Puget Sound Radio just received this tip that Rogers has sold one of their Edmonton properties, World FM 101.7. From what we understand, the new owners are from British Columbia, once approved by the CRTC, the Ethnic radio station will be sold for $6.7 Million to Akash Broadcasting Inc.
CRTC Hearing link below…
https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2020/2020-262.htm#bm3
History of CKER, courtesy of Wikipedia
CKER-FM first hit the airwaves on November 1, 1980 on the AM dial as Edmonton’s first and only multilingual station. It was owned by O.K. Radio Group which is headed up by Roger Charest and Stu Morton. The station operated at 1480 AM with a broadcasting power of 10,000 watts.
In 1982 O.K. Radio Group spun off CKER into a separate company- CKER Radio Ltd., a company that was headed up by Roger Charest as well as other investors.
In 1994, CKER was granted approval by the CRTC [1] to move to the FM band at 101.9 MHz with an ERP of 64,000 watts, on a frequency previously used by CKO from 1978 to 1989. This would later be increased to 100,000 watts. On January 18, 2006, CKER received approval to move from 101.9 to 101.7 MHz in an effort to alleviate interference that was being caused to other stations.[2]
On November 29, 2006, CKER-FM was sold to Rogers Communications who also purchased other stations owned by O.K. Radio Group.[3] Rogers pledged to keep the station the same, with a multilingual format and the current branding of World FM.
On CRTC site the new owners are the Connect 91.5 FM owned by Akash Broadcasting.