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Canada’s first ALL BLUES radio station is in Jeopardy!! We need your Help!

On November 21 the Conservative Cabinet sent our licence back to the CRTC for reconsideration and hearing. The Government decided that the decision "derogated" from the Broadcast Act. The decision was appealed by a group that was applying for a French-language community station at the same hearing. The CRTC decided that our application was more in the public's best interest than was their application. Now the government has stepped in.

DEROGATE!!!!!

We only committed to exposing hundreds of Canadian Blues Artists that get airplay in the U.S. but not in Canada. We committed to give 3 quarters of a million dollars to Canadian Content Development, including creating a Blues music series at Canadian Music Week, supporting the Ottawa Blues Society and the Blues in Schools programs that give kids that can't afford instruments a chance to play music. Not to mention we were going to employ 20 people in Ottawa and spend over 1 million dollars in our first year of operations in the local economy.

We committed to play 40% Canadian content, 5% more than any other [commercial] station in Ottawa currently plays. But it's easy to target the only stand alone independent radio station in Ottawa.

So we need your help. We need your support, we need the support of your friends and anyone else that loves Blues music and justice.

1. Send us your email support via Facebook;

2. Send the Minister of Heritage and Official Languages a letter supporting our licence - his email is Moore.J@parl.gc.ca;

3. Send the same letter to the CRTC under "complaints" http://www.crtc.gc.ca/RapidsCCM/Register.asp?lang=E.

4. Send the same letter to the Minister for Industry - Minister.Industry@ic.gc.ca.

5. Send us the same letter via Facebook.

6. Send it to your local politicians or anyone that will listen.

7. Get all of your friends to join this group.

Thanks for all of your support; together we can come through this.....keep the faith.



Ed Torres
General Manager
SkyWords Radio
Canada's Source for Radio Content
95 Royal Crest Court Unit 5
Markham, ON L3R 9X5
Tel: 905-470-7655 ext. 120
Fax: 905-470-1655
etorres@skywords.com


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