CFDR had previously been licensed to move to 88.9 FM, however the subsequent purchase of CKUL by parent company Newcap Broadcasting made this conversion impossible due to concentration of media ownership rules.
Sale to Rogers Communications was approved by the CRTC on November 24, 2008, and the station has moved to FM 92.9 and started up August 7, 2009 at 12:00 pm AST.
[1] On July 29, 2016, CJCH-FM was rebranded to "Virgin Radio" marking the first ever entry into the Atlantic Canadian market for that branding.
HRM was formerly served by CBHFT-TV, a rebroadcaster of the Ici Radio-Canada Télé station CBAFT-DT in Moncton, but the transmitter was shut down in 2012 due to budget cuts.
Several specialty digital television channel licenses have also been developed in HRM in recent years by Salter Street Films.
[2] StarMetro Halifax was the city's other daily paper, which was launched as a free handout by Transcontinental Media on February 14, 2008.
The Transcript, The Signal, and the Halifax Commoner are published by students attending the award-winning journalism program at the University of King's College.
The outlet went on "indefinite hiatus" from June 2016 due to a limited budget and the fact that some of their core volunteers had moved on to other work.
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