u/Informal-Thought-293

Currently living in the Bonavista area. There's now no reliable FM station on the whole peninsula since OZ-FM shut down their transmitter on 92.1 FM in the Elliston ridge area. Cell service is horrible (especially with the large influx of tourists in the summer months) so only options to listen to live content in a car now are basically VOCM on 710 AM (transmitter in Clarenville), CBC Radio on 750 AM (transmitter across the bay in Eastport) and SiriusXM if you have a subscription. SiriusXM is overall decent but still cuts out a fair bit due to geography in some areas of the peninsula. The AM radio station quality is terrible due to the nature of how bad AM sounds in general but coverage is reliable in-vehicle at least.

There appears to still be a massive CBC tower on Park Road near Port Rexton (visible from Lockston Path Provincial Park) that used to host the local analog CBC TV channels back in the day as per CBC's website. How does one go about getting CBC to install an FM repeater on this tower for CBC Radio One and/or CBC Music stations? Due to its location and height it would easily cover the whole Bonavista Peninsula with a reliable high quality FM signal so it would be a nice option for the 8,000 or so people living in the Bonavista area. I figure all other radio stations might not care to look into expanding but since CBC is taxpayer funded is it possible they may have a mandate to cover all of populated Canada at least?

Currently living in the Bonavista area in Newfoundland. There's now no reliable FM station on the whole peninsula since OZ-FM shut down their transmitter on 92.1 FM in the Elliston ridge area. Cell service is horrible (especially with the large influx of tourists in the summer months) so only options to listen to live content in a car now are basically VOCM on 710 AM (transmitter in Clarenville), CBC Radio on 750 AM (transmitter across the bay in Eastport) and SiriusXM if you have a subscription. SiriusXM is overall decent but still cuts out a fair bit due to geography in some areas of the peninsula. The AM radio station quality is terrible due to the nature of how bad AM sounds in general but coverage is reliable in-vehicle at least.

There appears to still be a massive CBC tower on Park Road near Port Rexton (visible from Lockston Path Provincial Park) that used to host the local analog CBC TV channels back in the day as per CBC's website. How does one go about getting CBC to install an FM repeater on this tower for CBC Radio One and/or CBC Music stations? Due to its location and height it would easily cover the whole Bonavista Peninsula with a reliable high quality FM signal so it would be a nice option for the 8,000 or so people living in the Bonavista area. I figure all other radio stations might not care to look into expanding but since CBC is taxpayer funded is it possible they may have a mandate to cover all of populated Canada at least?

Reposting here since the Eastlink subreddit is a little quiet:

Bit of a technical question but noticed that Eastlink didn't bid on any 600 MHz spectrum in Newfoundland during the last couple of spectrum auctions but did for the rest of Atlantic Canada. What will happen in that case when it comes to rolling out low band 5G? Correct me if I'm wrong but I think they only possess a 5 MHz wide channel of Band 13 (700 MHz) in Newfoundland which they already use for LTE. Is it possible for them to use DSS on a 5 MHz wide channel to allow for both 5G and LTE on Band 13? (hoping Sheytoon sees this lol). If not I feel that Eastlink will always be significantly disadvantaged in Newfoundland compared to Rogers' and Bell's multiple low-band deployments.

Bit of a technical question but noticed that Eastlink didn't bid on any 600 MHz spectrum in Newfoundland during the last couple of spectrum auctions but did for the rest of Atlantic Canada. What will happen in that case when it comes to rolling out low band 5G? Correct me if I'm wrong but I think they only possess a 5 MHz wide channel of Band 13 (700 MHz) in Newfoundland which they already use for LTE. Is it possible for them to use DSS on a 5 MHz wide channel to allow for both 5G and LTE on Band 13? (hoping Sheytoon sees this lol). If not I feel that Eastlink will always be significantly disadvantaged in Newfoundland compared to Rogers' and Bell's multiple low-band deployments.