In the months that followed the election, the ADQ benefited from anger over the decision of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) not to renew the license of Quebec City radio station CHOI-FM.

He has also faced penalizing decisions by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) and the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, perhaps most notably regarding several on-air statements he made which led to the non-renewal of the licence of CHOI-FM.

Had the sale to RNC Media not gone through, the decision would have effectively forced CHOI-FM to stop broadcasting at 23: 59 the same day.

CHIK-FM started operations on July 29, 1982, as a sister station to the now-defunct CJRP 1060 and originally had an easy listening format, similar to what CITF-FM and CHOI-FM then had as per their respective conditions of licence ; it switched to a contemporary hit radio format a few years after opening because there were too many easy listening stations in the Quebec City market.

CHOI-FM is a French language FM radio station that broadcasts on the frequency 98. 1 MHz out of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, with a talk radio format ( before its takeover by RNC Media, it aired mainly active rock music, and finally to modern rock until becoming a talk radio station in 2010 ).

After RNC Media acquired the station, CHOI-FM shifted to alternative rock, becoming the first French-language alternative rock station in Canada, but continued to report as an active rock station on Mediabase.

On January 17, 2012, Rogers announced its intent to acquire SCN outright from Bluepoint Investment Corporation, pending approval by the CRTC.

Following Canwest seeking creditor protection in late 2009, Shaw Communications subsequently took over most of Alliance Atlantis's former broadcasting assets as of October 27, 2010. after CRTC approval for the sale was announced on October 22.

With the sale of CTVglobemedia to Bell Canada as announced in September 2010 ( pending CRTC and Competition Bureau approval ), Bell would ( if approved ) take control of most of CHUM's former assets for the first time.

On September 10, 2010, Bell Canada announced plans to re-acquire 100 % of CTVglobemedia, a deal which was approved by the CRTC on March 7, 2011, and closed on April 1, 2011 with CTVglobemedia being replaced by Bell Media.

On May 17, 2012, Bell Media had announced to the CRTC that it was unable to negotiate a lease with Channel Zero, owners of CHCH-DT ( and its broadcast tower ).

On June 8, 2007, the CRTC announced its approval of CTVglobemedia's purchase of CHUM Limited, but added a condition that CTVglobemedia must sell off CHUM's Citytv stations to another buyer while keeping the A-Channel stations ( including CFPL ), in effect cancelling the planned sale of A-Channel to Rogers Media.

In 2008, Rogers announced a takeover offer for Aurora Cable, a cable service provider in York Region, Ontario ( pending approval by Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC )).

On September 29, 2006, YTV Canada Inc. announced it had applied to the CRTC for permission to launch a Category 2 English-language specialty channel called The Anime Channel.

A formal agreement was later announced, with the proposed transaction being approved by the CRTC on September 28, and completed on October 29 of the same year.

In March 2010, CKPR announced it was unable to come to an agreement with CBC to continue to operate as an affiliate, and filed an application with the CRTC to remove the CBC affiliation requirement from their license.

On April 9, 2007, it was announced that Rogers Communications has filed with the CRTC to purchase all of the A-Channel stations, including CFPL, CKNX, CKX-TV, Access Alberta and several cable channels being put up for sale by CHUM Limited in the wake of CTVglobemedia's pending acquisition of the CHUM group.

In February 1973, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) announced that it had received two applications to start a new television station in Winnipeg.

On April 9, 2007, it was announced that Rogers Communications filed with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to purchase all of the A-Channel stations, including CKNX, CKX-TV, Access Alberta and several cable channels being put up for sale in the wake of CTVglobemedia's pending acquisition of the CHUM group.

On June 8, 2007, the CRTC announced its approval of CTVglobemedia's purchase of CHUM Limited, but added a condition that CTVglobemedia must sell off CHUM's Citytv stations to another buyer while keeping the A-Channel stations ( including CKNX ), in effect cancelling the planned sale of A-Channel to Rogers Media.

On February 25, 2009, CTV announced that, given the ongoing structural problems facing the conventional television sector in Canada and the current global economic crisis, it will not be applying to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) for renewal of the licences of CKNX-TV and its sister station CHWI-TV in Wheatley / Windsor.

On April 30, 2009, Shaw Communications announced it will purchase CKNX, CHWI and CKX in Brandon, Manitoba for a dollar each from CTVgm, pending CRTC approval.

The CRTC later announced its approval of CTVglobemedia's purchase of CHUM Limited, but it added a condition that CTVglobemedia must sell off CHUM's Citytv stations to another buyer.

On February 25, 2009, CTV announced that, given the ongoing structural problems facing the conventional television sector in Canada and the current global economic crisis, it will not be applying to the CRTC for renewal of the licences of CHWI-TV, CKNX-TV and CKX-TV.

On April 30, 2009, Shaw Communications announced that it would purchase CHWI-TV, CKNX-TV, and CKX-TV for one dollar each from CTV, pending CRTC approval.

On July 6, after the CRTC announced policy changes to increase funding for small-market TV stations ( including the likely implementation of carriage fees ), CTV said it would " review " its decision to close CHWI.

The sale of the company's broadcasting arm to Shaw Communications closed on October 27, 2010, after CRTC approval for the sale was announced on October 22 ; those assets are now collectively known as Shaw Media.

At the same time it announced it had agreed to a recapitalization transaction with some of its lenders, which will likely require the approval of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ).

In February 2010, the company announced an agreement with Shaw Communications whereby the latter company would buy an 80 % voting interest, and 20 % equity interest, in the restructured entity, pending approvals from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) and others.

The CRTC argues that allowing free trade in television stations would overwhelm the smaller Canadian market, preventing it from upholding its responsibility to foster a national conversation.

* Milestone Radio: In two separate rounds of license hearings in the 1990s, the CRTC rejected applications by Milestone Radio to launch a radio station in Toronto which would have been Canada's first urban music station ; in both cases, the CRTC instead granted licenses to stations that duplicated formats already offered by other stations in the Toronto market.

The CRTC contends that this low level of Canadian content, particularly when compared to the 35 % rule on local radio stations, was necessary because unlicenced U. S. receivers were already flooding into the country, so that enforcing a ban on these receivers would be nearly impossible ( see below ).

The CRTC also added that Bell would be required to offer to wholesale ISPs the same usage insurance plan it sells to retail customers.

The CHUM-Astral service, however, was never launched, and its license expired on June 16, 2007 ; CHUM stated that its business plan was based in part on the expectation that in the interests of Canadian content, the CRTC would have rejected the Sirius and XM applications, approving only the CHUM-Astral service.

However, the CRTC made the deal conditional on CTV divesting itself of Citytv, because they already have CTV O & O stations serving the very same cities ( CFTO-DT Toronto, CIVT-DT Vancouver, CFCN-DT Calgary, CFRN-DT Edmonton, and CKY-DT Winnipeg ) as it would have exceeded the CRTC's concentration of media ownership limits.

The report provided 40 recommendations and 10 suggestions ( for areas outside of federal government jurisdiction ), including legislation amendments that would trigger automatic reviews of a proposed media merger if certain thresholds are reached, and CRTC regulation revisions to ensure that access to the broadcasting system is encouraged and that a diversity of news and information programming is available through these services.

The 1971 CRTC rules ( 30 % Canadian content on Canadian radio ) finally come into full effect and by the end of the 20th century radio stations would have to play 35 % Canadian content.

However, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) said it would only approve CTVglobemedia's purchase of CHUM if it sold off CHUM's Citytv stations instead, while being permitted to keep the A-Channel stations ( including CKVR ).

This was done primarily as a tactic to comply with Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) restrictions on advertising in children's programming: popular imported programming would run a few minutes short due to fewer ads being permitted compared to US stations.

NTV's last public comment on the arrangement, at a CRTC hearing in 2002, was to the effect that it would expire at the end of the 2005-2006 season.

In its decision, however, the CRTC explicitly communicated the expectation that this would exist only as a temporary arrangement, to end as soon as the CBC could afford to directly acquire MCTV's CBC affiliates.

Quebecor management told the CRTC that it would shut the station down, rather than to renew the over the air licence.

In March 2009, paperwork to the CRTC for a one-year renewal of CHCH's licence revealed that the station is projected to lose nearly $ 30 million during the 2010 fiscal year, which begins September 1, 2009 — the station would make $ 41 million, but the profits would be outpaced by costs of $ 69 million.

Canadian cable operators were prohibited from distributing the signal, however, by an October 1986 CRTC decision in response to broadcaster concerns about the " potentially damaging effect of this station by providing Canadian advertisers with access to large amounts of commercial airtime at rates substantially lower than those they would be obliged to pay Canadian television licensees in order to reach the same potential audience.

The CRTC's decision to allow the joint ownership of CJOH and CHRO appeared to contradict its own rationale for forcing CTV to sell the Citytv stations, specifically that a single company could not own two stations, in the same language, based in the same large urban centre – however, even before CTV confirmed it would keep CHRO, the twinstick was approved by the CRTC on the basis of CHRO's financial situation and the stations ' prior common ownership ( until 1997 ).

CHUM released a statement saying that they would be intrigued as to how talktv could be morphed into MTV without violating its CRTC broadcasting licence, and filed a complaint with the CRTC.