type private industry radio broadcasting fate acquired by vista broadcast group defunct 2012 headquarters toronto ontario canada key people christopher grossman president owner beaumaris group 70.1 % slaight communications 29.9 % website haliburton broadcasting group 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 contents 1 history 2 strategy and competition 3 sale of holdings 4 stations 4.1 former stations 5 references 6 external links 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 music 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 ontario 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 . 15 the transaction was approved by the crtc on october 19 2012 . 1 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 contemporary hit radio 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 . 16 17 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 . 18 on march 17 2005 the crtc published notice of an application haliburton filed in 2004 to launch an fm country station in north bay 19 which was approved on august 11 2005 . 20 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 . 21 this license was also subsequently granted and the station launched in 2006 . 22 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 . 23 on december 13 2010 haliburton applied to operate a new fm radio station in kemptville ontario . the new station will operate on 97.5 mhz with an adult contemporary format . haliburton received crtc approval on april 21 2011 . 24 on may 19 2011 haliburton applied to operate a new fm radio station in prescott ontario . the new station would operate at 107.9 mhz with a hot adult contemporary music format . haliburton received crtc approval on november 10 2011 . 25 on november 9 2011 haliburton submitted applications to the crtc to acquire cjfb fm in bolton ontario and cfgm fm in caledon ontario . 26 this was approved on march 14 2012 . 27 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 . 28 the deal was approved by the crtc on october 31 2008 . 29 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 . 30 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 31 but was subsequently withdrawn in january 2009 . 32 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 . 33 in february 2009 haliburton was part of a tentative deal to sell ciyn in kincardine to my broadcasting corporation . 34 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 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 ckey fm haldimand ckjn fm haliburton cfzn fm huntsville cfbk fm iroquois falls cfif fm kapuskasing ckap fm hearst ckht fm kemptville ckkv fm niagara falls cjed fm cflz fm north bay cfxn fm parry sound cklp fm prescott ckpp fm stratford cjcs chgk fm sturgeon falls cfsf fm timmins chmt fm 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 kincardine ciyn fm sold to my broadcasting corporation in 2009 sudbury chno fm sold to newcap broadcasting in 2001 sudbury chyc fm sold to le5 communications in 2008 timmins chyk fm sold to le5 communications in 2008 hearst chyk 3 kapuskasing chyx 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 . canadian press september 17 2010 . broadcasting decision crtc 2011 110 broadcasting decision crtc 2011 111 new radio station owner thrilled with niagara market niagara falls review 2010 two niagara falls radio stations sold 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 . broadcaster april 26 2012 . decision crtc 99 404 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 1 crtc decision 2008 296 2 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 edit haliburton broadcasting group moose fm radio network history of haliburton broadcasting group inc. canadian communications foundation v t e vista broadcast group corporate directors geoff poulton president & ceo radio stations by call sign cfbg cfbk cfbv cfcp cffm cfgm cfif cflz cfna cfni cfpw cfri cfsf cfxn cfzn chby chgk chms chmt chnv chpb ciqc cirx civh cjcd cjci cjcs cjed cjfb cjjm cjsu cjui ckap ckay ckbx ckcq ckht ckvv cklm cklp ckpp cknr ckqr ckwl see also haliburton broadcasting group retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title haliburton broadcasting group & oldid 700148901 categories radio broadcasting companies of canadaslaight communicationscompanies based in torontodefunct broadcasting companies of canada navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 16 january 2016 at 18 31 . text is available under the creative commons 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