CIDO-FM

CIDO-FM

City of license	Creston, British Columbia
Branding	Creston Community Radio
Frequency	97.7 MHz
Format	community radio
Power	20 watts
Owner	Creston Community Radio Society
Webcast	[1]
Website	Creston Community Radio

CIDO-FM, branded as Creston Community Radio, is a community radio station broadcasting with an effective radiated power of 20 watts in the small Southern Interior community of Creston, British Columbia, Canada. The non-commercial station, airing on 97.7 FM, is staffed entirely by members and volunteers of the Creston Community Radio Society.

History

The Society was founded in 2001 to provide locally-based broadcasting in the Creston Area, after the Creston Valley's only commercial radio station discontinued its local broadcasting. The station brands itself as "CIDO: Community First" and promotes itself as "A different view on a familiar valley."

CIDO's broadcast application to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission was approved in February 2005, allowing the society to broadcast as an English-language FM type B community radio station^[1].

The station is one of several new community radio stations launched in the Kootenay region in the 2000s. Others include CJLY-FM in Nelson, CFAD-FM in Salmo, CJHQ-FM in Nakusp and CHLI-FM in Rossland.^[2]

Programming

The station is one of the smallest community radio stations in Canada, and one of several cooperative and community radio stations operating in the Kootenay region of Interior B.C. In addition to creating its own local programming, Creston Community Radio rebroadcasts a few shows originating at CJLY-FM, in the larger community of Nelson. These include Deconstructing Dinner, a nationally syndicated spoken word program about food issues, Canadian Voices, a public affairs program which features talks by Canadian authors, academics, activists, artists, and thought-provoking citizens, and Pickin' & Grinnin, the region's bluegrass music show.

References

1. ^ CRTC Decision 2005-38
2. ^ Anne DeGrace, "Turn me on, I'm a radio", Articulate Arts, fall 2005, pp. 13-14.

External links

• Creston Community Radio
• CIDO-FM history at Canadian Communications Foundation
• Query the REC's Canadian station database for CIDO-FM