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Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2025-184

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Reference: Part 1 application posted on 16 May 2025

Gatineau, 23 July 2025

Corus Television Limited Partnership
Vancouver, British Columbia

Public record: 2025-0135-3

CHAN-DT (Global BC) Vancouver – Technical amendments

  1. The Commission has the authority, pursuant to subsection 9(1) of the Broadcasting Act (the Act), to issue licences for the carrying on of broadcasting undertakings and to amend those licences.
  2. Consistent with this authority, the Commission approves the application by Corus Television Limited Partnership (Corus) to amend the technical parameters of the English-language conventional television programming undertaking CHAN-DT (Global BC) Vancouver, British Columbia. Specifically, Corus proposed to increase the maximum effective radiated power (ERP) from 40,000 to 125,000 watts, increase the average ERP from 22,000 to 75,000 watts, decrease the effective height of antenna above average terrain (EHAAT) from 656 to 317 metres, and amend the existing coordinates of the transmitter site. All other technical parameters will remain unchanged.
  3. The Commission did not receive any interventions in regard to this application.
  4. When a licensee files an application for technical amendments, the Commission requires the licensee to present compelling technical or economic evidence justifying the requested amendments. In this case, Corus indicated that the proposed technical amendments are necessary because of the expiring lease of the antenna’s current site. The antenna would be relocated from its current location on a Rogers tower on Mount Seymour in British Columbia to a Corus Radio-owned transmission site at a nearby location on Mount Seymour.
  5. Pursuant to subsection 22(1) of the Act, this authority will only be effective when the Department of Industry (also known as Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) notifies the Commission that its technical requirements have been met and that a broadcasting certificate will be issued.
  6. The licensee must implement the technical amendments by no later than 23 July 2027. To request an extension, the licensee must submit a written request to the Commission at least 60 days before that date, using Form 300 available on the Commission’s website.
  7. As set out in section 18 of the Television Broadcasting Regulations, 1987 (the Regulations), licensees have obligations relating to the broadcast of emergency alert messages received from the National Alert Aggregation and Dissemination System. The implementation of the technical amendments approved in this decision could result in changes to CHAN-DT (Global BC)’s authorized contours. The Commission reminds the licensee that continued compliance with section 18 of the Regulations may require that any alert broadcast decoders (e.g., ENDEC) used for the purposes of broadcasting emergency alert messages on CHAN-DT (Global BC), or on any rebroadcasting transmitters that may appear on the broadcasting licence for that station, be reprogrammed to properly account for the new authorized contours.

Secretary General

This decision is to be appended to the licence.

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