Licencing
CHLY follows the Standard Conditions of License for campus-community radio stations as a requirement of its licensing.
The CRTC and Innovation Canada license the Radio Malaspina Society to operate CHLY-FM as a campus subtype (campus-community) radio station operating at 101.7 MHz with 3000 Watts ERP from a tower site located on Cottle Hill in Nanaimo, British Columbia. More about our station can be found here.
History of licencing
2001 Licence approval
https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2001/DB2001-319.htm
“Promise to Perform”
In our initial application to the CRTC, a “Promise to Perform” document was submitted as part of our application. This document was no longer necessary as the requirement for a Promise to Perform was dropped by the CRTC with the adoption of its then-new campus radio policy (CRTC 2000-12). Under the new policy, Promises to Perform were replaced with “Standard Conditions of Licence”, of which we were subsequently licenced. At the time of our licence approval in 2001, this document was noted by the CRTC in our approved application, but it was no longer considered a binding document.
2007 Licence renewal
https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2007/db2007-292.htm
2014 Licence renewal
https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2014/2014-276.htm
2021 Administrative renewal
Our station was Administratively Renewed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2023 Simplified renewal
2023-03-16: CHLY-FM C/C License has been renewed by the CRTC from 2023-09-01 to 2030-08-31. Inteventions were submitted in support of CHLY-FM by Barry Rooke Executive Director of the NCRA.
Below is our Simplified License Renewal application with the CRTC (The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CRTC created a Simplified Renewal process for stations that had been administratively renewed for the last two years (of which CHLY-FM was twice administratively renewed).
CHLY-FM has been licensed since 2001 as a C/C (Campus-Community) Radio Station and this will be our third renewal since our first application.