CIDO-FM, branded as Creston Community Radio, is a
community radio station broadcasting with an effective radiated power of 20 watts in the
Southern Interior
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town of
Creston,
British Columbia,
Canada. The non-commercial station, airing on 97.7 FM, is staffed entirely by members and volunteers of the Creston Community Radio Society.
History
The Society was founded in 2001 to provide locally based broadcasting in the Creston Area, after the Creston Valley's only commercial radio station discontinued its local broadcasting. The station branded itself as "977 CIDO, Creston Valley's Community Radio Station" and promoted itself as "A different view on a familiar valley."
CIDO's broadcast application to the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC; french: Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes, links=) is a public organization in Canada with mandate as a regulatory agency for broadcasti ...
was approved in February 2005, allowing the society to broadcast as an English-language FM type B community radio station.
The station was one of several new community radio stations launched in the
Kootenay region in the 2000s. Others include
CJLY-FM in
Nelson,
CFAD-FM in
Salmo,
CJHQ-FM
CJHQ-FM is a community radio station in Nakusp, British Columbia, broadcasting on 107.1 FM.
Owned by the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy, the station was licensed on April 15, 2005 and began broadcasting on September 5 of that year.
The ...
in
Nakusp
The Village of Nakusp (Sinixt ''neqo'sp'') is beside the mouth of Kuskanax Creek, on the Upper Arrow Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. Lying between the Selkirk and Monashee ranges, the village is known for its ...
and
CHLI-FM in
Rossland Rossland may refer to:
Places
*Rossland, British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
**Rossland City, provincial electoral district around Rossland, British Columbia (1903–1912)
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[Anne DeGrace]
"Turn me on, I'm a radio"
, ''Articulate Arts'', fall 2005, pp. 13-14.
References
External links
Creston Community Radio*
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Radio stations established in 2005
2005 establishments in British Columbia
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