ART JAMIESON AND STATION GENERAL MANAGER JASON MARSHALL
for our interview with Blake, so that he could record our conversation for later use in June or July. There we met with Jason, and had a chat about the history of the station and the vision for its future. Being from Renfrew, I knew that the station on the Burnstown Road had been the Mac Mackenzie Auto body location, but I had no idea that, before then, it was a drive-in movie theatre called the Jack Russell Drive-In Theatre. In 2001, Vic Garbutt was
approached to lead the efforts of a volunteer board to look into starting a community radio station in Renfrew County. I remember seeing Vic and his wife Linda at every fall fair and country music event in the Ottawa Valley, gathering signatures to support the project. After acquiring 12,000 names on their survey, the next step was to apply to the CRTC for a broadcast licence at a cost of $10,000. The group received $100 from one hundred people and organizations who would become the founding donors. And, in 2004, the CRTC application was approved and the 98.7 FM CJHR frequency was awarded. The Mac Mackenzie location
was found, but the next big step was to buy broadcasting equipment at a cost of $337,000, and have it done by June of 2006. Again, the people of the Valley came through! The next hurdle was to have everything up and running by September of 2006. This didn’t happen because of an antenna rental issue, so the board asked for a licence extension, which
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