{"id":121652,"date":"2017-10-05T05:54:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T09:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=121652"},"modified":"2017-10-05T05:54:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T09:54:07","slug":"hamilton-plans-2019-juno-awards-bid-with-hopes-of-becoming-permanent-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/05\/hamilton-plans-2019-juno-awards-bid-with-hopes-of-becoming-permanent-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton plans 2019 Juno Awards bid with hopes of becoming permanent home"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_121659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121659\" style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Hamilton_Coat_of_Arms.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121659\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Hamilton_Coat_of_Arms.png\" alt=\"Coat of Arms of Hamilton (Wikimedia Commons, Fair Use)\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-121659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coat of Arms of Hamilton (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=18209198\">Wikimedia Commons, Fair Use<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO &#8212; Hamilton is bidding to host the 2019 Juno Awards with an extra request: it wants to become the permanent home of the coveted Canadian music event.<\/p>\n<p>The city council general issues committee reached an agreement on Wednesday to submit an offer that will be hitched to the belief that Hamilton&#8217;s burgeoning\u00a0arts\u00a0community offers enough reason for the Junos to stay put.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for mayor Fred Eisenberger confirmed that even if the Junos don&#8217;t agree to those terms, the city wants to host the ceremony for at least three to five years in a row. Questions about how much it was willing to pay were not immediately answered by local representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton&#8217;s city council will make a final vote on the bid at a meeting slated for Oct. 11<\/p>\n<p>Juno organizers have a long history with the city, which most recently held the awards show there in 2015. Before that, the Junos descended on Hamilton five times between 1995 and 2001. Next year&#8217;s show will be held in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>A host city carries a number of tourism benefits, aside from being prominently featured on the telecast. The Juno Awards are surrounded by roughly a full week of events at local venues, as well as the Juno Cup hockey game and several music education fundraisers.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from Junos head Allan Reid emphasized that other Canadian locales are also vying to become the 2019 host city, and that a decision won&#8217;t be forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe currently have interest from multiple cities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA decision on a successful Juno Awards host city bid can be made anywhere between 12 to 18 months out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; Hamilton is bidding to host the 2019 Juno Awards with an extra request: it wants to become the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":121659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[26178,26179,5346,26180,572],"class_list":["post-121652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-2019-juno-awards","tag-fred-eisenberger","tag-hamilton","tag-juno-cup-hockey","tag-vancouver","mauthors-david-friend","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}