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Flin Flonners will likely be able to tune into the nation's largest non-profit radio network by December. That's the word from David McLeod, general manager of Native Communications Inc., an aboriginal network accessible to 95 per cent of Manitoba listeners. "Flin Flon has definitely always been on our list," he said from his Winnipeg office. McLeod originally hoped NCI's signal would be available in Flin Flon early this summer, but the process proved lengthier than anticipated. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission reviewed the network's Flin Flon application in May and may not give a response until the middle of next month. McLeod expects an approval, as no one opposed the application and three prominent bodies ? the City of Flin Flon, Flin Flon School Division, and Flin Flon Indian-Metis Friendship Association ? wrote letters of support. Assuming approval is granted, NCI will order a transmitter and place it on the former Interactive TV tower behind Hapnot Collegiate. The signal will be available in Flin Flon and Creighton and begin to fade around Bakers Narrows, McLeod said. NCI would be heard on 101.1 FM. Meanwhile, NCI has already secured a license to broadcast in Snow Lake. The network expects that its signal will be heard in that community by the end of the summer on 96.3 FM. Beyond Flin Flon and Snow Lake, McLeod mentioned that NCI hopes to expand into other communities where it is not yet heard, primarily along the southern border of the province. A mixture of talk, music and news, some of it in Cree and Ojibwa, NCI has grown into the nation's largest non-profit radio network since being formed in 1971.
