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Through the 1968 Broadcasting Act, the Canadian Radio-television Commission ( the forerunner to today's Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC )) decreed that broadcast stations licensed within Canada must be at least 80 percent owned by Canadians.

With this ordinance in effect, RKO General's stewardship of the CKLW stations was coming to a close.

Western Ontario Broadcasting's licence to operate the stations was renewed for only one year, and in 1969 General Tire looked to sell them rather than accept a 20 percent ownership share.

However, the CRTC was more lenient with private affiliates that were owned partially or fully by British interests, such as the CTV affiliates ( and partial stake in CTV itself, since CTV was a cooperative owned by its stations at the time ) in Montreal, Ottawa, and the Maritimes -- or had much lower shares of American ownership ( such as CKCO-TV in Kitchener, Ontario and CKMI-TV in Quebec City ) though those stations went to all-Canadian ownership.