Hopes to attract more listeners

AIO - The Terrace Standard, Wechesday, March 11, 1998

Station gets new signal approval

IT TOOK moxths, but CFNR is once again carrying a
Vancouver radio signal — this time with the blessing of
the body that controls its operations.

CFNR, which broadcasis from Kitsclas on Queensway lo
northern Brilish Columbia on FM via satellite, began car-
rying CFMI last fall.

CFNR, owned by Northern Native Broadcasting Socicty,
produces its own programming between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.

It began carrying CFMI, which plays rock classics, from
6 p.m, until 6 a.m, to replace programmiong from a coun-
try and western station in Alberta.

Station manager Clarence Martin at the time said the
shift to the old time rock format of CFMI was intended to
broaden out CFNR’s audience appeal.

Slasher
sought

A SECURITY guard at
Overwaitea Foods was
slashed last weekend when
he attempted to stop a
suspected shoplifter.

When approached, the
suspect pulled something
from his pocket and said it
was a knife. He then took a
swipe at the employee, who
received a scratch to his left
hand. The employee did not
see the weapon.

The suspect is described
as a white male, about
5°10” tall and 180 lbs with
short brown hair. He should
be easy to spot as he had
two black eyes, several
bruises and scratches on his
_ Face and a nose that ap-
peared to be broken or out
of joint.

Police are asking for any-
one who knows this man to
cali Terrace RCMP.

Behind
closed

doors

THE TERRACE | school
board plans to hold a special
mecting to look at its ad-"
visory committee structure.
The meeting is closed to
the public and other people

such as teachers and
parents,
Board chair Roger Leclerc

said trusiees want to look at
the role cach committee
\Plays,..such as operations.
"The meeting is closed so
itrlstees can speak frecly, he .
said.

But he added that the
board doesn’t intend to get
rid of its advisory com-
Mitiees. Those are com-
mittees such as the Com-
munity Advisory Com-
mitiee, and the District Ad-
visory Committee, (DAC)
which reprsents all the com-

munities. However, he
didn’t say that the DAC
would survive the review
process no matter what, ad-
ding that any changes are up
to the board as a whole.

Principals

swap jobs

STUDENTS WILL see
some new faces at the belm
when they go back to school
this fall.

Fred Woods, now second-
in-command at Skeena SJr.
Secondary, takes the job of
principal at Thornhill Jr.
Secondary. That school’s
current head, Rick Olson, is
retiring at the end of June,

Barry Eyjolfson has been
given the post as principal
of Thornhill Primary
School. He replaces another
oulgoing principal, Jim
Steele. Eyjolfson was the
head of Thornhill
Elementary School.

And Dave Crawley moves
from the top job at Copoper
Mt. Elementary, where he’s
served for 13 years, to
Thornhill Elementary
School.

No one has yet filled his
vacant slot, or the role of
vice-principal at Skeena Jr.
Secondary.

Sharing’s
better

AN AGREEMENT the old
Terrace school district had
with Northwest Community
College to share resources
has been extended to the
whole new district,

That means that Kitimat
too will work with NWCC
to. share technology,
facilities, child care and
more,

The college has already
expressed interest in using
Mount Elizabeth
Secondary’s lab and shop

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But the signal shift came without the direct permission of
the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications
Commission (CRTC) and a complaiat from competitor
Skeena Broadcasters caused CFNR to yank the signal.

It then applied to the CRTC for permission to carry
CFMI as a wrap around signal and listeners responded
with petitions and letters of support.

Finally, late last month, CFNR got a letter from the
CRTC saying it could do what it wanted.

Tronically, while CFNR has asked for permission to carry
CFMI, the CRTC said it didn’t have to give approval.

That’s because CFNR’s licence already allows it to carry
signals such as CFMI.

The necessary technical changes were made last week
and (he station is now carrying CFMI.

Although it can’t replace CFMI commercials with its
awn, CFNR manager Clarence Martin is happy with what
has happened.

“This is nothing against aur competition, but there’s
plenty of room for us,’” he said.

When first formed in the 1980s, CFNR received govern-
ment grants. But those have now been reduced and the sta-
tion is increasingly relying on commercial sales.

Martin said adding CFMI will help position CFNR as a
station to attract advertisers and additional income.

It broadcasts in Terrace at 92.1 FM.

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