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Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2025-305

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Reference: Part 1 application posted on 18 August 2025

Gatineau, 20 November 2025

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Public record: 2025-0317-7

CBH-FM Halifax – 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 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to amend the technical parameters of the English-language FM radio programming undertaking CBH-FM Halifax, Nova Scotia, which broadcasts the programming of its national, English-language network service CBC Music. Specifically, the CBC proposed to increase the maximum effective radiated power (ERP) from 92,000 to 100,000 watts, to decrease the average ERP from 92,000 to 48,195 watts, to replace the existing non-directional antenna with a directional antenna, to increase the effective height of the antenna above average terrain (EHAAT) from 217.5 to 225.1 metres, and to amend the coordinates of the transmitter. 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, the CBC indicated that the proposed amendments are necessary since CBH-FM’s antenna is timeworn and that the population served is at risk of signal loss. The Commission is satisfied that the licensee has demonstrated a technical need for the requested amendments.
  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 20 November 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 16 of the Radio Regulations, 1986 (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 CBH-FM’s authorized contours. The Commission reminds the licensee that continued compliance with section 16 of the Regulations may require that any alert broadcast decoders (e.g., ENDEC) used for the purposes of broadcasting emergency alert messages on CBH-FM, 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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