Canada’s oldest public broadcaster is in a funding crunch but listeners are stepping up to the plate to support it as it works to raise $3 million by September. ...
As it reported further declines in revenue for the second quarter of 2024, Corus Entertainment Inc. called on the CRTC to finally grant it the regulatory relief that has been...
The CRTC issued a series of decisions providing addenda to...
The CRTC is issuing a call for applications from interested parties wishing...
The CRTC has decided to look at whether the town of Yellowknife, NWT can support another FM radio...
The Superior Court of Quebec has dismissed a request from RNC Media Inc. to...
Corus Entertainment Inc., Stingray Radio Inc., and Pattison Media Ltd. filed a joint intervention with the CRTC opposing an application by Durham Radio Inc. to expand its...
The Bloc Québécois is calling for CBC/Radio-Canada to have its funding...
CBC-Radio Canada CEO Catherine Tait won’t say if she, or the public...
The CRTC has initiated a special consultation...
Representatives from several community radio stations emphasized their role as a third-pillar of the...
Rogers Communications Inc. has shuttered its all-news station in the...
The CRTC Friday granted an FM licence to Four Senses Entertainment Inc. to...
The CRTC issued another short-term broadcasting licence renewal after it...
The CRTC will defer new applications and complaints relating to radio as it...
A community radio station in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia has been issued a short term licence renewal from the CRTC, despite consistent non-compliance with regulations, due to the...
Once again the CRTC has decided to issue a short term renewal licence to a...
Two radio stations in British Columbia have been granted short-term...
The CRTC has denied a request from Rogers Communications Inc. to delete the...
The CRTC denied SiriusXM Canada Inc.’s request for relief from its...
CRTC Commissioner Nirmala Naidoo urged members of the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA) to participate in consultations aimed at establishing a new contribution framework for online...
The government has extended the term of Catherine Tait as president and CEO...
The CRTC has issued the broadcasting licence fees for the 2023-2024 fiscal year. The estimated total...
The CRTC Thursday approved a radio broadcasting license for Piikani Resource Development Ltd. on behalf...
The CRTC released two commissioned reports on the changing nature of the...
After years of consideration, the CRTC determined that Yellowknife, NWT...
Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion has found that...
The purpose of the CRTC is to achieve policy...
Monday the CRTC opened up the radio market in Joliette, Que., calling for...
The CRTC Tuesday approved a proposal for an FM station serving La Crete, Alta. Two years ago the commission rejected a similar proposal from the Lawen Met Hopninj Radio Society for a licence, saying the limited broadcast day and restricted diversity did not meet regulatory...
Monday the CRTC approved an application by Malayalam Commercial Radio Inc. for a low-power commercial...
The CRTC has revised its rules for Canadian content in commercial radio. In...
The CRTC announced Monday that it will hold proceedings in February to consider six applications before...
The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) told the...
Executives from the French-language music group suing the CRTC are urging senators to reject the commission’s request to remove a requirement to “consult with official...
The Rouyn-Noranda market cannot support another...
Television revenues are rebounding from the pandemic slump while revenues...
The CRTC denied a request filed by Sarnia Media and Entertainment Inc....
More than 50 personalities for CBC/...
The CRTC has granted a sweeping flexibility that paves the way for CBC/Radio-Canada to shift toward a...
Friday the CRTC approved an application by the Burns Lake & District...
Corus Entertainment Inc.'s profits were hit by the loss of approximately $12 million in wage subsidies...
The CRTC has issued an administrative renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada's...
The CRTC approved two separate applications by Cogeco Inc. and Arsenal Media which would essentially see the two companies swap several radio stations in Quebec. In the first application, Cogeco requested to acquire Arsenal Media’s French-language commercial radio...
The Canadian government has allocated $2.5 million to help people identify...
The commission is holding a hearing for two separate applications for a...
The CRTC has received widespread support for a new community ethnic FM...
The CRTC Wednesday approved the transfer of two English-language AM radio...
On Monday the CRTC granted a licence to a new community FM station on Salt Spring Island British Columbia. The station will broadcast at 107.9 on the dial with a rebroadcasting transmitter at 102.1. The station will be run by Gulf Islands Community Radio Society (GICRS),...
Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy reiterated a long-standing call...
The CRTC is calling for comments on a series of FM radio applications in smaller markets across the...
The CRTC Friday rejected an application for a broadcast license to operate...
The CRTC is holding a consultation to determine a series of applications...
Local Radio Lab Inc. will be picking up three stations near the Greater Toronto area following approval of its application Friday by the CRTC. The broadcaster is acquiring three English-language stations -- CIMA-FM Alliston,...
The CRTC has denied an application from Amherstburg Broadcasting...
The CRTC has approved a new broadcasting licence for Mohawk Multi Media Inc., allowing it to operate an English and Kanien’ke:ha (Mohawk) language Indigenous ration station in Kanesatake/Oka,...
The CRTC approved a request from broadcaster Stingray Group Inc. Wednesday, asking that it be allowed to change its English-language discretionary service, Stingray HITS, into a French service. According to the decision, the...
The CRTC has denied Byrnes Communications Inc.’s request to amend its broadcasting licence so that its Fort Erie station is no longer bound to broadcast a minimum of three hours of news programming per week, of which 30 per cent (54 minutes) must be devoted to local news. The CRTC released its decision for the English-language commercial radio station CFLZ-FM in Fort Erie, Ont., on Tuesday. “The licensee stated that the challenges it faces in meeting the above-noted condition of licence arise during statutory holidays and other unique situations such as staff illnesses or a global...
Mohawk Multi Media Inc. was given the green light by the CRTC to acquire the assets of CKHQ-FM, a low-power English and Mohawk language Indigenous radio station broadcasting in Kanesatake and Oka,...
The Supreme Court of Canada has decided it will hear an appeal from Music Canada and the Society of...
Numerous advocacy groups and smaller broadcasters are recommending that the...
The CRTC needs to do away with restrictive regulations, argue multiple...
A new survey suggests that just over half of Canadians believe that streaming services like Spotify AB and Apple Inc.'s music service should be required to pay into Canadian...
The CRTC has extended its deadline for interventions to its commercial radio policy framework review following a procedural request from various associations representing the music sector....
The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected an application for leave to appeal by a broadcaster whose radio licence was denied renewal by the CRTC. The CRTC denied the licence renewal for Groupe...
Canadian content programming relief from the CRTC would allow BCE Inc.'s...
The CRTC has launched a consultation to review its regulatory framework for the commercial radio sector. It said in Thursday’s notice of consultation that it’s looking to “update the regulatory framework to best serve the...
The National Campus and Community Radio Association, Alliance des radios communautaires du Canada and Association des radiodiffuseurs communautaires du Québec have filed a joint intervention arguing...
After the CRTC refused to renew its broadcast licence earlier this summer, Groupe Médias Pam Inc. has turned to the Federal Court of Appeal, asking it to overturn that CRTC decision. In July, the regulator denied the renewal...
Canadian traditional media sources are in "crisis" as COVID-19 has exacerbated existing downward trends in advertising revenues, with shortfalls for local private broadcasters in the next two years...
Two Nunavut radio stations owned by Northern Lights Entertainment Inc. have had their broadcasting licences extended for just two years after the CRTC found they had failed to comply with a series of...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters asked the CRTC not to enforce conditions of licence and regulations relating to broadcasters’ expenditures for this broadcast year, citing the exceptional circumstances of the pandemic. It said that months into the COVID-19...
In its first quarterly report to include the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cogeco Inc.’s radio revenues fell by one-third, though its overall revenue beat analyst expectations. In the results...
The CRTC has said no to two applications for new radio stations -- one in...
The financial impacts of COVID-19 induced lockdowns led to a “very tough quarter” for Corus...
The Scarborough radio market can’t support another commercial radio...
The CRTC will review the policy framework surrounding commercial radio in Canada, including media consolidation rules, quotas of Canadian content and limits on the amount of top 40 songs that can be played in Ottawa and Montreal, the regulator has announced. The review process will include “several steps” of consultation, beginning with a “conversation with Canadians through public opinion research” and followed by a notice of consultation. The CRTC says it intends to...
The CRTC says there’s no immediate plans to change the regulations governing Canada’s emergency alert system after an Ontario -wide alert about an incident at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station was sent in error. ...
Corus Entertainment Inc. this morning reported television revenue either in line or slightly higher than...
An Alberta court has sided with Corus Entertainment Inc. in banning the use...
BCE Inc. and Stingray Group Inc. have launched a targeted advertising platform that allows ads to be placed on their radio stations, audio streaming apps and podcasts. The companies said in a press...
Ahead of its renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada’s broadcasting licences, the...
The CRTC has approved an acquisition by Stingray Group Inc. of the radio station CHOO-FM in Drumheller,...
The independence of the panel that will determine which print news...
CRTC chairman and CEO Ian Scott told a broadcasting conference Tuesday that the commission is “prepared to be flexible with new approaches to regulation” as it prepares to review its policy for...
Cogeco Inc. is lobbying the government to help Canadian radio news broadcasters qualify for a media tax credit and to have radio representation on a panel of experts vested with administering those benefits. The Montreal-based telecom last month registered a new subject...
Rogers Communications Inc. today announced that it is acquiring the Vancouver-based podcast company Pacific Content. “Podcasting is a big part of the future of audio. We quickly identified its immense potential and are being...
Corus Entertainment Inc. said it will see TV ad growth in the third quarter...
The CRTC wants to know whether the Vancouver radio market can sustain another radio station, after it received an application from Rogers Communications Inc. for a new broadcasting licence. It said in the notice of consultation...
BCE Inc.’s media division is asking the CRTC to allow it to shutter 28 of its rebroadcasting...
The CRTC has decided the Timmins, Ontario commercial radio market can’t sustain another station, rejecting an application by Vista Radio Ltd. for another broadcasting licence. Timmins has four commercial FM radio stations. Two are English-language stations owned by Rogers Communications Inc., CJQQ-FM and CKGB-FM. Vista owns the third English station, CHMT-FM, while LE5 Communications Inc. runs the French-language station CHYK-FM. Vista had argued to the commission that the radio advertising market in Timmins is “under exploited,” and that the profitability of stations there is...
An illegal radio station that allegedly kept operating despite being shut down by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has been off the air since last August, the government said in a response tabled on...
As the Liberal government unveils its last budget before the upcoming...
The National NewsMedia Council wrote to the expert panel reviewing...
The majority of Canadian wireless providers who weighed in on a proposal to...
Canada’s private radio broadcasters are fighting against a push to keep...
The CRTC has launched consultations on the radio market capacity of Vernon, B.C., Grande Prairie, Alta., and Scarborough, Ont. It said in the notices of consultation published Tuesday that it had received applications for new...
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported quarterly results Friday that showed TV ad revenue increasing 3.6 per...
Montreal-based Stingray Group Inc.’s radio arm says it has entered into an agreement to acquire the...
The current requirements for emergency alert tests, which specify a different schedule for tests on wireless devices and broadcast platforms, could cause public confusion and should be harmonized, according to emergency management officials across the country. Their...