The submission recommends a judicial review of alleged CRTC corruption related to the Fund which he contends has unjustly enriched cable companies.

Some stations – especially those playing formats where there may be a limited number of Canadian recordings suitable for airplay, such as classical, jazz or oldies, may be allowed by the CRTC to meet Canadian content targets as low as 20 per cent.

Department of Architecture Center for Research, Testing, and Consultancy ( CRTC ) focuses on research areas such as building planning and design, interior design, landscape development, urban planning and urban renewal, conservation of historical sites and monuments, architecture of Bengal region, sustainable design, low cost housing etc.

The Service Improvement Plan ( SIP ) is a program mandated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to provide a defined level of basic telephone service to all Canadians, other than those so isolated that it is costly and impractical to reach.

The CRTC also found that Northwestel's operating area was entirely a high-cost serving area, and that supplementary funding may be required to raise the level of phone service and to maintain that service in the face of competition.

Unlike in the United States, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) and Industry Canada have not set any requirement for maintaining AMPS service in Canada.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC, French: Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes ) is a public organisation in Canada with mandate as a regulatory agency for broadcasting and telecommunications.

The CRTC was originally known as the Canadian Radio-Television Commission.

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 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.

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.

In many cases, such as the cabinet-directed prohibition on foreign ownership for broadcasters and the legislated principle of the predominance of Canadian content, these acts and orders often leave the CRTC less room to change policy than critics sometimes suggest, and the result is that the commission is often the lightning rod for policy criticism that could arguably be better directed at the government itself.

Complaints against broadcasters, such as concerns around offensive programming, are dealt with by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council ( CBSC ), an independent broadcast industry association, rather than by the CRTC, although CBSC decisions can be appealed to the CRTC if necessary.

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.

In May 2011, in response to the increase presence of Over-the-Top ( OTT ) programming, the CRTC put a call out to the public to provide input on the impact OTT programming is having on Canadian content and existing broadcasting subscriptions through satellite and cable.

The evidence was inconclusive, suggesting that an increased availability of OTT options is not having a negative impact on the availability or diversity of Canadian content, one of the key policy mandates of the CRTC, nor are there signs that there has been a significant decline of televisions subscriptions through cable or satellite.

* Satellite radio: In June 2005, the CRTC outraged some Canadian cultural nationalists ( such as the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting ) and labour unions by licencing two companies, Canadian Satellite Radio and Sirius Canada to offer satellite radio services in Canada.

The two companies are in partnership with American firms XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio respectively, and in accordance with the CRTC decision will only need to offer ten percent Canadian content.

* 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.

* CBC Digital Archives-Ruling the Airwaves: The CRTC and Canadian Content

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 >

In 2003, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) rejected a Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association ( CCTA ) application to bring Fox News to Canada because Fox News U. S. and Global Television were planning to create Fox News Canada ( a combination of U. S. and Canadian news ).

In a major May 1999 decision on " New Media ", the CRTC held that under the Broadcasting Act the CRTC had jurisdiction over certain content communicated over the internet including audio and video, but excluding content that is primarily alphanumeric such as emails and most webpages.

The CMG questioned whether, with its limited Canadian news content, the CBC was meeting its legal requirements under the Broadcasting Act and its CRTC licences.

Canadian viewers receive almost identical English-language programming to the channel that American viewers watch, but with added Canadian content to meet CRTC requirements.

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.

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.

Canadian content ( abbreviated CanCon, cancon or can-con ) refers to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) requirements that radio and television broadcasters ( including cable and satellite specialty channels ) must air a certain percentage of content that was at least partly written, produced, presented, or otherwise contributed to by persons from Canada.

Following an extensive public hearing process organised by the CRTC, the MAPL system, created by Stan Klees ( co-creator of the Juno Award ), was adopted in 1971 to define and identify Canadian content in pieces of music for the purposes of increasing exposure of Canadian music on Canadian radio through content regulations governing a percentage ( 25 %) of airplay to be devoted to Canadian music.

This practice is now prevented by CRTC regulations stipulating CanCon percentages must be met between 6 am and 6 pm, rather than allowing a station to save all their Canadian content for off-peak hours.

His first post upon returning to his home country was an advisory position with the Canadian Radio and Television Commission ( CRTC ) in Ottawa, where he battled Canada's private broadcasters, especially CTV, over new Canadian content regulations.

However, the CRTC ruled in favor of Telus in a decision requiring Bell and other media companies to allow other competing wireless providers access to its content, and not exclusively tie it to their own service ( as they had attempted to do with TSN Mobile TV ).

Since BBC Canada is licensed as a Canadian channel, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's ( CRTC ) broadcasting regulations require that it carry a quota of Canadian content.

It works closely with other regional, national, and international radio organizations to: provide developmental materials and networking services to its members, represent the interests of the sector to government ( particularly the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC )) and other agencies, and promote public awareness and appreciation for community-oriented radio in Canada.

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.

The history of V goes back to 1968, when the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) first expressed interest in the establishment of a third French-language commercial television service in the province of Quebec along with the existing Télévision de Radio-Canada and the loose association of independent stations that eventually became TVA.

In 1972, the CRTC said it was prepared to receive licence applications in order to authorize a third commercial television service in Quebec, although it was not until 1974 when the CRTC granted licences to Télé Inter-Cité Québec Ltée.

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.

In 1999, Radio-Canada applied to the CRTC for a license to launch a third all-news station in Montreal, on the 690 AM frequency CBF had surrendered in 1997 when it moved to FM.

Both companies looked to expand their national presence, and both submitted a bid when the CRTC issued a call for applications for a new TV licence in Victoria.

CKVU's history dates back to 1975, when Western Approaches Ltd. was awarded the third licence for a Vancouver television station by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ).

Ironically, this came just after the CRTC had granted it the right to charge seven cents per subscriber when carried on basic cable, whereas it was previously made available to these viewers free of charge ; the new charge had been expected to help sustain the channel's live programming.

Over 10 years later, another attempt at an arts-based channel was proposed when CHUM Limited applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) for Bravo.

The licence, when issued, was to expire on August 31, 2008 — as of that date, however, no renewal application had been filed with the CRTC.

The process that led to the launch of CIVT began when Rogers Communications and CanWest Global Communications filed separate applications with the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ), in August 1995 and January 1996 respectively, to launch new television stations in the Vancouver / Victoria market.

The company had received CRTC approval to convert CHNO, CHYC, CKOY, CHYK, CHOH and CKAP to the FM band as well, although the conversions were still in progress when the stations were sold to Haliburton.

TBS was removed from the Canadian market when it moved to a cable only service in the US, as this would have required CRTC approval to be carried on Canadian cable.

The TCTV service ended when the CRTC approved TVA for a national network license in 1998.

CHBC's similar disaffiliation was approved by the CRTC on February 28, 2005, and disaffiliated on February 27, 2006 to join the CH system ( although CHBC did not use the CH brand on-air, but rather its call letters, as it had done throughout its existence, until September 7, 2007, when it began using the E!

A first attempt failed when TVA ( Quebecor ) and RNC Media were refused permission by the CRTC in June 2003 to buy the stations, because of ownership concentration concerns.

In 1970, EastLink was established in Amherst, Nova Scotia, when it was issued one of the first cable licences granted by the CRTC.

A new transmitter in Edmonton was licensed by the CRTC in 2008, and became the CFWE network's primary station when it launched in July 2009.