{"id":169,"date":"2006-02-20T22:57:41","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T03:57:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"distinct_niagara_deserves_its_own_tv_sta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/20\/distinct_niagara_deserves_its_own_tv_sta\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Distinct’ Niagara deserves its own TV station: Wilks"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The man who spearheaded plans to establish Niagara’s first commercial television station has won the support of Niagara Region politicians in his bid to overturn a decision by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) turning the TV station proposal down.<\/p>\n

Wendell Wilks said Niagara is a “distinct place” with a large enough market to justify a commercial TV station of its own, rather than relying on tranmissions beamed in from other centres. In a presentation to regional council, Wilks said his company remains determined to carry on with its years-long battle to obtain the necessary CRTC approval to start one here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Niagara This Week: The man who spearheaded plans to establish Niagara’s first commercial television station has won the support of Niagara Region politicians in his bid to overturn a decision by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) turning the TV station proposal down. Wendell Wilks said Niagara is a “distinct place” with a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}