DAWG FM LICENCE RE-ISSUED!

Canada’s first All-Blues radio station

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CRTC UPHOLDS DECISION FOR ALL BLUES RADIO - DAWG FM

Ottawa, August 11, 2009 – The CRTC today decided to uphold the licence issued to DAWG FM, Canada’s first All-Blues radio station, after a reconsideration process that has taken close to a year.

On November 21, 2008 Minister of Canadian Heritage, The Honourable James Moore, in a news release announced that Order in Council P.C. 2008-1769 returned the original licence decision to the CRTC for reconsideration sighting the consideration for the needs of Francophones in Ontario.

As part of the reconsideration the CRTC also issued a licence to a group of Franco-Ontarians that launched the appeal.

Frank Torres, President of DAWG FM, said of the decision “We are pleased with the Decision from the Commission today and look forward to continuing our work to get the station on the air as soon as possible. Ottawa is the perfect flagship market for DAWG FM's All-Blues music format. Along with Ottawa 's world class Blues festivals, DAWG FM will help make Ottawa "Chicago North" - a focal point for Canadian blues artists to get their music played on FM airwaves”.

The Torres group was instrumental in engineering a new frequency that will reach the Francophone Community of Ottawa and Gatineau . Torres says “We proposed and engineered the use of 94.5 FM at a significant expense and tested it to prove that 94.5 could provide a quality signal. We are pleased that the Commission accepted our proposed use of 94.5 MHz as a solution that allows the original licences to DAWG FM and Astral to be upheld, while allowing a third FM frequency to be used for the Francophone community”.

Torres is hopeful that this Decision paves the way for his Halifax Blues station to be approved shortly, “We have a unique application in front of the Commission for an All-Blues radio station in Halifax . The sharing of Canadian blues talent between the Maritimes and the nation’s capital is an exciting facet of our business plan, and will provide a cultural blues exchange across Canada ”.

Ed Torres and Frank Torres are the principals of DAWG FM and Skywords Radio and Media companies, a national radio broadcasting organization with offices in Halifax , Ottawa , Markham and Edmonton .

For more information, contact:

Frank Torres

(905) 470 7655 ext 100

Todd Bernard

(613) 521 7543

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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

www.bluesincanada.com


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