City of license Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===The border blaster=== Occasionally, a community on an international border is served using a [[border blaster|station licensed to another country]]. This may provide access to less restrictive broadcast regulation or represent a means to use [[local marketing agreement]]s or adjacent-market licenses to circumvent limits on the number of stations under common ownership. {|class="wikitable" |- !Broadcaster !City !Community of license !Comments |- ||[[WTOR]] AM 770 ||[[Toronto]] ||[[Youngstown, New York]] ||WTOR airs a multicultural format aimed primarily at listeners in the [[Greater Toronto Area]] in [[Canada]], rather than in its home state of [[New York (state)|New York]]. The station uses a highly directional transmitter array, aimed so strongly at Toronto that parts of [[Michigan]] can receive the station even though it is barely audible in [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]], just 20 miles south of its transmitter. Outside the minimum [[skeleton crew]] to fulfill the FCC-required engineer and general manager duties at its transmitter site and 'main studio' in [[Ransomville, New York]], and a majority American 'owner' to avoid [[foreign agent]] rules, all the station's staff and programming originate from the Toronto suburb of [[Mississauga]]. |- ||[[KVRI]] AM 1600 ||[[Vancouver]] ||[[Blaine, Washington]] ||A [[Punjabi language]] radio station licensed to the border town of Blaine, Washington. Owned by [[Multicultural Broadcasting]], the station has a local marketing agreement with Radio India. Studios are located in [[Surrey, British Columbia]]. |- ||[[WLYK]] FM 102.7 ||[[Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]] ||[[Cape Vincent (village), New York|Cape Vincent, New York]] ||A south-of-the-border station licensed to a tiny border village of 760 people. Owned by US-based Border International Broadcasting, but operated through a [[local marketing agreement]] from the Kingston (Williamsville) studios of Rogers-owned [[CIKR-FM]] (K-Rock 105.7). Primary audience is Kingston, Ontario, population 132,485. The use of a foreign station circumvents Canada's limit on common ownership (two stations per-band in the same language, same market) and the Canadian content requirements which would apply to a domestic station. Canada does regulate shared-service and local marketing agreements (where one company nominally owns a station and has someone else operate it) but WLYK legally is not a Canadian station. |- ||[[XETV-TDT]] 6 [[Canal 5 (Mexico)|Canal 5]] ||[[San Diego]] ||[[Tijuana]], [[Baja California]] ||Mexican-owned station, fed from a [[San Diego]]-based studio. San Diego (channels 8 and 10), Los Angeles (channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13) and Santa Barbara (channel 3) had already been allocated as early as 1952, with the remaining pair of VHF channels (6 and 12) allocated to [[Tijuana]] by [[Mexico|Mexican]] authorities. The only means to add a third [[VHF]] TV broadcaster to San Diego without unacceptable interference was therefore to enter a [[local marketing agreement]] with Mexican-owned [[Televisa]]. The station, which carried ABC from 1956 to 1973, was a charter Fox affiliate until 2008, when San Diego-licensed [[KSWB-TV]] took over the affiliation. The digital age allowed XETV to affiliate with Televisa's [[Canal 5 (Televisa Network)|Canal 5]] network using their DT2 signal, and for over a year until it was signed off in mid-July 2013, the analog signal carried Canal 5, made XETV the only North American station at the time to carry both an American-originated and Mexican-originated network on their signal. The station lost its affiliation to the CW after failing to reach an agreement with the network, which later switched to [[KFMB-TV|KFMB-DT2]] and shut down its news operation. It ended English-language programming on May 31, 2017, with Canal 5 programming moving to 6.1. |- ||[[XHAS-TDT]] 33 [[Azteca América]] ||[[San Diego]] ||[[Tijuana]], [[Baja California]] ||A [[Spanish language]] broadcaster licensed to [[Tijuana]], [[Mexico]], this station is fed from studios in San Diego, US. The same US-based facilities also formerly fed [[English language]] [[XHDTV-TV]] ([[MyNetworkTV|My]] 49, [[Tecate]], [[Baja California]]) until it itself switched to carrying [[Milenio Television]] in September 2018. The station was formerly a Telemundo affiliate until June 30, 2017, after NBC, which owns [[KNSD]] in San Diego, announced plans to create a Telemundo O&O station. Telemundo programming was later moved to the recently acquired [[KUAN-LD]] where it has been a Telemundo O&O station since 2017. |- ||[[XHITZ-FM]] 90.3 ||[[San Diego]] ||[[Tijuana]], [[Mexico]] ||Finest City Broadcasting holds a programming and [[local marketing agreement]] with Mexican XHITZ, [[XETRA-FM]] and [[XHRM-FM]], delivering programming from San Diego studios across the [[U.S.-Mexico border]]. Direct competitor [[XHMORE-FM]], also licensed to [[Tijuana]], markets itself as "Blazin' 98.9 FM, San Diego's official hip-hop station." |- ||[[XHRIO-TV]] 15 (formerly 2, and formerly [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]/[[The CW]]) ||[[Rio Grande Valley (Texas)|Rio Grande Valley]], [[Texas]] ||[[Matamoros, Tamaulipas]], [[Mexico]] ||Like the former CW affiliate [[XETV-TDT|XETV]], CW 15 Rio-Grande formerly broadcast news via a Mexican-owned station fed from a US-based studio. It is a sister station of [[KNVO (TV)|KNVO-DT3]], a subchannel of an [[Entravision]]-owned [[Spanish language]] [[Univisión]] station licensed to [[McAllen, Texas]]. It formerly broadcast [[Telemundo]], [[UPN]], [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]], and [[MundoFox]]/[[MundoMax]] programming, then shifted to [[The CW]]; in 2017 it switched to [[PSIP]] channel 15 due to Mexico's national remapping of channels, including channel 2 to the [[Las Estrellas]] network. The station left the air at the end of 2021, after letting its concession on the station expire without renewal. |- ||[[WQLR (FM)|WQLR]] 94.7 ||[[Montreal]] ||[[Chateaugay, New York]] ||The station has a [[Contemporary Christian]] format serving a larger city on the Canadian side of the border from a city on the U.S. border. Its city-grade signal reaches the southwestern parts of Greater Montreal, other parts of southwestern Quebec, and Cornwall, Ontario, along with Malone and Massena on the New York side of the border. Its class C2 signal reaches much of Montreal proper, and even some of its northern suburbs such as [[Laval, Quebec|Laval]]. It has studios located in [[Pointe-Claire, Quebec]], a southern inner suburb. |- |[[KVOS]] 12 [[Heroes & Icons|H&I]]/[[MeTV]] |[[Vancouver]] |[[Bellingham, Washington|Bellingham]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]] ||Based in Bellingham, a city that was considered far too small to support a television station on its own, for much of its history the station actively targeted the much larger metropolitan [[Vancouver]] market in Canada; in fact, when the station launched in 1953 it was the first television station available over the air in the Vancouver market at all, as television was just being introduced to Canada and [[CBUT-DT]] did not launch until about six months later.<ref name=boei>William Boei, "KVOS turned off by groups bidding for Vancouver license". ''[[Vancouver Sun]]'', September 4, 1996.</ref> Its debut broadcast on its very first day of operations was a kinescope of the [[Coronation of Elizabeth II]], an event of much greater relevance to Vancouver than to Bellingham. In later years the station launched a production office in the Vancouver suburb of [[Burnaby, British Columbia|Burnaby]], and for some time it was actually spending more money on Canadian television production than any Canadian media company but the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]].<ref name=boei/> This ended in the 1970s, with the advent of [[Canadian content]] regulations in broadcasting and a change in Canadian tax regulation by which Canadian companies could no longer use advertising purchased on non-Canadian broadcast stations as a tax deduction.<ref name=boei/> The station also later carried some programming syndicated from the Canadian [[Citytv]] network, which did not yet have a station in Vancouver.<ref>Alex Strachan, "A tale of two CITYs". ''[[Vancouver Sun]]'', June 2, 2001.</ref> Despite the tax changes, the station continued to face claims that it was "draining" advertising revenue from the Vancouver stations, most notably in the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission|CRTC]] hearings on the licensing of Vancouver's [[CIVT-DT]] in 1996;<ref>Keith Damsell, "U.S. independent KVOS TV holding its own in Vancouver". ''[[Financial Post]]'', May 1, 1997.</ref> the station finally lost much of its remaining market share in the Vancouver market following the [[2001 Vancouver TV realignment]], both being bumped from its position on the cable dial in Vancouver to make space for the new [[CIVI-DT]] and losing Citytv as a programming source due to that network's acquisition of [[CKVU-DT]].<ref>Alex Strachan, "Goodbye ckvu, hello Citytv: What's in store for Vancouver: Famous for its Speakers Corner, the people behind the newly launched network say they are after a non-traditional market". ''[[Vancouver Sun]]'', June 7, 2002.</ref> Currently it is owned by [[Weigel Broadcasting]] with Seattle station [[KFFV]], with both stations broadcasting the company's six digital broadcast networks in tandem across the Seattle market. |- ||[[KCND-TV]] 12 Ind. ||[[Winnipeg]] ||[[Pembina, North Dakota]] ||Until the 1970s, KCND was a tiny originating station in a just-as-tiny town on the Manitoba-North Dakota border. Its programming largely targeted Winnipeg, the largest community in the region. Ultimately, the [[CRTC]] gave Izzy Asper's Canwest the [[CKND-DT|CKND-TV 9 Winnipeg]] licence in return for his acquiring the non-licence assets of KCND-TV (which he can not legally operate, being Canadian) and taking it off the air. Canwest went on to operate as the [[Global Television Network]] until it was broken up in a 2010 bankruptcy, with the television stations sold to [[Shaw Media]] and the Southam newspaper chain sold to venture capitalists as [[Postmedia]]. The VHF 12 Pembina frequency is still in use as [[KNRR]], a full-power rebroadcaster of Fox affiliate [[KVRR]], but is not carried by any Winnipeg-area cable system. |} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page