Vista Radio
Vista Radio Ltd. (also formerly known as Vista Broadcast Group) is a Canadian radio broadcasting company. The company only owned stations in British Columbia until 2007, when it expanded outside the province by acquiring an existing station in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and launching a new one in Grande Prairie, Alberta.[1] It has since also expanded into Ontario, with the acquisition of Haliburton Broadcasting Group in 2012.
private | |
Industry | radio broadcasting |
Owner | Westerkirk Capital |
Website | http://www.vistaradio.ca |
Vista Radio was founded by Paul Mann, Jason Mann, Margot Micallef, Barb Fairclough and Bryan Edwards in 2004.[2]
On April 23, 2012, Vista announced a deal to acquire Haliburton Broadcasting Group, a broadcast group with 24 stations in small or mid-sized markets in Ontario, in cooperation with Westerkirk Capital.[3] The deal was approved by the CRTC on October 19, 2012.[4]
Stations
Alberta
- Bonnyville - CFNA-FM[5]
- Grande Prairie - CFRI-FM
- Lloydminster - CKLM-FM[5]
- Lethbridge - CJOC-FM, CKBD-FM
- Medicine Hat - CJLT-FM
British Columbia
- 100 Mile House - CKBX
- Burns Lake - CFLD
- Campbell River - CIQC-FM
- Castlegar - CKQR-FM
- Courtenay - CFCP-FM
- Cranbrook - CFSM-FM
- Creston - CKCV-FM
- Duncan - CJSU-FM
- Gibsons - CKAY-FM
- Grand Forks - CKGF-2-FM
- Nelson - CHNV-FM
- Port Hardy - CFNI
- Powell River - CFPW-FM
- Prince George - CIRX-FM, CJCI-FM
- Quesnel - CKCQ-FM
- Smithers - CFBV
- Vanderhoof - CIRX-FM-1
- Williams Lake - CKWL, CFFM-FM
Northwest Territories
Ontario
- Bancroft - CHMS-FM
- Barry's Bay - CHBY-FM
- Bolton - CJFB-FM
- Bracebridge - CFBG-FM
- Caledon - CFGM-FM
- Cochrane - CHPB-FM
- Elliot Lake - CKNR-FM
- Espanola - CJJM-FM
- Haliburton - CFZN-FM
- Huntsville - CFBK-FM
- Iroquois Falls - CFIF-FM
- Kapuskasing - CKAP-FM
- Kemptville - CKVV-FM
- North Bay - CFXN-FM
- Parry Sound - CKLP-FM
- Prescott - CKPP-FM
- Stratford - CJCS-FM, CHGK-FM
- Sturgeon Falls - CFSF-FM
- Timmins - CHMT-FM
Former stations
- Kelowna, British Columbia - CJUI (sold to Avenue Radio Ltd. in October 2017)[7][8]
- Vanderhoof, British Columbia - CIVH (discontinued March 2018 after transmitter collapse. Programming moved to CIRX-FM-1.)
- Haldimand, Ontario - CKJN-FM (sold to Durham Radio in 2016)[9]
- Niagara Falls, Ontario - CFLZ-FM, CJED-FM (sold to Byrnes Communications in January 2018)
References
- "Vista Radio: The Big Fish in the Small Pond". Broadcast Dialogue
- "A small-town start tunes the dial on the big time", The Globe and Mail, March 15, 2008.
- "Westerkirk Capital Acquires Vista and Haliburton Broadcast Groups". Broadcaster, April 26, 2012.
- Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-577. Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, October 19, 2012.
- CRTC Decision 2008-323
- Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2020-165, English-language FM radio station in North Bay, CRTC, May 25, 2020
- "CJUI-FM Kelowna – Acquisition of assets". CRTC. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
- "Castanet buys Juice FM". Castanet. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
- "Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2016-258". Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. 8 July 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.