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12 unusual facts about Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission


Area code 867

In 2011, facilities-based local service competition was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), so additional central office codes are now required for competitive carriers wishing to offer local service.

CFCM-DT

Télévision de Québec was nearly forced to sell its stations in 1969 because of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's new rules requiring television stations to be 80 percent Canadian-owned.

CHBC-DT

After months of negotiation, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved the split of WIC's assets between Canwest, Corus Radio and Shaw Communications.

All of station's transmitters must begin broadcasting in digital before August 31, 2016, as part of a promise Shaw made to the CRTC during its acquisition of Canwest.

CJIL-DT

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) granted a broadcasting licence to Dick and Joan Dewert (also known as Dick and Joan Deweert) on April 4, 1995.

CKCS-DT

It is administered by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) Religious Broadcast Regulations and follows a policy of not airing shows containing "coarse language, gratuitous violence or explicit sexual scenes."

CKES-DT

It is administered by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) Religious Broadcast Regulations and follows a policy of not airing shows containing "coarse language, gratuitous violence or explicit sexual scenes."

CKPG-TV

In 1988, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) renewed the network licence for CKPG-TV and Terrace station CFTK-TV, which allowed the two CBC affiliates to use the Corporation's microwave equipment to transfer syndicated programming, when it was not being used for CBC programming.

Haul video

The Canadian equivalent of the FTC in Canada, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, is also closely monitoring such Internet activities.

Jean-Yves Laforest

Briefly after TQS, a Quebec-based TV network, announced that it would abolish its information services division, Laforest introduced legislation that would create a separate branch of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for Quebec.

Lisa Brokop

While "Give Me a Ring Sometime" was charting, many Canadian radio stations refused to play Brokop's music after the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ruled that "Give Me a Ring Sometime" did not have a sufficient amount of Canadian content in the song.

WBUF

WBUF-FM also cannot generally be heard in the Greater Toronto Area because the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) allows CKJN-FM to broadcast which is often overlapping & very unreliable in that vicinity, though this was not the case until CKJN signed on.


1984 in radio

CKLW's FM sister station CFXX experiments with a Top 40/Rock hybrid format called "94 Fox FM" in some dayparts, but its application to make "The Fox" a full-time format is denied by the CRTC and the experiment lasts only a few months.

C Channel

Toronto-based company Lively Arts Market Builders Inc. was one of several companies that received a licence from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to provide a subscription television service for Canadian cable companies.

Canadian Radio-Television Commission

Being both a broadcaster and regulator was seen as a conflict of interest and the Board of Broadcast Governors was created to oversee the regulatory side of the broadcasting industry.

CBC Hamilton

Moreover, the availability of open radio frequencies in the Toronto-Hamilton region is extremely limited; in the wake of Bell Canada's attempts to acquire Astral Media, Hamilton Councillor Brian McHattie called for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to require that the combined company divest a station to the CBC so it can have access to a radio station serving Hamilton.

CBYK-FM

On October 28, 2011, the CBC filed an application with the CRTC to convert CBYK-FM from a rebroadcaster of CBTK-FM to an anchor of a new 23-station regional CBC Radio One network for the Thompson and Cariboo regions, with regional programming originating from new studios in Kamloops.

CFCF-DT

In 1972, because of new foreign ownership guidelines implemented by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), CFCF-TV (majority owned by General Electric Company plc, a British company, through its subsidiary Canadian Marconi Company) and its sister stations CFCF-AM, CFQR-FM and CFCX-SW were sold to computer and telecommunications company Multiple Access Ltd., owned by the Bronfman family.

CHSV-FM

On January 20, 2012, Evanov announced that Dufferin applied with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to establish a new Soft AC station in Hudson; the new station would broadcast at 106.7 MHz at 500 watts at 94 metres HAAT.

CJCJ-FM

Ltd. received approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to operate two low-power AM transmitters at Plaster Rock on 990 kHz (40 watts), and Perth/Andover on 1140 kHz with 40 watts.

CJLD-FM

On February 22, 2012, Mark Tamagi, on behalf of Blackgold Broadcasting Inc, received Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to operate a new English language FM radio station in Leduc.

CJMS

The call sign CJMS was chosen as the original plan was to use the 1280 kHz frequency, which was allocated instead by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to multilingual station CFMB.

CJRP-FM

On February 14, 2003, Tom Gamblin, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated (TFG Communications), received Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approval to operate a new English language FM radio station at Saint John.

CJVF-FM

The license to the station was granted by the CRTC on December 7, 2011, with the stiplulation that its programming consist of 60% Tamil, 20% Punjabi, 10% Filipino, and 10% English language programming.

Nicolas Tétrault

He is currently a partner in Tietolman Tetrault Pancholy Media, a company which has received two new licenses for talk radio stations in Montreal, 600 AM (English) and 940 AM (French) from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission which are expected to launch by the end 2013.

North American television frequencies

Later that year (on December 16, 2011), Industry Canada and the CRTC followed suit in placing a moratorium on future television stations using Channel 51 for broadcast use, to prevent adjacent-channel interference to the A-Block of the 700 MHz band.

NOWTV

On November 1, 2004, Trinity Television announced that it was selling CHNU and the licence for CIIT-TV Winnipeg, at that time not yet launched, to Rogers Communications, subject to Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approval.

Ontario Liberal Party candidates, 2003 Ontario provincial election

She criticized hockey personality Don Cherry for appearing in a beer commercial in 2003, arguing that role models such as Cherry are forbidden from promoting alcoholic drinks by the provisions of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) (Halifax Daily News, 8 May 2003).

Quebec provincial by-elections, 2004

Benefiting from anger over the CRTC's decision to revoke CHOI-FM's broadcasting license, Sylvain Légaré was elected in Vanier, under the ADQ label.

Star Ray TV

The station, which broadcasts in digital on channel 22 in Toronto's Beaches neighbourhood, was launched in 1997 when Jan Pachul, an amateur radio operator, applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for a licence to serve the community.

The Wire Report

The news service covers industry events but is known for focusing on regulatory developments at the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission, the Copyright Board of Canada, the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal, the spectrum management branch at Industry Canada, the Department of Canadian Heritage and the House of Commons and Senate.