Although the CRTC's policy regarding HD simultaneous substitutions do not require them to be applied if the quality of the Canadian feed is not equal or better than the US feed, there have been instances in which inferior Canadian feeds were substituted over higher-quality US feeds.

Due to the CRTC's rules at the time on concentration of media ownership, Ricard's radio stations continued to operate as a separate corporation from Ricard's MCTV holdings, although they were later merged through Mid-Canada Radio in 1985.

In the early 1970s, he was the architect of the CRTC's Canadian content regulations that require a certain percentage of radio and television time to be devoted to programming ( or music in the case of radio ) produced in Canada.

CHNO in Sudbury was an AM oldies station when Haliburton acquired it from Pelmorex ; a stipulation in the CRTC's approval of the transaction allowed it to move to FM.

They also argue that satellite radio will boost Canadian culture by giving vital exposure to independent artists, instead of concentrating just on the country's stars, and point to the CRTC's successful extraction of promises to program 10 % Canadian content on satellite services already operational in the United States as important concessions.

Some observers argued that this influenced the CRTC's June 2005 decision to ease Canadian content restrictions on satellite radio ( see above ).

However, since then, CIBK-FM in Calgary, CFBT-FM in Vancouver, CKEY-FM in Niagara Falls, CKBT-FM in Kitchener, CIHT-FM in Ottawa, and CHBN in Edmonton, have evolved to mainstream Top 40 due to the lack of R & B, hip hop and / or dance product by Canadian acts being released and the pressure to follow the CRTC's guideline on Canadian content music quotas.

Contrary to some initial expectations, CBC Radio 2 and Espace musique were not included, at least in part because, as their terrestrial CRTC licences allow nearly 80 % of " special interest " ( i. e. classical, jazz ) music to be foreign, they would not be in compliance with the CRTC's mandate that Canadian-produced satellite radio channels carry 85 per cent Canadian content.

* Fox News: Until 2004, the CRTC's apparent reluctance to grant a digital licence to Fox News under the same policy which made it difficult for RAI to enter the country-same-genre competition from foreign services-had angered many conservative Canadians, who believed the network was deliberately being kept out due to its perceived conservative bias, particularly given the long-standing availability of services such as CNN and BBC World in Canada.

In turn, it says, any program supply agreement with Global would automatically become void, as that network would also apply for its own station in the CRTC's ensuing call for applications.

As a condition of this approval, Rogers had to sell CHNU and CIIT in Winnipeg due to the CRTC's restrictions on owning multiple television stations broadcasting in the same language in a single market.

On April 18, 2011, in his inaugural television broadcast on Canada's Sun News Network ( also published in the pages of its sister newspaper outlet ) conservative columnist Ezra Levant claimed the CRTC's decision on CKLN was just another oppressive example of arbitrary government bureaucracy and interference into the lives and businesses of ordinary Canadians.

The deal still awaits regulatory approval from both the CRTC and the Competition Bureauas Bell and Astral may be required to divest radio stations in certain markets ( such as Toronto and Vancouver ) in order to comply with the CRTC's ownership limits.

CTV said that with the CRTC's decision to bar broadcasters from charging cable systems to carry their stations ( similar to retransmission consent regulations in the United States ), CHWI and CKNX-TV — the two smallest stations in the A system — were no longer viable.

The planned language and format change is intended to take advantage of CKAC's recent switch from French sports talk to traffic information, and to satisfy the CRTC's ownership caps for Bell's planned acquisition of Astral Mediaas Astral already owns the maximum number of English-language stations that one company can own in the market.

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The following list comes from the CRTC's media ownership charts as of July 31, 2008.

On August 21, 2000, after five interventions from established broadcasters, the CRTC turned down Pachul's application, on the grounds that it did not meet with the CRTC's LPTV policy, but Pachul alleged that the CRTC was simply protecting established corporate broadcasters who had already failed in their responsibility to provide programming of community interest.

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 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 ).

It is often believed that this high power was the result of a clerical error by the CRTC, but that organization did not exist at the time as radio was still regulated by the CRTC's predecessor, the Board of Broadcast Governors, and regulations limiting effective radiated power to 100, 000 watts on FM, which came into force that same year, do not apply to stations which had already received approval for a higher power.

Due to the CRTC's 1994 denial, he also elected to add a second AM transmitter ( on the same frequency ), and moved one transmitter to each residence building.

Provisions in these two acts, along with less-formal instructions issued by the federal cabinet known as orders-in-council, represent the bulk of the CRTC's jurisdiction.

" In contrast to the CRTC's uncontrolled distribution of telephone number lists, the Australian system consists of a " List Washing Service ", precisely as proposed by the minority opinion which was disregarded by the CRTC.

The CRTC's decision to expire registrations is regarded by citizens ' rights groups as a technical shortcoming that adds unnecessary operational cost and complexity to the system, as well as limiting registrants ' freedom to express their wishes.

Both stations were previously owned by CHUM Limited, but CTVglobemedia retained ownership of CP24 following the CRTC's approval of the CHUM purchase.

This effort was backed by Rogers Communications, who sponsored RAI's application to get on the CRTC's approved list.

Following unprecedented foreign led and domestic political interference with the CRTC's quasi-judicial independent regulatory process, within 6 months of its original decision, an abrupt CRTC " review " of its policy on third-language foreign services determined to drop virtually all restrictions and adopt a new " open entry " approach to foreign controlled " third language " ( non-English, non-French ) channels.

The CRTC's decision also imposed a condition of licence on the service requiring it to be distributed on a commercial-free basis, a condition Knowledge Network Corporation asked for.

This has been grandfathered into the CRTC's current policy, which has required most newer large-market " twinsticks " to maintain separate programming and news content on both component stations.

* The CRTC's Website on Telemarketing

On August 10, 2004, the station staged a protest against the CRTC's decision on Parliament Hill in Ottawa where 5, 000 Quebec fans of the station went to the country's capital to demonstrate their support for the station.

That night, CTV News at Six replaced CityNews at Six, which had remained in place since the channel began broadcasting in 1998, critics had speculated that the latter change was due to the CRTC's approval of Citytv Toronto planning on launching CityNews Channel.

On February 11, the station was granted a temporary stay, allowing it to remain on the air pending the Federal Court's decision on whether or not to grant the station leave to appeal the CRTC's order.

Both are to be discussed at the CRTC's hearing on November 7, 2012.

He did note, with the CRTC's usage based oral hearing on July 19, 2011, that they were making efforts to address this lack of competition and criticized Bell Canada and other major companies for their involvement in limiting smaller ISPs.

CTV said that with the CRTC's decision not to allow stations to bill cable systems for carrying them ( similar to retransmission consent regulations in the United States ), CKNX-TV and CHWI-TV — the two smallest stations in the A system — were no longer viable.

The paper took issue with the fact that the CRTC's original notice of hearing was published only in Le Droit, and not in any of the region's local media — thereby giving the francophone community in Northeastern Ontario little notice of either the pending transaction or the deadlines for reviewing and submitting comments regarding the application.

Rogers subsequently announced plans to purchase Vancouver multilingual station CHNM-TV, which the company argues would not violate any ownership restrictions under the CRTC's exemptions for stations broadcasting in different languages.

At the CRTC's public hearings in Winnipeg in May 1974, Canwest noted that the acquisition of KCND would give their new Winnipeg station a $ 2 million advertising base and would save $ 1. 5 million in capital and start-up costs compared to the alternative of launching a completely new station.

Since the channel's inception, ASN / CTV Two Atlantic has not been permitted to solicit local advertising in the Halifax area, due to ( in the CRTC's opinion ) insufficient support for local advertising.

LMAs in Canada cannot be implemented without the CRTC's approval, and in early 2005, the CRTC ordered the agreement to cease.

On August 11, 2004, the station filed an appeal in federal court to extend its licence and to reverse the CRTC's decision.

Both decisions sparked controversy in Toronto, as the CRTC's reasons for passing over an urban-format station ( which Toronto did not have ) in favour of existing radio services were believed to be racist in nature.