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CJRT-FM
Frequency91.1 MHz (FM)
BrandingJAZZ.FM91
Programming
Formatjazz/public
Ownership
OwnerCJRT-FM Inc.
History
First air date
1949
Call sign meaning
C Journalism Radio Technology
Technical information
ClassC1
ERP40,000 watts
HAAT420.5 meters (1,380 ft)
Links
WebcastListen Live
Oscar Peterson channel
WebsiteJAZZ.FM91

CJRT-FM is a Canadian public radio station, which broadcasts at 91.1 on the FM dial in Toronto, Ontario. CJRT currently operates as JAZZ.FM91.

CJRT's studios are located on Pardee Avenue in Toronto's Liberty Village neighbourhood, while its transmitter is located on top of the CN Tower. It is available on Bell TV as channel 960, and on cable FM and digital cable audio services throughout Ontario.

History

The station was founded in 1949 as an experimental FM broadcaster, only the second in Canada, by the Ryerson Institute of Technology (later Ryerson University). The JRT in the station's call sign stand for "Journalism, Radio, Technology", which were three of Ryerson's educational mandates. The station's principal purpose was to train radio engineering and radio and (later television) broadcast students and initially only broadcast from 3 pm to 9 pm on weekdays during the school year. In 1964 the station became professionally staffed and extended its programming to 7 am to midnight, seven days a week. Content became an eclectic mix of classical music, jazz, folk music and other genres, educational and public affairs broadcasts, children's programming and dramas, news, documentaries and quiz shows and comedies imported from the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Ryerson owned the station until 1974 when, due to financial restraints, the post-secondary institution announced it would surrender its broadcast licence. Due to a public outcry in support of the station the Ontario government of Premier Bill Davis announced that it would fund the station through an independent corporation and ownership was transferred to CJRT-FM Inc., a non-profit corporation which received over 60% of its funding from the provincial government and the rest from donations by listeners and corporate and foundation support.

In 1996 CJRT-FM's government support was discontinued by Premier Mike Harris, forcing the station to restructure into a self-sustaining public broadcaster. Regulated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), CJRT's license is categorized under "other special FM", a third sector of Canadian radio broadcasting that provides to Canadians a style of radio that is an alternative to that available from the CBC or private commercial stations. The radio station has since had to support itself entirely by corporate and private donations and by limited commercial revenue. Its licence from the CRTC prohibits it from running commercials for more than four minutes an hour.

In co-operation with Ryerson and York University's Atkinson College, CJRT offered several on-air Open College university level credit courses a year from 1971 until 2003 when the service was transferred to Ryerson's G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education which now offers distance education through the internet, print and recorded media rather than on radio. In its last years, Open College broadcasts were aired Sunday mornings from 6 am to 8 am.[1]

Ryerson later launched another campus radio station, CKLN-FM, which was operational from 1983 to 2011.

Jazz format

In 2001, the station switched to a 24-hour jazz format under the name JAZZ.FM91, though it also continues to air interviews and commentary, BBC news and its own educational radio documentaries on music related topics. The station also offers internship and music scholarships and an inner-city community outreach program. Today, JAZZ.FM91 is an alternative radio voice that covers 95% of Ontario (and the adjacent parts of the United States) through a combination of on-air coverage from the CN Tower, through most cable systems in the province, via satellite, and the Internet.

In 2004, Ross Porter, a former jazz broadcaster with CBC radio, was named president and CEO of JAZZ.FM91. This was made necessary because an audit of the station finances from previous years led to the dismissal of the former president and CEO. Later the same year, Porter's former CBC Radio colleague Ralph Benmergui joined the station as host of its morning program. Benmergui left the station in 2010 to join the communications staff of provincial MPP Glen Murray, and was succeeded by John Donabie, who after much fanfare - including a full-page article in the Toronto Star - left the station after only nine months. In 2011 the morning shift was taken over by Heather Bambrick, who was succeeded in turn by Garvia Bailey in 2014, who went off the air in 2018. Ross Porter's Wikipedia page reports that he stepped down in May of 2018 to become president emeritus. This decision was driven by his need to spend more time with his ailing wife and war veteran son. He continues to host his popular Music to Listen to Jazz By radio show on Saturday mornings.

The station's studios remained on Ryerson property until May 2006, when it relocated to a new facility on Pardee Avenue in Liberty Village.

The availability of CJRT in the Buffalo, New York market may have been a factor in Buffalo's WBFO reducing its local jazz programming to late night weekend and overnight, and finally, on March 1, 2012, eliminating it entirely.

Other personalities currently associated with the station include: Ross Porter, Brad Barker, Terry McElligott, John Devenish, Walter Venafro, David Basskin and Glen Woodcock. In addition to hosts and jazz musicians: Joe Sealy, Heather Bambrick, Laura Fernandez, Danny Marks and Jaymz Bee. JAZZ.FM91 features Arts Reports weekdays & the program Arts Toronto, providing special coverage of the arts by Senior Arts Editor, Mark Wigmore.

They also feature on-air syndicated programs from international jazz favourites, including: Jamie Cullum’s BBC Radio Show, Radio Deluxe with John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey and the Ronnie Scott’s Radio Show with Ian Shaw.

Programming History: Blues guitarist Jeff Healey hosted a weekly program on the station, My Kinda Jazz, from 2005 until his death in 2008; the program continues to air in repeats. Actor and singer Terra Hazelton also formerly hosted a program devoted to classic jazz recordings from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. The station also carries several syndicated programs in the evening, including Jazz with Bob Parlocha, Riverwalk Jazz, and Wynton Marsalis' Jazz at Lincoln Center.

The radio station creates special programming content by recording live performances and concerts presented and produced by the organization. Such recordings include Live to Air concerts or music clinics that are hosted and performed within their Hall; performances with their Sound of Jazz Concert Seasons, and their annual fundraiser – JAZZ LIVES.

With Toronto’s publication Now Magazine, their ‘NOW Readers’ Choice: Best Of Toronto’ poll of 2015, the station was named as the Runner Up in the ‘Best Radio Station’ category. The following year, they were voted the ‘Best Radio Station’ in Toronto and on-air personality, Laura Fernandez (host of JAZZ.FM91’s program Café Latino) was nominated as the Runner Up in the ‘Best Radio Personality’ category.

In 2016, the New York Festivals World’s Best Radio Programs Awards, honoured JAZZ.FM91 with a Bronze award recognizing the station for Best Jazz Format.

Part of Canadian Music Week 2017, JAZZ.FM91 received two awards with the 52nd Annual Crystals Radio Awards: Bronze for Station Campaign and Silver for Copy Writing, both for their 'Discover Music Promo Campaign'.

In 2017, JAZZ.FM91 was recognized with Gold, Silver and Bronze at the prestigious 2017 New York Festivals World’s Best Radio Programs Awards. Repeating on the success of 2016, JAZZ.FM91 competed against over 30 countries and 200 broadcasting companies, securing awards for three programs:

Gold – For their Sunday morning live music program, The Sound of Jazz;

Silver – For Saturday morning’s Music To Listen To Jazz By with Ross Porter;

Bronze – For a special Live to Air Tribute Concert tribute to Leonard Cohen, hosted by Ross Porter.

Controversy, Allegations & Upheaval

In March 2018, Ross Porter was accused of sexually harassing "more than a dozen"[2] current and former employees. This was following a 2005 accusation against Porter of racism by staff members at JAZZ.FM, although such charges were disputed. .[3]

In June 2018, as reported in the Globe and Mail, a group of past and present employees, who call themselves the Collective, wrote to JAZZ.FM91’s Board of Directors in March 2018 alleging “ongoing workplace harassment, sexual harassment, bullying, and general mismanagement of the station by Porter.” [4] [5] In that same letter, the Collective stated that the radio’s work environment “had become intolerable” and that “past complaints have gone unheeded”. [6] Some complainants alleged that Porter regularly “initiated sexually graphic conversations, engaged in unwanted touching and made jokes suggesting that employees should sleep with the station’s supporters” and that Porter would request employees to pitch ideas that would “make me horny”. [7] The Collective also alleged that Porter would "frequently reduce staff to tears, humilitate them in front of co-workers and berate announcers during commercial breaks." [8] The Collective stated that more than 40 employees "have either resigned abruptly under duress, been fired abruptly or have left their employment with the station because it was untenable." [9] The Collective also alleged that some employees who had reported Porter’s behaviour had faced “threats of legal action or other retribution” and that the management style of Porter and VP of Finance and Operations Sharda Prashad created a “climate of fear, intimidation, retaliation, gaslighting and threat of reprisals” within JAZZ.FM. The Collective alleged that “Sharda Prashad, Board Chair Bernard Webber and Vice-Chair Renah Persofsky had enabled Porter’s alleged behaviour.”[10] It was later revealed in a National Post article that of the 13 members of the staff who signed the complaint, all but one were fired. [11]

The JAZZ.FM Board then hired Jennifer MacKenzie to conduct an investigation while Renah Persofsky assumed the Board Chair position, despite being one of the four individuals being investigated. [12] The JAZZ.FM91 Board justified the move stating that, “Ms. Persofsky volunteered to provide this oversight and our legal counsel confirmed it was appropriate for her to do so.”[13]

The results of the investigation were concluded in April. The Globe and Mail reported McKenzie had found that the charges were largely “unsubstantiated while others warranted further consideration and action”. [14] [15][16]

Porter says that he considers "many of these accusations to be isolated, distorted and manipulated out of context,"[17] and that they are "fabrications to distortions"[18] and that his stepping down is so that he can "spend more time with his family". [19] In May 2018, Porter stepped down from his position as president and CEO on the heels of the investigation into complaints of sexual harassment and creating a toxic work environment.[2] He was granted the title of "President Emeritus". [20] In an emailed letter, Board members David McGown and Charles Cutts stated that in his capacity, Porter would continue to provide advice and programming to JAZZ.FM91.[21]

In a letter shared with The Globe and Mail, the Collective requested to review the outcome of the investigation and requested the Board to release the report. The Board refused the request.[22] The Collective were also upset "by the lack of postinvestigation clarity from management, noting that employees were advised...that Porter might continue to be a prominent face of the station in its fundraising drives and other public activities. They felt it especially inappropriate...in light of how employees had allegedly suffered under his management."[23] A former host and other staff also questioned the Board's decision to approve Ross Porter's salary of $300,000 given that JAZZ.FM91's annual budget was $4.5 million. [24] JAZZ.FM91 is a registered not-for-profit charity. According to the Canadian Revenue Agency’s (CRA) charity listings for 2017, JAZZ.FM91 received $4,597,033 in revenue, with expenses totalling $4,567,422 for that fiscal year. A total of $2,115,948 was compensation for all full-time and part-time employees, with only 1 full-time employee compensated in the salary range of $300,000-$349,999. Three employees received between $120,000 to $159,999, and six employees received between $80,000 to $119,999.[25]

Seven staff members were fired weeks after Porter stepped down including Jaymz Bee, Mark Wigmore, Walter Venafro, David Wall, and David Basskin among others. The firings were on the tail after both Garvia Bailey and Dani Elwell no longer were on the air. [26] [27] Such firings were criticized, including "JAZZ.FM91 being hammered by listeners for firing a number of high-profile hosts." [28] Donors, supporters and listeners expressed shock and criticism of the firings as there was no explanation given about the departures of the on-air personalities. [29] Dani Elwell, among those let go, told the CBC, “Unfortunately, this was not my choice. I wasn’t allowed to say goodbye with the show.” [30] Charles Cutts stated that the decisions to fire the employees were to "address competitive and financial pressures." [31] and that such cuts were necessary due to the “media landscape and the unexpected, burdensome cost of the workplace investigation.” [32] Board Chair David McGown wrote that the firings were due to the “fractured media landscape.” [33]

In June 2018, one of JAZZ.FM91's supporters, Bay Bloor Radio, pulled its ads from Porter's Saturday morning show after news of the allegations against Porter surfaced. The move cost the station $70,000. [34] Mark Mandlsohn, president of Bay Bloor Radio stated that they "were uncomfortable with what we've heard and what we've read." [35] Other donors interviewed in a CBC piece and posted elsewhere on social media including Facebook, Twitter, and the JAZZFM’s own Facebook feed stated that they were cancelling their monthly donations in light of Porter's allegations and the station's "lack of transparency" over their actions subsequent to the allegations. [36] They were “heartsick” at what was happening at JAZZ.FM91, [37] that “with great sadness” they “cancel[led their] perpetual donation”, [38] and that “Jazzfm listeners need to follow Bay Bloor Radio’s lead and stop supporting the station until there’s real accountability and transparency.” [39] It was revealed in a Toronto Star and National Post article that JAZZ.FM91 was expected to lose “several hundred thousand dollars” in revenue by the end of the 2018 year as a result of the controversy, [40] “severance costs, on-going litigation and overall decline in advertising”. [41]

In August 2018, The Toronto Star reported that David McGown, who chairs the Board, believed that a group was seeking to control the board and was "looking for an opportunity to disrupt a relatively small charitable institution and grab what is an extremely valuable asset" - its strong signal from the CN Tower.[42] McGown also stated that doing so would result in JAZZ.FM91 becoming "just another commercial broadcasting station."[43] A Globe and Mail article released that same day noted that the email received by McGown alleged that the station had "consistently rebuffed requests from members...to provide 'full disclosure of corporate records, copies of the By-Laws and minutes to meetings.'" and that there was "no transparency" in how the Board handled the allegations by the Collective. [44]. In that same piece, the Globe and Mail reported that the not-for-profit JAZZ.FM91 holds a license from the CRTC that requires the station to "provide programming that is 'clearly complementary to, rather than imitative of, that provided by commercial broadcasters'" so that a take-over "seems unlikely". [45]

In August 2018, a statement of claim was filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice by Garvia Bailey, once host of JAZZ.FM91’s show Good Morning Toronto from 2014 to 2018. The claim alleges that she and others were "being bullied, harassed and sexually harassed by Ross Porter" and that “given the years of bullying and harassment from Ross Porter directed at Ms. Bailey, the environment created by the bullying, harassment, and sexual harassment of staff at JAZZ.FM91 by Ross Porter, Sharda Prashad, Renah Persofsky and others, and the callous, high-handed and egregious nature of the attempt to demote and/or subject Ms. Bailey to arbitrary performance management without any legitimate rationale, Ms. Bailey determined she could not return to an unsafe and toxic work environment."[46] Bailey also alleged that in 2015 she was sexually harassed by a JAZZ.FM91 donor whom Porter instructed staff to be “extra nice to”. [47] In the Statement of Claim filed, Bailey is seeking $420,000, including a year of salary for wrongful dismissal ($90,000), moral damages ($100,000), and punitive damages ($100,000), loss of publicity ($50,000), breach of the duty of honesty ($50,000), reprisal under the Ontario Human Rights Code ($30,000). [48]

In a statement issued by JAZZ.FM91 and posted to its website, JAZZ.FM91 responded to Bailey's claim stating that "JAZZ.FM91 has received Ms. Bailey's Statement of Claim and denies the allegations." [49]

Dissatisfaction from supporters and listeners with JAZZ.FM91's mishandling of Porter's allegations, the Board’s actions, and the firings of on-air personalities, came to a head on August 31, 2018 when member-donors attended the station's Annual General Meeting (AGM). The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and National Post all reported that donor-members called for the entire Board to be dissolved and resign over its handling of the allegations as a way to regain trust with sponsors and donors.[50][51][52] Those in attendance were angered over the Board's decision to keep Ross Porter on air as a host and called for Porter's radio program to be discontinued. David McGown later confirmed in the meeting that Porter "continues to play a role with the station". [53][54] In a telephone interview with the Toronto Star, Porter himself confirmed that he "continues to serve at the pleasure of the board and the station's senior management" and that he "continue[s] to play a significant role in making the station successful." [55] When those in attendance asked what Porter’s current pay was, the Board declined to answer. [56] Attendees were also "disappointed at the lack of transparency from management and the Board" citing that they had not been notified about the AGM, had not been able to access the station's financials despite repeated requests, and that if sent, AGM notice was "sent the same day that members could nominate directors" leaving little time for meaningful action.[57] Information about the August 31, 2018 AGM was itself posted on the JAZZ.FM91 website on August 29, 2018, though does state that donor-members will “have received a notice of the AGM either by email or by regular email.” [58]The National Post reported that a member had requested a copy of the by-laws and members list prior to the AGM (which required a signed affidavit). The member received the members list (with no email addresses) and was only invited to copy the by-laws by hand. Others also stated that their requests for documents had been denied.[59] Yet others in attendance were dissatisfied with the “Muzak” coming from the station as the disappearance of longtime on-air hosts meant that radio was no longer “personality driven”. [60] Others at the AGM stated they felt “betrayed”, had “no faith” [61] and wanted the Board “to tender your resignations”. [62]

The AGM was described by all three newspapers as "standing-room-only",[63] packed with "angry donors", [64] who were "certainly agitated". [65]

The National Post and Globe and Mail reported that a savejazzfm.com website was set up by Brian Hemming[66][67]and consists of "a group of donors and other supporters that is concerned for the future of the station under the current leadership."[68] The website criticizes the current Board stating that “Recent actions of the Board of Directors have lacked transparency and full disclosure to members. No credible reasons have been provided for actions that have deeply affected of [sic] operation and future of the station.” [69] The website details what occurred at the AGM and states that, "No adequate answers were provided with respect to the role or remuneration of Ross Porter, citing privacy. In fact, the board refused to even acknowledge whether Mr. Porter was receiving any remuneration and why he was bestowed the title of President Emeritus." and that "[b]ecause of a question submitted by a member, the board was forced to acknowledge that by not presenting the financial statements to the annual meeting no later than six months after the end of the fiscal year, it was not in compliance with the Corporations Act. They were also in breach of the Act last year on this point, indicating a troubling lack of attention to proper governance. Additionally, as noted above, by not giving all members notice of past AGMs, the board may have breached the Act further."[70]

In a release issued on the JAZZ.FM91 website, it was reported that "donor members offer[ed] unprecedented support"[71] at the AGM, and that David McGown "described the meeting as 'absolutely positive'" [72]

Leadership Change

In March 2018, Ross Porter was accused of sexually harassing more than a dozen current and former employees of JAZZ.FM (CJRT-FM). In June 2018, he stepped down from his position as president and CEO on the heels of the investigation into multiple complaints of sexual harassment and creating a toxic work environment. An independent investigation did not sustain these charges, and Porter noted his reasons for leaving were the illness of his wife and son. He has continued his involvement with the station, continuing his broadcast, but no longer has a leadership position. [73][74][75][76][77][78]

See also

References

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