Some games were moved to The Score and some games on CBC Country Canada were cut short because of Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) regulations that restricted the channel to only 12. 4 hours of sports per week.

Despite popular perception that the CRTC banned Sirius Canada from broadcasting Howard Stern's program, this is not the case.

Under the Broadcasting Act, a network is defined as " any operation where control over all or any part of the programs or program schedules of one or more broadcasting undertakings is delegated to another undertaking or person " and must be licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ).

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.

In January 2010, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) published an application filed by CHFD to disaffiliate from CTV as of February 28, after not being able to negotiate an acceptable new programming agreement with the network, indicating it had instead reached an expanded program supply agreement with Global.

Since 2000, the program has officially been designated a " documentary series ", with only one or two segments filling an hour-long episode, due to CRTC regulations that count documentaries, but not older-style newsmagazines, as " priority programming ".

When First Choice applied to the CRTC, it estimated that to program major American movies, entertainment specials and Canadian movies and specials, pay for satellite time, and marketing of the channel, it could sell it to the cable companies at a wholesale rate of $ 7. 50 / month.

Even before CKLN resumed scheduled programming in late September 2009, the CRTC expressed concerns over the station's inability to comply with licence requirements during the dispute, such as playing the aforementioned loop for several months in 2009, its failure to properly submit on-air logger tapes, program logs and complete annual financial returns since 2007, and that the CRTC licence for CKLN had been transferred to a third party without authorization.

In 2002, however, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting filed a brief with the CRTC opposing the station's license renewal — FCB took the position that in practice, the agreement was extending well beyond advertising sales and into both program production and news gathering, and thus constituted an illegal de facto local management agreement.

The CRTC program, Department of Computer Science & Engineering focuses on research areas such as Optical Character Recognition, Parallel Processing, Cluster Computer, CodeWitz, Asia Link Project, Cellular Phone & Computer Interfacing, Bangla Computerization, Natural Language Processing etc.

The CRTC program, Department of Physics has numbers of research groups have research activities in areas of Theoretical and Experimental Nuclear Physics, Nonlinear Optics, Thin film Magnetism, Neutron Scattering, Neutron Activation Analysis, Neutron Radiography, Defects in Solids, Semiconductor Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Gravitational Physics and Celestial Mechanics and Theoretical Physics.

The station was licensed by the CRTC in 2001 to program a Dance format as " The Planet.

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.

In 2003, however, at the company's request, the CRTC reviewed the issue of local access to the Internet, found that other Internet service providers had not expanded service to unserved communities, and authorized Northwestel to provide the service, under the SIP program, to any small community that did not already have a local provider.

However, four fairly large communities were allowed to have the cost included under the program, since the CRTC decided the market conditions were favourable in those four locations.

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.

CHUM Limited applied to the CRTC to acquire CKVU Sub Inc. on July 26, 2001 for $ 175 million, with the intention of making it a Citytv station similar to CITY in Toronto, Ontario.

In July 2006, Bell Globemedia ( later called CTVglobemedia ) announced that it would purchase CHUM for an estimated $ 1. 7 billion CAD, included in the sale was Bravo The sale was subject to CRTC approval and was approved in June 2007, with the transaction completed on June 22, 2007.

On April 30, 2010, it was announced that all Corus Québec stations, with the exception of CKRS, will be sold to Cogeco for $ 80 million, pending CRTC approval.

On July 28, 2008, HBG announced that it had sold 12 stations to Newcap Broadcasting, subject to CRTC approval, for a price of $ 18. 95 million.

On July 28, 2008, Newcap Inc. also announced that it had a tentative deal to acquire 12 stations in Ontario from Haliburton Broadcasting Group, subject to CRTC approval, for a price of $ 18. 95 million.

On April 30, 2010, it was announced that Cogeco will acquire all radio stations owned by Corus in Quebec for $ 80 million, pending CRTC approval.

The $ 18 million CAD purchase was approved by the CRTC in 1996.

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.

On January 23, 2012, the CRTC announced it would be eliminating instructional radio stations.

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.

In 2007, CTVglobemedia received Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) approval to acquire CHUM ; while CTV did not originally plan to keep A-Channel, it decided to do so following a CRTC requirement to sell the Citytv system.

While the CBC originally planned to discontinue CBKST's over the air feed on August 31, 2011 ( as the corporation did not originally plan to convert rebroadcasters in mandatory transition markets like Saskatoon to digital ), the CRTC granted the CBC permission to allow transmitters in select mandatory markets, including Saskatoon, to still operate an analog feed until August 31, 2012.

The issue was raised with the CRTC by telecommunications firms and SAIC Canada, and in 1992 a relief plan was approved ( Telecom Decision CRTC 2002-25 ).

* CRTC Telecom Decision CRTC 2002-25: Area code 519 relief plan

Despite widespread opposition against that deal, the known existence of at least four other serious and much less controversial contenders to buy the Radiomédia stations, and numerous allegations to the effect that Corus Entertainment's offer was actually part of a larger plan to prevent any meaningful competition to its new FM talk format ( as Corus seemed to try to weaken and steal listeners from CKAC and not from the increasingly popular CBF-FM, and its sales representatives claimed to clients that they would be better advised to buy advertising at CHMP-FM and not CKAC as they pretended the latter was going to close shortly no matter what would happen ), the deal was approved in January 2005 by the CRTC in the midst of strong rumours that Astral Media would close CKAC if the deal was not approved.

Rawlco planned on changing frequencies for the station to 99. 1 FM, which was formerly the home of CKO-FM-1, but cancelled the plan after the CRTC denied this, and gave 99. 1 to CBLA.

The CRTC accepted this plan but only on an experimental basis that would last three years ; it also blocked a plan to implement quadraphonic broadcasting.

The CRTC approved the plan on August 19, 2010.

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.

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.

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.

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 ".

The CRTC does not directly regulate rates, quality of service issues, or business practices for Internet service providers.

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.

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.

* 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.

Satellite radio poses a more complicated problem for the CRTC.

The CRTC is run by up to 13 full-time ( including the chairman, the vice-chairman of broadcasting, and the vice-chairman of telecommunications ) and six part-time commissioners appointed by the Cabinet for renewable terms of up to five years.

In November 2004, the CBC, in partnership with Standard Broadcasting and Sirius Satellite Radio, applied to the CRTC for a license to introduce satellite radio service to Canada.