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Haliburton Broadcasting Group

March 16, 2024

The Haliburton Broadcasting Group was a Canadian group of FM radio stations, located primarily in smaller markets in Ontario. The company was purchased by Vista Broadcast Group in 2012.[1]

Haliburton Broadcasting Group
Company typePrivate
Industryradio broadcasting
Defunct2012
Fateacquired by Vista Broadcast Group
HeadquartersToronto, Ontario, Canada
Key people
Christopher Grossman, president
OwnerBeaumaris Group (70.1%)
Slaight Communications (29.9%)
WebsiteHaliburton Broadcasting Group

History edit

The company was named for the Haliburton region in Central Ontario, where majority owner and president Christopher Grossman, a longtime radio sales manager, trainer and executive, was also a hotelier before purchasing his first radio station, CFBG in Bracebridge, in 1997.[2]

HBG expanded greatly into Northern Ontario in 1999 by acquiring several stations from the Pelmorex Radio Network. In 2004, they also acquired CKNR in Elliot Lake, a station which had also once been part of Pelmorex but was sold to North Channel Broadcasting in 1996.[3][4]

At its peak the company owned 24 English stations, mostly branded Moose FM. Some other stations such as CFBK-FM Huntsville use other brandings. They were generally formatted with adult contemporary or hot adult contemporary music; "Moose FM" Timmins was a country station before moving to adult hits. The company also formerly operated two French stations, branded as CHYC (pronounced like the French word chic), over a number of transmitters, but these were sold to Le5 Communications in 2008.

Haliburton's head office was in Toronto, Ontario, although most of its operations were based in Haliburton. Toronto-based Slaight Communications owned a significant minority interest in the group, which was not included in that company's 2007 sale of most of its broadcasting assets to Astral Media.

In 2006 and 2007, the company also expanded into Southwestern Ontario for the first time, launching a new station in Kincardine as a partial owner, and acquiring an existing station in Haldimand.[5]

On May 20, 2010, Haliburton applied to the CRTC to acquire CJJM-FM in Espanola, which was owned by Joco Communications and received approval on August 12, 2010.[6] Formerly branded as Joco Radio, the station was rebranded as Moose FM in September 2010. The company also announced subsequent deals to acquire CJJM's former sister station CFSF-FM in Sturgeon Falls,[7] as well as CJCS and CHGK-FM in Stratford; these transactions were approved by the CRTC on February 21, 2011.[8][9][10]

In late 2010, the company applied to buy two Niagara Falls radio stations, CKEY-FM and CFLZ-FM.[11][12][13] Haliburton received approval on June 8, 2011.[14]

On April 23, 2012 Vista Broadcast Group, which owns 38 radio stations in western Canada, announced a deal to acquire Haliburton Broadcasting, in cooperation with Westerkirk Capital, for $32.34 million.[15][16] The transaction was approved by the CRTC on October 19, 2012.[1]

In 2021, Grossman began a new company, Local Radio Lab, acquiring several Ontario stations owned by My Broadcasting Corporation.[17]

Strategy and competition edit

Haliburton's strategy has been based on the conversion of former AM radio stations to FM, adoption of generally more contemporary-oriented music formats, modest staffing levels, and economies of scale through shared voice tracking, production and advertising sales across the regional group.

CHNO in Sudbury was an AM oldies station when Haliburton acquired it from Pelmorex; a stipulation in the CRTC's approval of the transaction allowed it to move to FM. In 2000, it relaunched at 103.9 as a CHR/Top 40 station branded as Z103. After a short time, it was sold in 2001 to the larger Newcap Broadcasting for significantly more than it had been acquired for. The CRTC, wary of potential "license trafficking," accepted the sale on the grounds that Haliburton had been losing money with CHNO, and would reinvest the proceeds into its contemporaneous purchase of CKLP in Parry Sound.[18][19]

CHMT in Timmins launched in 2001 as an adult contemporary station as Mix 93, but soon faltered under competition from CKGB, formerly an AM country station which adopted the "EZ Rock" adult contemporary brand and moved to FM shortly after CHMT launched. CHMT flipped to country about a year later, and eventually relented as had CHNO, abandoning its own sales staff and sharing sales with the two Rogers Media stations in Timmins.[20]

On March 17, 2005, the CRTC published notice of an application Haliburton filed in 2004 to launch an FM country station in North Bay,[21] which was approved on August 11, 2005.[22] However, the North Bay station launched as an adult hits format in the summer of 2006, instead of the country music format the station originally proposed.

On April 7, 2005, they published notice of an application also filed in 2004 to launch an FM "adult contemporary rock" station in Haliburton itself.[23] This license was also subsequently granted, and the station launched in 2006.[24]

On August 4, 2010, Haliburton applied to operate a new FM radio station in Barry's Bay to operate at 106.5 MHz with an adult contemporary format. Haliburton received CRTC approval on January 12, 2011.[25]

On December 13, 2010, Haliburton applied to operate a new FM radio station in Kemptville. The new station will operate on 97.5 MHz with an adult contemporary format. Haliburton received CRTC approval on April 21, 2011.[26]

On May 19, 2011, Haliburton applied to operate a new FM radio station in Prescott. The new station would operate at 107.9 MHz with a hot adult contemporary format. Haliburton received CRTC approval on November 10, 2011.[27]

On November 9, 2011, Haliburton submitted applications to the CRTC to acquire CJFB-FM in Bolton and CFGM-FM in Caledon.[28] This was approved on March 14, 2012.[29]

Sale of holdings edit

In May 2008, Haliburton announced a deal to sell the CHYC stations to Le5 Communications, a firm owned by Sudbury lawyer Paul Lefebvre, for a purchase price of $425,000.[30] The deal was approved by the CRTC on October 31, 2008.[31]

On July 28, 2008, HBG announced that it had sold 12 stations to Newcap Broadcasting, subject to CRTC approval, for a price of $18.95 million.[32] The Kincardine and Haldimand stations were not part of the deal, and their status was not disclosed at the time of the Newcap announcement. Newcap's formal application to acquire the stations was published for public hearings by the CRTC on November 13, 2008,[33] but was subsequently withdrawn in January 2009.[34] Newcap CEO Rob Steele indicated that in light of the credit market crisis, the company did not feel that it was the right time to increase its debt load.[35]

In February 2009, Haliburton was part of a tentative deal to sell CIYN in Kincardine to My Broadcasting Corporation.[36]

On October 19, 2012, the CRTC approved Vista Broadcast Group's application for authority to acquire Haliburton's AM and FM radio stations located in Ontario.[1]

Stations edit

At the time of Haliburton's acquisition by Vista in 2012, the company owned the following stations:

Former stations edit

The following stations were owned by Haliburton in the past, but were sold to other owners prior to the company's final acquisition:

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-577. Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, October 19, 2012.
  2. ^ Decision CRTC 97-671, Acquisition of assets, CRTC, December 10, 1997
  3. ^ Decision CRTC 96-396
  4. ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2004-114
  5. ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2008-68
  6. ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2010-565
  7. ^ Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2010-935
  8. ^ "Haliburton Broadcasting Group Inc. buys three Ontario radio stations" 2010-09-22 at the Wayback Machine. Canadian Press, September 17, 2010.
  9. ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-110
  10. ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-111
  11. ^ New radio station owner thrilled with Niagara market 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine Niagara Falls Review, 2010
  12. ^ Two Niagara Falls radio stations sold 2010-12-04 at the Wayback Machine, Niagara Falls Review, 2010
  13. ^ Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2011-188-3
  14. ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-364
  15. ^ "Westerkirk Capital Acquires Vista and Haliburton Broadcast Groups" 2013-09-23 at the Wayback Machine. Broadcaster, April 26, 2012.
  16. ^ "Cartt.ca IN-DEPTH: Margot Micallef, Vista Radio CEO. From zero to 60 (stations) in nine years"
  17. ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2021-211, CIMA-FM Alliston, CJML-FM Milton and CKMO-FM Orangeville – Acquisition of assets, CRTC, June 25, 2021
  18. ^ Decision CRTC 99-404 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
  19. ^ Decision CRTC 2001-691
  20. ^ Decision CRTC 2001-48
  21. ^ Broadcasting Notice of Public Hearing CRTC 2005-3
  22. ^ CRTC Decision 2005-393
  23. ^ Broadcasting Notice of Public Hearing CRTC 2005-4
  24. ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2005-488
  25. ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-20
  26. ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-270
  27. ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-698
  28. ^ Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2011-694
  29. ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-148 CJFB-FM Bolton and CFGM-FM Caledon – Acquisition of assets, CRTC, March 14, 2012
  30. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-14. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
  31. ^ CRTC Decision 2008-296
  32. ^ [1][permanent dead link]
  33. ^ Broadcasting Notice of Public Hearing CRTC 2008-14
  34. ^ Broadcasting Notice of Public Hearing CRTC 2008-14-7
  35. ^ "Credit markets squelch $19M Newfoundland Capital radio purchase in Ontario", Canadian Press, January 19, 2009.
  36. ^ Scott Fybush, "Analog Sunset? Not in Scranton!", NorthEast Radio Watch, February 23, 2009.

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The Haliburton Broadcasting Group was a Canadian group of FM radio stations located primarily in smaller markets in Ontario The company was purchased by Vista Broadcast Group in 2012 1 Haliburton Broadcasting GroupCompany typePrivateIndustryradio broadcastingDefunct2012Fateacquired by Vista Broadcast GroupHeadquartersToronto Ontario CanadaKey peopleChristopher Grossman presidentOwnerBeaumaris Group 70 1 Slaight Communications 29 9 WebsiteHaliburton Broadcasting Group Contents 1 History 2 Strategy and competition 3 Sale of holdings 4 Stations 4 1 Former stations 5 References 6 External linksHistory editThe company was named for the Haliburton region in Central Ontario where majority owner and president Christopher Grossman a longtime radio sales manager trainer and executive was also a hotelier before purchasing his first radio station CFBG in Bracebridge in 1997 2 HBG expanded greatly into Northern Ontario in 1999 by acquiring several stations from the Pelmorex Radio Network In 2004 they also acquired CKNR in Elliot Lake a station which had also once been part of Pelmorex but was sold to North Channel Broadcasting in 1996 3 4 At its peak the company owned 24 English stations mostly branded Moose FM Some other stations such as CFBK FM Huntsville use other brandings They were generally formatted with adult contemporary or hot adult contemporary music Moose FM Timmins was a country station before moving to adult hits The company also formerly operated two French stations branded as CHYC pronounced like the French word chic over a number of transmitters but these were sold to Le5 Communications in 2008 Haliburton s head office was in Toronto Ontario although most of its operations were based in Haliburton Toronto based Slaight Communications owned a significant minority interest in the group which was not included in that company s 2007 sale of most of its broadcasting assets to Astral Media In 2006 and 2007 the company also expanded into Southwestern Ontario for the first time launching a new station in Kincardine as a partial owner and acquiring an existing station in Haldimand 5 On May 20 2010 Haliburton applied to the CRTC to acquire CJJM FM in Espanola which was owned by Joco Communications and received approval on August 12 2010 6 Formerly branded as Joco Radio the station was rebranded as Moose FM in September 2010 The company also announced subsequent deals to acquire CJJM s former sister station CFSF FM in Sturgeon Falls 7 as well as CJCS and CHGK FM in Stratford these transactions were approved by the CRTC on February 21 2011 8 9 10 In late 2010 the company applied to buy two Niagara Falls radio stations CKEY FM and CFLZ FM 11 12 13 Haliburton received approval on June 8 2011 14 On April 23 2012 Vista Broadcast Group which owns 38 radio stations in western Canada announced a deal to acquire Haliburton Broadcasting in cooperation with Westerkirk Capital for 32 34 million 15 16 The transaction was approved by the CRTC on October 19 2012 1 In 2021 Grossman began a new company Local Radio Lab acquiring several Ontario stations owned by My Broadcasting Corporation 17 Strategy and competition editHaliburton s strategy has been based on the conversion of former AM radio stations to FM adoption of generally more contemporary oriented music formats modest staffing levels and economies of scale through shared voice tracking production and advertising sales across the regional group CHNO in Sudbury was an AM oldies station when Haliburton acquired it from Pelmorex a stipulation in the CRTC s approval of the transaction allowed it to move to FM In 2000 it relaunched at 103 9 as a CHR Top 40 station branded as Z103 After a short time it was sold in 2001 to the larger Newcap Broadcasting for significantly more than it had been acquired for The CRTC wary of potential license trafficking accepted the sale on the grounds that Haliburton had been losing money with CHNO and would reinvest the proceeds into its contemporaneous purchase of CKLP in Parry Sound 18 19 CHMT in Timmins launched in 2001 as an adult contemporary station as Mix 93 but soon faltered under competition from CKGB formerly an AM country station which adopted the EZ Rock adult contemporary brand and moved to FM shortly after CHMT launched CHMT flipped to country about a year later and eventually relented as had CHNO abandoning its own sales staff and sharing sales with the two Rogers Media stations in Timmins 20 On March 17 2005 the CRTC published notice of an application Haliburton filed in 2004 to launch an FM country station in North Bay 21 which was approved on August 11 2005 22 However the North Bay station launched as an adult hits format in the summer of 2006 instead of the country music format the station originally proposed On April 7 2005 they published notice of an application also filed in 2004 to launch an FM adult contemporary rock station in Haliburton itself 23 This license was also subsequently granted and the station launched in 2006 24 On August 4 2010 Haliburton applied to operate a new FM radio station in Barry s Bay to operate at 106 5 MHz with an adult contemporary format Haliburton received CRTC approval on January 12 2011 25 On December 13 2010 Haliburton applied to operate a new FM radio station in Kemptville The new station will operate on 97 5 MHz with an adult contemporary format Haliburton received CRTC approval on April 21 2011 26 On May 19 2011 Haliburton applied to operate a new FM radio station in Prescott The new station would operate at 107 9 MHz with a hot adult contemporary format Haliburton received CRTC approval on November 10 2011 27 On November 9 2011 Haliburton submitted applications to the CRTC to acquire CJFB FM in Bolton and CFGM FM in Caledon 28 This was approved on March 14 2012 29 Sale of holdings editIn May 2008 Haliburton announced a deal to sell the CHYC stations to Le5 Communications a firm owned by Sudbury lawyer Paul Lefebvre for a purchase price of 425 000 30 The deal was approved by the CRTC on October 31 2008 31 On July 28 2008 HBG announced that it had sold 12 stations to Newcap Broadcasting subject to CRTC approval for a price of 18 95 million 32 The Kincardine and Haldimand stations were not part of the deal and their status was not disclosed at the time of the Newcap announcement Newcap s formal application to acquire the stations was published for public hearings by the CRTC on November 13 2008 33 but was subsequently withdrawn in January 2009 34 Newcap CEO Rob Steele indicated that in light of the credit market crisis the company did not feel that it was the right time to increase its debt load 35 In February 2009 Haliburton was part of a tentative deal to sell CIYN in Kincardine to My Broadcasting Corporation 36 On October 19 2012 the CRTC approved Vista Broadcast Group s application for authority to acquire Haliburton s AM and FM radio stations located in Ontario 1 Stations editAt the time of Haliburton s acquisition by Vista in 2012 the company owned the following stations Bancroft CHMS FM Barry s Bay CHBY FM Bolton CJFB FM Bracebridge CFBG FM Caledon CFGM FM Cochrane CHPB FM Elliot Lake CKNR FM Espanola CJJM FM Fort Erie CFLZ FM Haldimand CKJN FM Haliburton CFZN FM Huntsville CFBK FM Iroquois Falls CFIF FM Kapuskasing CKAP FM Kemptville CKVV FM Niagara Falls CJED FM North Bay CFXN FM Parry Sound CKLP FM Prescott CKPP FM Stratford CJCS FM CHGK FM Sturgeon Falls CFSF FM Timmins CHMT FMFormer stations edit The following stations were owned by Haliburton in the past but were sold to other owners prior to the company s final acquisition Kincardine CIYN FM sold to My Broadcasting Corporation in 2009 Sudbury CHNO FM sold to Newcap Broadcasting in 2001 CHYC FM sold to Le5 Communications in 2008 Timmins CHYK FM sold to Le5 Communications in 2008 References edit a b c Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012 577 Canadian Radio television and Telecommunications Commission October 19 2012 Decision CRTC 97 671 Acquisition of assets CRTC December 10 1997 Decision CRTC 96 396 Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2004 114 Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2008 68 Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2010 565 Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2010 935 Haliburton Broadcasting Group Inc buys three Ontario radio stations Archived 2010 09 22 at the Wayback Machine Canadian Press September 17 2010 Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011 110 Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011 111 New radio station owner thrilled with Niagara market Archived 2011 07 06 at the Wayback Machine Niagara Falls Review 2010 Two Niagara Falls radio stations sold Archived 2010 12 04 at the Wayback Machine Niagara Falls Review 2010 Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2011 188 3 Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011 364 Westerkirk Capital Acquires Vista and Haliburton Broadcast Groups Archived 2013 09 23 at the Wayback Machine Broadcaster April 26 2012 Cartt ca IN DEPTH Margot Micallef Vista Radio CEO From zero to 60 stations in nine years Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2021 211 CIMA FM Alliston CJML FM Milton and CKMO FM Orangeville Acquisition of assets CRTC June 25 2021 Decision CRTC 99 404 Archived 2011 06 07 at the Wayback Machine Decision CRTC 2001 691 Decision CRTC 2001 48 Broadcasting Notice of Public Hearing CRTC 2005 3 CRTC Decision 2005 393 Broadcasting Notice of Public Hearing CRTC 2005 4 Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2005 488 Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011 20 Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011 270 Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011 698 Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2011 694 Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012 148 CJFB FM Bolton and CFGM FM Caledon Acquisition of assets CRTC March 14 2012 Broadcast Dialogue PDF Archived from the original PDF on 2015 02 14 Retrieved 2008 08 08 CRTC Decision 2008 296 1 permanent dead link Broadcasting Notice of Public Hearing CRTC 2008 14 Broadcasting Notice of Public Hearing CRTC 2008 14 7 Credit markets squelch 19M Newfoundland Capital radio purchase in Ontario Canadian Press January 19 2009 Scott Fybush Analog Sunset Not in Scranton NorthEast Radio Watch February 23 2009 External links editHaliburton Broadcasting Group archived website Moose FM Radio Network History of Haliburton Broadcasting Group Inc Canadian Communications Foundation Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Haliburton Broadcasting Group amp oldid 1205162532, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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