{"id":57051,"date":"2023-06-15T06:41:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T10:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=57051"},"modified":"2023-06-15T06:41:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T10:41:34","slug":"bell-media-closures-and-shortwave-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/bell-media-closures-and-shortwave-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell Media Closures and Shortwave Impact?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Tracy Wood, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas<\/p>\n

You might have seen the news that Bell Media (Canada) is shutting down six major market AM stations and selling off some others<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This has a shortwave angle… One station shuttered is “Funny 1060” CKMX in Calgary. This station has the 100-watt shortwave relay CFVP on 6030 kHz.<\/p>\n

A check of a Montana–based KiwiSDR indeed shows CFVP is carrying CKMX’s loop ID announcing the immediate end of programming on CKMX.<\/p>\n

Who will step in to buy CKMX and save CFVP?<\/p>\n

Great question, Tracy. This station has been on the air since 1922, originally as CFCN. These days, it has a pretty unique format and it would be a shame for it to disappear entirely. There are also so very few low-power shortwave relays left in Canada.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

We will follow this story. Readers, we welcome any news tips about the future of CKMX and CFVP.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Tracy Wood, who writes: Thomas You might have seen the news that Bell Media (Canada) is shutting down six major market AM stations and selling off some others. This has a shortwave angle… One station shuttered is “Funny 1060” CKMX in Calgary. This station has the 100-watt shortwave relay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,3,43],"tags":[10244,9329,9330,7394],"class_list":["post-57051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bell-media","tag-cfvp","tag-ckmx","tag-tracy-wood-k7uo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-eQb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49325,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/guest-post-great-news-from-cfvp-alberta\/","url_meta":{"origin":57051,"position":0},"title":"Guest Post: Great news from CFVP Alberta!","author":"Thomas","date":"June 22, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following guest post: Big news in these days of declined shortwave by Dan Robinson It is rare -- no super rare -- that we get any good news these days about shortwave broadcasting. 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