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Listeners open wallets to help Alberta public broadcaster stay on the air
Media | 04/25/2024 3:32 pm EDT
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. ...
Corus still waiting for regulatory relief from CRTC as revenues continue to fall in Q2
Media | 04/15/2024 6:40 pm EDT
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...
CRTC sets final conditions of service on three broadcast licence holders
Media | 04/05/2024 6:12 pm EDT
The CRTC issued a series of decisions providing addenda to...
CRTC looking to add a new radio station in Calgary, Alta.
Media | 03/15/2024 1:14 pm EDT
The CRTC is issuing a call for applications from interested parties wishing...
CRTC to consider new radio station for Yellowknife
Media | 03/14/2024 4:19 pm EDT
The CRTC has decided to look at whether the town of Yellowknife, NWT can support another FM radio...
Court rejects station’s request for Rogers to disclose subscriber info
Media | 03/04/2024 3:32 pm EST
The Superior Court of Quebec has dismissed a request from RNC Media Inc. to...
Stingray, Corus, Pattison oppose Durham Radio’s expansion; Rogers wants CRTC to reconsider its plans
Media | 02/21/2024 4:20 pm EST
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...
BQ calls for support of CBC/Radio Canada and other media outlets
Media | 02/01/2024 12:29 pm EST
The Bloc Québécois is calling for CBC/Radio-Canada to have its funding...
Tait won’t rule out bonus pay for CBC’s top brass despite job cuts
Media | 01/30/2024 6:42 pm EST
CBC-Radio Canada CEO Catherine Tait won’t say if she, or the public...
CRTC initiates special process for official language minorities input for English content on French radio
Internet and Governance | 01/25/2024 4:38 pm EST
The CRTC has initiated a special consultation...
Community radio calls for new funding at CRTC
Internet and Governance | 11/24/2023 7:56 am EST
Representatives from several community radio stations emphasized their role as a third-pillar of the...
Rogers closes Ottawa news station, returns licence to CRTC
Media | 10/26/2023 6:30 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. has shuttered its all-news station in the...
Squamish BC gets new FM station to compete with Rogers
Media | 09/08/2023 5:41 pm EDT
The CRTC Friday granted an FM licence to Four Senses Entertainment Inc. to...
Another FM station gets short-term renewal for non-compliance
Media | 08/29/2023 4:50 pm EDT
The CRTC issued another short-term broadcasting licence renewal after it...
CRTC defers radio filings for two years to focus on Online Streaming Act
Media | 08/22/2023 4:39 pm EDT
The CRTC will defer new applications and complaints relating to radio as it...
Small-town N.S. radio station has licence renewed for another short term following continued non-compliance
Media | 08/21/2023 4:39 pm EDT
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...
Montreal radio station gets short term renewal over non-compliance
Media | 08/15/2023 4:42 pm EDT
Once again the CRTC has decided to issue a short term renewal licence to a...
Two BC radio stations have hands slapped by CRTC over non-compliance
Media | 08/14/2023 5:32 pm EDT
Two radio stations in British Columbia have been granted short-term...
CRTC denies request from Rogers-owned radio station to lower CanCon requirement
telecom | 08/10/2023 4:32 pm EDT
The CRTC has denied a request from Rogers Communications Inc. to delete the...
SiriusXM latest broadcaster denied relief from the CRTC
Media | 06/20/2023 5:37 pm EDT
The CRTC denied SiriusXM Canada Inc.’s request for relief from its...
CRTC encourages radio stakeholders to participate in contribution consults
Internet and Governance | 06/12/2023 2:35 pm EDT
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...
Catherine Tait reappointed as president of CBC/Radio-Canada
Media | 06/01/2023 5:04 pm EDT
The government has extended the term of Catherine Tait as president and CEO...
CRTC issues broadcasting licence fees
Media | 03/22/2023 1:03 pm EDT
The CRTC has issued the broadcasting licence fees for the 2023-2024 fiscal year. The estimated total...
CRTC grants Indigenous station radio license
Media | 03/09/2023 3:01 pm EST
The CRTC Thursday approved a radio broadcasting license for Piikani Resource Development Ltd. on behalf...
CRTC releases pair of broadcasting reports that paint dire picture
Media | 03/03/2023 6:04 pm EST
The CRTC released two commissioned reports on the changing nature of the...
CRTC won’t grant Yellowknife FM station, two commissioners dissent
Media | 02/15/2023 5:01 pm EST
After years of consideration, the CRTC determined that Yellowknife, NWT...
Ethics commissioner finds MP Fergus violated rules with letter to CRTC
Media | 02/14/2023 2:20 pm EST
Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion has found that...
CRTC vice-chair broadcasting prioritizing public policy goals over financial implications of C-11
Media | 01/24/2023 6:19 pm EST
The purpose of the CRTC is to achieve policy...
CRTC calls for FM radio applications in Joliette, Que.
Media | 01/23/2023 3:06 pm EST
Monday the CRTC opened up the radio market in Joliette, Que., calling for...
CRTC awards Mennonite group FM station in Alberta
Media | 01/17/2023 5:20 pm EST
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...
London Ont. to get commercial ethnic radio station
Media | 01/16/2023 4:09 pm EST
Monday the CRTC approved an application by Malayalam Commercial Radio Inc. for a low-power commercial...
CRTC revamps Canadian content regulations for radio; CAB dismayed
Media | 12/07/2022 5:43 pm EST
The CRTC has revised its rules for Canadian content in commercial radio. In...
CRTC to hold hearings on radio station proposals
Media | 12/05/2022 3:57 pm EST
The CRTC announced Monday that it will hold proceedings in February to consider six applications before...
Keep CanCon requirements for Rogers community radio, FRPC tells CRTC
Media | 12/01/2022 9:35 am EST
The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) told the...
Group suing CRTC worried language-minority groups will get left out of consultations, Senate hears
Media | 10/06/2022 10:51 am EDT
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...
CRTC rejects new commercial radio station for Rouyn-Noranda, Que.; will put community radio application to a hearing
Media | 09/22/2022 5:08 pm EDT
The Rouyn-Noranda market cannot support another...
TV revenues recover while radio continues decline: CRTC report
Media | 08/23/2022 5:03 pm EDT
Television revenues are rebounding from the pandemic slump while revenues...
Sarnia, Ont., won’t see new radio stations for at least 2 years: CRTC
Media | 07/27/2022 2:32 pm EDT
The CRTC denied a request filed by Sarnia Media and Entertainment Inc....
Radio-Canada personalities say mandated apology for using French N-word is censorship
Media | 07/04/2022 5:29 pm EDT
More than 50 personalities for CBC/...
CRTC grants CBC flexibility for push to digital
Media | 06/22/2022 6:45 pm EDT
The CRTC has granted a sweeping flexibility that paves the way for CBC/Radio-Canada to shift toward a...
CRTC approves new television rebroadcaster in British Columbia
Media | 04/22/2022 2:39 pm EDT
Friday the CRTC approved an application by the Burns Lake & District...
Corus profit margins lower, citing end of CEWS.
Media | 04/08/2022 5:01 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc.'s profits were hit by the loss of approximately $12 million in wage subsidies...
CBC license administratively renewed, full decision to come by late June
Media | 03/29/2022 3:56 pm EDT
The CRTC has issued an administrative renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada's...
CRTC approves Arsenal, Cogeco, radio swap
Media | 03/25/2022 2:42 pm EDT
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...
Federal government spends $2.5m to battle disinformation
Internet and Governance | 03/16/2022 3:17 pm EDT
The Canadian government has allocated $2.5 million to help people identify...
CRTC holding hearing for Indigenous radio, French-language radio, applications
Media | 03/07/2022 3:59 pm EST
The commission is holding a hearing for two separate applications for a...
Wide support for new community ethnic station in Winnipeg
Media | 01/28/2022 2:47 pm EST
The CRTC has received widespread support for a new community ethnic FM...
CRTC approves migration of Atlantic stations from AM to FM
Media | 01/26/2022 3:33 pm EST
The CRTC Wednesday approved the transfer of two English-language AM radio...
CRTC approves community FM station on Salt Spring Island
Media | 01/24/2022 12:25 pm EST
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),...
CRTC CPE deferral will mean revenue in 2023: Corus CEO
Media | 01/13/2022 5:07 pm EST
Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy reiterated a long-standing call...
CRTC solicits comments on FM radio applications
Media | 11/12/2021 12:39 pm EST
The CRTC is calling for comments on a series of FM radio applications in smaller markets across the...
CRTC denies license for low-power Alberta Mennonite radio station
Media | 10/08/2021 6:27 pm EDT
The CRTC Friday rejected an application for a broadcast license to operate...
CRTC issues consultation for several broadcasting applications
Media | 10/05/2021 4:06 pm EDT
The CRTC is holding a consultation to determine a series of applications...
Local Radio Lab acquiring three stations in Ontario
Media | 06/25/2021 1:27 pm EDT
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,...
CRTC rejects Amherstburg FM station proposal, citing Windsor radio market impact
Media | 06/17/2021 5:53 pm EDT
The CRTC has denied an application from Amherstburg Broadcasting...
CRTC approves broadcasting licence for Mohawk station in Quebec
Media | 06/14/2021 5:40 pm EDT
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,...
Stingray gets French designation for HITS service
Media | 06/02/2021 5:28 pm EDT
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...
Fort Erie radio station must keep 3 hours of news per week: CRTC
Media | 05/11/2021 5:36 pm EDT
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...
Indigenous non-profit takes over Quebec station after 3 year radio silence
Media | 05/11/2021 5:09 pm EDT
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,...
Supreme Court to hear making available right dispute
Media | 04/26/2021 5:55 pm EDT
The Supreme Court of Canada has decided it will hear an appeal from Music Canada and the Society of...
Numerous groups urge CRTC not to cut CanCon quotas for radio
Media | 04/01/2021 4:39 pm EDT
Numerous advocacy groups and smaller broadcasters are recommending that the...
Canadian radio broadcasters ask CRTC for space to compete with streamers
Media | 03/30/2021 5:35 pm EDT
The CRTC needs to do away with restrictive regulations, argue multiple...
Half of Canadians want CanCon regs for music streaming services: CRTC survey
Media | 02/23/2021 5:19 pm EST
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...
Intervention deadline extended for commercial radio review
Media | 01/11/2021 5:37 pm EST
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....
Court won’t hear appeal over CRTC’s radio licence denial
Media | 01/04/2021 4:52 pm EST
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...
CanCon relief will help commercial radio compete with Spotify: Bell Media
Media | 11/19/2020 5:40 pm EST
Canadian content programming relief from the CRTC would allow BCE Inc.'s...
CRTC consulting on its commercial radio policy
Media | 11/13/2020 10:17 am EST
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...
Community radio pushes back on CAB CanCon relief request
Media | 10/30/2020 12:41 pm EDT
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...
Radio station appealing CRTC licence denial in court
Media | 09/09/2020 4:44 pm EDT
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...
COVID has accelerated media ‘crisis’: report
Media | 08/26/2020 5:17 pm EDT
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...
Iqaluit radio stations licences renewed despite non-compliance
Media | 08/25/2020 5:23 pm EDT
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...
Broadcasters asked CRTC for emergency COVID-19 relief in July
Media | 08/21/2020 4:31 pm EDT
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...
Cogeco radio feels COVID hit, but overall revenues increase
telecom | 07/16/2020 4:42 pm EDT
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...
CRTC denies applications for new radio stations in Vancouver, Grande Prairie
Media | 07/06/2020 4:24 pm EDT
The CRTC has said no to two applications for new radio stations -- one in...
Q3 ‘very tough’ for Corus as ad revenues plummet
Media | 06/26/2020 3:27 pm EDT
The financial impacts of COVID-19 induced lockdowns led to a “very tough quarter” for Corus...
No new commercial radio stations in Scarborough, CRTC says
Media | 06/26/2020 3:07 pm EDT
The Scarborough radio market can’t support another commercial radio...
CRTC to put commercial radio policy framework under the microscope
Media | 01/28/2020 2:23 pm EST
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...
No plans to change alerts system, for now: CRTC
telecom | 01/13/2020 5:18 pm EST
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 TV revenues up, radio down
telecom | 01/10/2020 5:42 pm EST
Corus Entertainment Inc. this morning reported television revenue either in line or slightly higher than...
Alberta court bans station from using Corus trademark legacy
Media | 11/19/2019 5:39 pm EST
An Alberta court has sided with Corus Entertainment Inc. in banning the use...
Bell and Stingray partner on targeted ads for radio, audio streaming
Media | 09/26/2019 5:05 pm EDT
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...
CRTC commissioning research on global public broadcasters
Media | 07/29/2019 12:54 pm EDT
Ahead of its renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada’s broadcasting licences, the...
CRTC approves Stingray Alta. radio station buy
Media | 07/15/2019 4:59 pm EDT
The CRTC has approved an acquisition by Stingray Group Inc. of the radio station CHOO-FM in Drumheller,...
Broadcast news tax credit exclusion means cuts ‘inevitable’: CAB
Media | 07/02/2019 5:27 pm EDT
The independence of the panel that will determine which print news...
Scott says CRTC willing to be ‘flexible’ in future radio regulation
Media | 06/06/2019 1:41 pm EDT
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 calling for radio representation on tax credit panel
Media | 05/22/2019 5:25 pm EDT
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 buys podcast producer Pacific Content
Media | 05/01/2019 5:20 pm EDT
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’ turnaround partly propelled by ads returning to linear
Media | 04/05/2019 6:36 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc. said it will see TV ad growth in the third quarter...
CRTC consulting on Vancouver radio market capacity
telecom | 04/04/2019 3:28 pm EDT
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...
Bell asks to shut down 28 rebroadcasting transmitters
telecom | 03/26/2019 6:15 pm EDT
BCE Inc.’s media division is asking the CRTC to allow it to shutter 28 of its rebroadcasting...
CRTC rejects Vista’s bid for a new radio station in Timmins
Media | 03/20/2019 1:31 pm EDT
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...
Gov’t says pirate radio station has gone silent
Media | 03/19/2019 4:23 pm EDT
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...
Rural broadband, new tax rules among industry pre-budget asks
Media | 03/15/2019 5:55 pm EDT
As the Liberal government unveils its last budget before the upcoming...
Press council warns BTLR of ‘gap’ in complaints process for broadcasters
Media | 02/15/2019 4:16 pm EST
The National NewsMedia Council wrote to the expert panel reviewing...
Don’t mandate text message warning for emergency alerts: telecoms
telecom | 02/08/2019 3:29 pm EST
The majority of Canadian wireless providers who weighed in on a proposal to...
Don’t exclude online services from Broadcasting Act: Private radio
Media | 02/04/2019 12:00 pm EST
Canada’s private radio broadcasters are fighting against a push to keep...
CRTC reviewing capacity of three radio markets
Media | 01/30/2019 2:33 pm EST
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 sees TV ad rebound in Q1
telecom | 01/11/2019 5:14 pm EST
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported quarterly results Friday that showed TV ad revenue increasing 3.6 per...
Stingray to acquire Alberta radio station CHOO-FM
Media | 01/08/2019 12:15 pm EST
Montreal-based Stingray Group Inc.’s radio arm says it has entered into an agreement to acquire the...
Harmonize all emergency alert tests: officials
telecom | 01/03/2019 5:23 pm EST
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...