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Voices Radio (formerly Aboriginal Voices Radio) is a Canadian radio network, which primarily broadcast music programming and other content of interest to aboriginal people. As of June 2015, the network operated stations in Toronto (where its studios and offices are located), Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver. All of its stations were licensed as rebroadcasters of its flagship station, CKAV-FM in Toronto. The network's administrative office is located in Ohsweken, Ontario, on the Six Nations Indian reserve near Brantford.〔(Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2015-84 )〕 The stations' music programming consisted mainly of adult contemporary music (including both mainstream and indigenous artists), along with specialty programs focusing on aboriginal-oriented content. On June 25, 2015, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission revoked Voices Radio's broadcast licenses effective July 25, 2015, citing a long-term history of non-compliance with conditions of their licenses.〔("CRTC Revokes Licences of Aboriginal Voices Radio (AVR)" ). ''Broadcaster'', June 26, 2015.〕 The CRTC will issue a call for applications for new radio services in the markets vacated by the network, with special priority given to new First Nations services.〔 The suspension was stayed on July 23 by the Federal Court of Appeal, pending the outcome of a request for a leave to appeal the CRTC's decision.〔http://ijg.me/avr/KMBT35020150723155840.pdf〕 ==History== Aboriginal Voices Radio Network (AVRN) was founded in 1998 by a group of high-profile aboriginal Canadians, including actor Gary Farmer, playwright, novelist and author Tomson Highway, filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin and actress/producer Jennifer Podemski. Other founders and key contributors to creation of the network included project manager and training coordinator Brian Wright-McLeod, Christopher Spence and Andre Morriseau (production and programming), John Matthews and Mark MacLeod (licensing), Robert Templeton and J. Robert Wood (corporate funding), Elaine Bomberry, David Deleary, Sherman Maness, Nicole Robertson, Minnie Two Shoes and Doug Bingley (strategic advice). The network's original scope was to feature programming produced primarily by and for Aboriginal people in Canada, featuring music and personalities from around the world. AVR's first station, CFIE-FM in Toronto, was licensed by the CRTC in 2000. CFIE changed its callsign to CKAV in 2006. AVR had previously operated on 106.3 FM (JUMP FM) for a short 6 day period in 1998 during the Aboriginal Voices Festival at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. The network faced technical and logistical problems which have prevented it from launching some of its stations; the network had applied to the CRTC for extensions five or six times as of the end of 2005. Since then, however, the network had moved forward with most of the approved licenses.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2005-118 )〕 In 2009, the network surrendered its licenses for transmitters in Kitchener, Ontario (CKAV-FM-8, 102.5 MHz)〔(CRTC Decision 2009-177 )〕 and Montreal (CKAV-FM-10, 106.7 MHz).〔(CRTC Decision 2009-178 )〕 On August 20, 2009, the CRTC approved an application by Canadian Hellenic Cable Radio (CHCR) to amend the broadcasting licence for its station in Montreal at 106.3 MHz, a second adjacent frequency to CKAV-FM-10 at 106.7 FM, requiring AVR to find an alternative frequency in the event of any interference with the signal of CKAV-FM-10.〔(Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2009-508 )〕 As of January 2011, CHCR's station, CKIN-FM, has signed on at 106.3 MHz. Another broadcaster, Evanov Communications, has since filed an application for a new station at 106.7 serving the western suburb of Hudson in January 2012;〔(Canadian Radio News at Facebook, January 20, 2012. )〕〔(Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2012-29, January 20, 2012. )〕 that station, since becoming CHSV-FM, was approved in October 2012.〔(Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-576 ) English-language FM radio station in Hudson/St-Lazare, ''CRTC'', October 19, 2012〕 AVR's outlet in Ottawa, CKAV-FM-9 95.7 MHz〔(Decision CRTC 2001-627 )〕 was on air until early October 2014, but has been silent since that time. It never rerturned to air, though it was still listed on its website among the other stations broadcasting. In December 2014, AVR renamed itself to Voices Radio, as its scope expanded out of the aboriginal realm and more into music from mainstream artists, generally bent towards adult contemporary. In February 2015, Voices Radio began to air old-time radio programs from the United States, nightly from 10 pm to 12 Midnight local time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Voices Radio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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