An interesting discussion at today's #CRTC hearing on the difficulties of small independent radio stations to conform to conditions of licence. Most stations use WinMedia software to manage their logs, which requires programming in the requirements. ...
One big issue is adding and categorizing songs. Often they come from hosts' personal collections or maybe they're a local artist, and someone has to add them to a database. And it's not unusual for the #CRTC review to recategorize songs and find a licence quota violation.
Some requirements can't even be coded in WinMedia, requiring painstaking reviews by hand from managers of volunteer-driven radio stations where the main concern is keeping it on the air more than filing regulatory forms.
And the #CRTC provides little assistance here. You're either in compliance or not. There's no warning system or informal compliance review. And by the time you learn you failed to comply, it's months or even years after the fact.
CKMN-FM in Rimouski said it took 120 hours to review its logs. Three people calculated the number of songs that aired, and got three different results.
CKMN-FM asks the #CRTC to consider licence compliance like police officers deal with speeding: let it go when it’s only slightly over the limit.
CRTC response: But if it’s the 10th time they did it and there was a court order requiring they not speed?
CRTC response: But if it’s the 10th time they did it and there was a court order requiring they not speed?
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