Starbuck, Manitoba
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Starbuck is a small town of about 350 people in Manitoba near the La Salle River, and is located within the Rural Municipality of Macdonald.
First settled around 1870 by farmers, the railway came through in 1881.
By 1909, Starbuck was bogeing. Families were moving in, and a passenger train came through twice a week. There were two general stores, a blacksmith, butcher, bank and hotel.
Starbuck is about a 20 minute drive from Winnipeg, making it easy for the students of Starbuck School to go there for field trips.
With three churches, many shops, and a new development on the way, Starbuck is still booming, even though the passenger train has stopped coming through. The rink is one of the busiest places in town.
The Starbuck Communications Tower transmits the signals of CBWT, CBWFT, CBW-FM, and CKSB-FM to places within 100 kilometres of its location. It is the tallest free-standing structure in the province at 1,064 feet (324.31 m).[1]
Around 2002, ROGERS set up the ROGERS Communications Tower, as a transmitter for its 92 CITI-FM and 102 Clear FM because ROGERS felt that the CBC-owned tower caused multipath distortion. Canwest Global's COOL FM had originally wanted to install its transmitter on the CBC tower, but they also moved it to the ROGERS tower.[2], and to decrease the EIRP from 100,000 to 63,700 watts.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ "CBWT Will Switch to Channel 6", Winnipeg Free Press, November 5, 1964, p. 3.
- ^ Broadcasting Application CRTC 2003-39. Government of Canada - CRTC (July 23, 2003).
- ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2003-470. Government of Canada - CRTC (September 19, 2003).
[edit] External links
See http://www.rmofmacdonald.com/starbuck.asp for more information.
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