However, the CRTC is also sometimes erroneously criticized for CBSC decisions — for example, the CRTC was erroneously criticized for the CBSC's decisions pertaining to the airing of Howard Stern's terrestrial radio show in Canada in the late 1990s, as well as the CBSC's controversial ruling on the Dire Straits song " Money for Nothing ".

While landline and mobile telephone providers must also be majority-owned by Canadians under the federal Telecommunications Act, the CRTC is not responsible for enforcement of this provision.

In fact, the commission does not require licences at all for telephone companies, and CRTC approval is therefore not generally required for the sale of a telephone company, unless said company also owns a broadcast licence.

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

It has also tried to protect Canadian culture by setting legal minimums on Canadian content in many media using bodies like the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ).< ref >

After having L-band DAB for several years, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) have also looked at the use of HD Radio, given its gradual progress in the neighbouring U. S. The CBC began HD Radio testing in September 2006, focusing on transmissions from Toronto and Peterborough, Ontario.

In addition to British programs, the channel also broadcast Canadian programs, as per required by the CRTC.

In September 2007, Rogers has also applied to the CRTC to acquire 20 per cent of CablePulse 24, a local news channel in Toronto which was previously paired with Citytv ( both stations were previously owned by CHUM Limited ) but was retained by CTVglobemedia in the June 8 licence approval.

In September 2007, Rogers has also applied to the CRTC to acquire 20 per cent of CablePulse 24, a local news channel in Toronto which was previously paired with Citytv ( both stations were previously owned by CHUM Limited ) but was retained by CTVglobemedia in the June 8 licence approval.

Simultaneous substitution ( known also as simsubbing or signal substitution ) is a practice mandated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) requiring Canadian cable, direct broadcast satellite and multichannel multipoint distribution service television distribution companies to substitute the signal of a foreign or non-local television station with the signal of a local or regional over-the-air station when the two stations are airing identical programming simultaneously.

On June 17, 2011, Bell also filed an application with the CRTC and Industry Canada to establish additional repeaters for CKVR-DT to expand its signal farther into the Golden Horseshoe area ; on UHF 42 in Fonthill, serving Niagara Falls, Fort Erie, and St. Catharines, and a repeater on UHF 35 on CHCH-DT's Tower, serving Hamilton, Oakville, Haldimand County, Caledonia, Brantford, Milton, and Cambridge.

The celebration was not timed to any particular anniversary but rather to a CRTC review of regulations for local TV stations also held that month.

In addition, Astral partnered with CHUM Limited in an application for a terrestrial digital subscription service which was also licensed by the CRTC at the same time as the satellite radio services.

However, the CRTC decision did not address the situation regarding WLPC-LP in Detroit, which also broadcast its analog signal on channel 26 ( an unprotected frequency ); as a result, that station was off the air during much of 2011, not returning to air until November 2011 as WLPC-LD, on digital channel 40.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) also ordered strict controls on CHRO's programming, so that Baton could not gain unfair audience advantage in Ottawa by airing shows at different times on CHRO and CJOH.

It was also under the scrutiny of the CRTC at that time for a lack of local programming.

Two Canadian broadcasting firms, Maclean Hunter Ltd. ( which owned CTV station CFCN-TV in Calgary ), and Baton Broadcasting ( owners of Toronto's CTV affiliate CFTO-TV ), made a joint offer to purchase the stations, but were turned down by the CRTC, as Maclean-Hunter owned CFCO in Chatham, Ontario ( also in the Windsor-Detroit market ), and neither company could agree which radio stations to sell ( CFCO or CKLW-AM-FM ).

The sale, also needing approval from the CRTC, was approved on June 8, 2007, with the transaction completed on June 22.

The lawyers also pleaded that the CRTC could have used more moderate methods to punish the station, such as imposing a fine.

The sale also included the transmitter sites and equipment in Kahnawake, which were previously used for CINF and CINW, before the stations closed down in January 2010 ; the sale excluded the licenses, as they were submitted to the CRTC for cancellation.

For many years it also owned a number of radio stations and specialty television services ; these assets were later spun off into Corus Entertainment in an effort to satisfy a now-repealed CRTC policy discouraging cross-ownership of cablesystems and specialty services.

It is also known as the 6845 CRTC or the CRTC6845, meaning " cathode ray tube controller ".

This system was partially approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) on February 28, 2007, with conditions ; in addition, the CBC and Bell ExpressVu also applied to the CRTC for their own emergency services.

The CRTC regulates all Canadian broadcasting and telecommunications activities and enforces rules it creates to carry out the policies assigned to it ; the best-known of these is probably the Canadian content rules.

In 1976, jurisdiction over telecommunications services, most of which were then delivered by monopoly common carriers ( for example, telephone companies ), was transferred to it from the Canadian Transport Commission although the abbreviation CRTC remained the same.

The CRTC reports to the Parliament of Canada through the Minister of Canadian Heritage, which is responsible for the Broadcasting Act, and has an informal relationship with Industry Canada, which is responsible for the Telecommunications Act.

The CRTC is sometimes blamed for the current state of the mobile phone industry in Canada, in which there are only three national mobile network operators – Bell Mobility, Telus Mobility, and Rogers Wireless – as well as a handful of MVNOs operating on these networks.

* 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.

* CHOI-FM: The CRTC announced it would not renew the licence of the popular CHOI-FM radio station in Quebec City, after having previously sanctioned the station for failing to uphold its promise of performance and then, during the years following, receiving about 50 complaints about offensive behaviour by radio jockeys which similarly contravened CRTC rules on broadcast hate speech.

The CRTC ruling applied to Al Jazeera and not to its English-speaking sister network Al Jazeera English, which was launched two years after the ruling.

* 2008 Ottawa radio licences: On November 21, 2008, federal Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore issued a statement calling on the CRTC to review its approval of two new radio stations, Frank Torres ' CIDG-FM and Astral Media's CJOT-FM, which it had licensed in August 2008 to serve the Ottawa-Gatineau radio market.

Bell appealed both requirements, citing that the rules do not apply to cable companies and that they constituted proactive rate regulation by the CRTC, which goes against government official policy direction that the regulator only intervene in markets after a competitive problem has been proven.

a state regulatory body called Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji ( The National Radio and Television Committee ), which is similar to CRTC in Canada.

At CRTC hearings in 2007 on the future direction of regulatory policy for television, broadcasters proposed a number of strategies, including funding digital conversion by eliminating restrictions on the amount of advertising that television broadcasters are permitted to air, allowing terrestrial broadcasters to charge cable viewers a subscription fee similar to that already charged by cable specialty channels, permitting license fees similar to those which fund the BBC in the United Kingdom, or eliminating terrestrial television broadcasting entirely and moving to an exclusively cable-based distribution model.

This significant decline from over 2000 just a few years ago is attributable both to major cable companies acquiring smaller distributors and to a recent change in CRTC rules by which independent cable operators with fewer than 2, 000 subscribers are no longer required to operate under full CRTC licences.

Although this is sometimes controversial, Canadian cable companies are required by the CRTC to practise simultaneous substitution when a Canadian channel and a non-Canadian channel ( which is usually American ) are airing the same program at the same time.

AM radio stations have the additional protection that cable companies which offer cable FM services are required by the CRTC to distribute all locally available AM stations through conversion to a cable FM signal, but cable FM only accounts for a small percentage of radio listeners in Canada.

These services, which were approved by the CRTC on June 16, 2005, were Canada's first official satellite radio services, although a small grey market already existed for American satellite radio receivers.

The sale was approved in late June 2012 by the CRTC and the transaction was officially closed on July 1, 2012, which coincided with the rebranding of the station to Citytv Saskatchewan.

The channel still airs the few arts-related series aired by Bravo USA ( such as Inside the Actors Studio and Work of Art ), but due to Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) regulations which require the channel to still air programming related to arts, Bravo Canada does not air the vast majority of the U. S. channel's reality seriesmost of them have been picked up by other Canadian specialty channels.

The transaction required CRTC approval, which was granted on April 29, 2011.

The takeover required approval from two regulatory bodies, the Competition Bureau, which approved the transaction on March 2, and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ), which held a public hearing beginning April 30, 2007 in Gatineau.

120pxAt a subsequent February 1994 public hearing, the CRTC reviewed a total of seven applications for music channels, comprising five country music channels, MuchMoreMusic, and CHUM's MusiquExtra, which was to be a French-language adult contemporary counterpart.