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CJBA-FM

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Two smalltown community radio stations, which were initially granted CRTC licenses but cannot be verified as having ever actually launched -- they have no pages on Recnet, no entries in Industry Canada's Spectrum Management database, no profiles at the Canadian Communications Foundation, and no followup license renewals from the CRTC. One of the core conditions for the notability of a radio station is that it has an actual broadcast history, and radio stations are not notable if they are granted an initial construction permit but then fail to ever actually launch and have their initial licenses expire. And while both call signs do come up once each in a North American radio directory found on Google Books (either the Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook 1995 or the World Radio TV Handbook 2007), both come up solely as OCR errors for either CJBR-FM Rimouski or CKTF-FM Gatineau rather than entries for any radio stations in Aroland or Attawapiskat — and both of those sources are annual directories in which these stations would have been included at some point if they had ever actually been on the air for real. (And furthermore, both call signs are listed as available, i.e. unassigned, by Industry Canada.) So if we can't find any sources beyond their initial license approvals, then we can't properly verify that either of these stations ever actually broadcast at all — and that means we can't keep them. Bearcat (talk) 17:00, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:00, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:00, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. These stations never launched and thus are not notable. Raymie (t • c) 18:52, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]