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Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2025-233

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Reference: Part 1 application posted on 11 June 2025

Gatineau, 9 September 2025

Rogers Media Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia

Public record: 2025-0243-4

CHNM-DT (OMNI 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 Rogers Media Inc. (Rogers) to amend the technical parameters of the ethnic and third-language television programming undertaking CHNM-DT (OMNI BC) Vancouver, British Columbia. Specifically, Rogers proposed to increase the average effective radiated power (ERP) from 4,300 to 4,668 watts, to decrease the effective height of the antenna above average terrain (EHAAT) from 670 to 623 metres, to amend the coordinates of the transmitter, and to relocate the transmitter antenna. All other technical parameters will remain unchanged.
  3. The Commission did not receive any interventions in regard to this application.
  4. Rogers noted that the proposed technical amendments are necessary because of rising lease costs at the current site and that the proposed new transmission site would not result in any meaningful changes in population coverage. The antenna would be relocated from a Rogers-owned tower on leased land at the Mount Seymour transmission site in Vancouver to a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation-owned tower 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 9 September 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 CHNM-DT (OMNI 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 CHNM-DT (OMNI 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.
  8. This decision is to be appended to the licence.

Secretary General

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