cities to call "home".
At MBC, we embrace the opportunity we have as a local broadcaster. Each day our teams leverage the power of local radio and our local websites to help make a difference in our communities.
Our General Managers, News Teams, On-Air Personalities and support staff take great pride in their responsiveness to the issues and events impacting the lives of our audiences.
MZ Media Inc.
www.mzmedia.com
ZoomerMedia Limited is a group of Canadian media operations controlled by Moses Znaimer. According to Znaimer, these media outlets primarily target what he calls "zoomers" or "baby boomers with zip", defined as people in their 50s, 60s and 70s who want to remain socially and culturally engaged and active.
radio:
- Cobourg: CFMX-FM - Classical 103
- Toronto: CFMZ-FM - Classical 96
- Toronto: CFZM - 740 AM - Zoomer Radio
television:
- Vancouver: CHNU-TV (Joytv 10)
- Winnipeg: CIIT-TV (Joytv 11)
- VisionTV
- One: the Body, Mind & Spirit channel
- Classical Digital - coming soon
Niagara College
www.niagaracollege.ca/
Niagara College is a College of Applied Arts and Technology within the Niagara Region of Southern Ontario. The College has four campuses:
- Welland: Welland Campus
- Niagara-on-the-Lake: Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus
- Niagara Falls: Maid of the Mist Campus (home of the Tourism Industry Development Centre)
- St. Catharines: Ontario Street Site
CRNC (90.1 The Heat) is the FM radio station for Niagara College. Located at the Welland Campus on Woodlawn Road, CRNC transmits its signal at 90.1 FM twenty-four hours daily and covers a listening area of approximately 300 square kilometres.
Pineridge Broadcasting
Pineridge Broadcasting operates the following radio stations:
CKSG-FM, branded as Star 93.3, is a Canadian radio station with a hot adult contemporary format. The station's official city of license is Cobourg, Ontario, although the station primarily targets the larger Peterborough market. CHUC-FM is an classic hits radio station broadcasting at 107.9 FM in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, branded as 107.9 FM The Breeze.
Quinte Broadcasting Co. Ltd.
www.quinteradio.com/
- Belleville/Quinte West: CJTN-FM - Rock 107
- Belleville: CJBQ 800 AM
- Belleville: CIGL-FM Mix 97.1 FM
ROCK 95
www.rock95.com/
CFJB-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 95.7 FM in Barrie, Ontario. The station broadcasts an active rock format branded as Rock 95.
Owned by Rock 95 Broadcasting (Barrie-Orillia) Ltd., the station launched in 1988. CFJB-FM can be heard as far south as Mississauga, and as far north as Parry Sound.
Rogers Broadcasting Ltd.
www.rogers.com/
Rogers Broadcasting operates 54 Canadian radio stations, (45 FM and 9 AM radio stations) including three FM stations launched in the Maritimes in October 2005. Rogers Broadcasting also operates the following television properties:
- Omni Television - which operates five multicultural television stations (two in Ontario, two in Alberta, and one in British Columbia)
- Citytv - which operates 5 stations in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver
- Rogers Sportsnet
- The Shopping Channel
- The Biography Channel Canada
- A&E Television Network
- G4 Canada
Rogers has returned to Canada's third-largest radio broadcaster behind Astral Media and Newcap Broadcasting.
Rogers also is a partner in TVtropolis and Viewers Choice. Rogers also is a non-managing partner in OLN, although on November 16, 2007, it was announced that Rogers will be acquiring 100% interest in the service from the remaining interest holders, CTVglobemedia and Comcast.
Specialty Data Systems Inc. (SDS)
www.sds.ca/
Established in 1993, SDS is Canada’s leading broadcast software provider.
Stations using SDS in Canada and the U.S. contract over a billion dollars a year in ad revenues. Our flagship product, SDS Symphony, unifies Traffic, Sales, and AR into a single software solution, eliminating data re-entry, reducing costs, and providing the unique abilities that only an advanced, unified system can offer. Everyone, across all your stations, gains access in real time to the same database (subject to the permissions that you set).
For example: Sales reps have real-time access to avails; bookings including non airtime (web, remotes, etc.) are automatically routed for approvals and one click traffic entry; credit rules are enforced in real time; Traffic revisions instantly update sales orders and avails; enterprise-wide reports are instantly updated and available any time. From Sales to Traffic to AR and Reporting, SDS Symphony is designed to streamline your enterprise.
Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology
www.senecac.on.ca/
Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology is a community college for applied arts and technology in Toronto, Ontario. Seneca College is a member of Polytechnics Canada. The College is located in the Greater Toronto Area and has eight campuses.
Starboard Communications
- Belleville: CHCQ-FM - Cool 100.1
- Belleville: CJOJ-FM - Classic Hits 95.5 FM
SUN-TV, Quebecor Media Inc.
www.quebecor.com/
www.suntv.canoe.ca/
Quebecor Media Inc. is a Canadian media company. It is a subsidiary of Quebecor Inc.
CKXT-TV (known on air as SUN TV), channel 52, is an independent broadcast television station based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and serving much of southern and eastern Ontario. The station is currently owned by Quebecor Media through its Groupe TVA unit; however, it is separate from that company's French-language TVA network.
Target Broadcast Sales Inc.
www.targetbroadcast.com/
Target Broadcast Sales Inc. is Canada's only independently owned national radio sales organization representing privately owned radio stations in all sized markets.
The Canadian Press
www.thecanadianpress.com/
The Canadian Press, known in French as La Presse Canadienne (PC), is a national news agency headquartered in Toronto. It was established in 1917 as a vehicle to permit Canadian newspapers of the day to exchange their news and information.
For most of its history, The Canadian Press has been a private, not-for-profit cooperative, owned and operated by its member newspapers. In mid-2010, however, it announced plans to become a for-profit business owned by three media companies once certain conditions are met.
Whiteoaks Communications Group Ltd.
- Oakville: CJYE Joy 1250 FM
JOY1250 is a 24 hour, 7 day a week Christian radio station broadcasting God's word to almost 6 million listeners in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond. The programming is designed to appeal to listeners of all ages, from the very young to seniors