The CRTC ultimately decided to relax restrictions on advertising as the funding mechanism.

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.

However, it has decided to maintain the Wingham transmitter as a rebroadcaster of CFPL, pending CRTC approval.

In a policy decision released on October 30, 2008, the CRTC decided that all Category 1 digital services as well as all analog pay and specialty channels would be renamed Category A services, effective September 1, 2011.

In a policy decision released on October 30, 2008, the CRTC decided that all Category 2 services would be renamed Category B services, effective September 1, 2011.

In July 2004, after CHOI's issues with the CRTC started to put the station in danger, he decided to create the " DRX Army ", in reference to the Kiss Army.

In 2008, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) decided to allow Bell Canada to single out P2P traffic for bandwidth throttling between the hours of 4: 30 pm to 2 am.

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.

The final approval, that of the CRTC, was granted on August 16, with the commission noting that it only had jurisdiction over the TV channels owned by MLSE ( the transfer of ownership of which, it decided, posed no major concerns ), and not the broadcast rights associated with MLSE's teams.

Since Canada's transition to digital TV in September 2011, CJMT is now available in Toronto on channel 51, but the CRTC recently approved an application for it to move to channel 40, as that frequency was vacated after the shutdown of CKXT-DT.

On September 28, 2011, Dufferin Communications, the owner of CIRR-FM 103. 9 ( PROUD FM ) applied to the CRTC to move to 88. 1 MHz, formerly held by CKLN-FM, and to increase its transmitter power.

Haliburton applied to the CRTC to move both CHNO and CHYC to FM, which was approved on August 31, 1999.

However, the move was controversial with some of the station's prior listeners, and in July 2006, just seven months after flipping CHNO to the adult hits format, Newcap applied to the CRTC for a new contemporary hit radio station in the Sudbury market.

The station originally transmitted from the CBC's Jarvis Street transmitter site, but as with almost all other radio and television stations in Toronto, approval was given by the CRTC to move the transmitter site to the CN Tower on December 14.

In 2001, the station received CRTC approval to move to the FM dial, retaining its legendary call letters as CKGB-FM but taking on the EZ Rock brand and adult contemporary format, giving the small Timmins radio market its first direct competition, as the Haliburton Broadcasting Group-owned CHMT-FM had launched as adult contemporary / CHR hybrid Mix 93 just a few months before.

This move required Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) approval, the plans for which were filed in 1999 and approved in 2000.

In May 2012, the CBC filed a request with the CRTC to move Windsor's Première Chaîne station CBEF to CBE's former frequency and transmitter, owing to potential issues with the age of the facilities and rust found on its tower in August 2011.

In 2003 the CRTC approved an application by the station to move its transmitter from the SAIT tower at 1, 900 Watts to a CBC tower at 4, 000 Watts.

CBF applied to move to FM and was authorized to do so by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) on July 4, 1997.

The CRTC set August 31, 2011 as the deadline for full power over-the-air television transmitters broadcasting in 28 mandatory markets to move to digital transmission.

The move to 99. 9 FM received CRTC approval on October 14, 2009.

In September 2006, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) approved the application to move this booster signal from 95. 1 FM to 100. 7 FM, which could eventually be spun off into a separate station from 95. 1 FM.

In 1993, the station received CRTC approval to move to the FM band.

In May 2012, the CBC filed with the CRTC, asking permission to move CBEF to CBE's previous transmitter and frequency of 1550 AM at 10, 000 watts, and to establish a low-powered FM rebroadcaster at 98. 3 MHz in Sarnia.

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.

This is an exemption granted by the CRTC to previously licensed companies that continue to meet certain conditions, and does not mean that anybody can simply set up their own small cable company without CRTC approval.

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.

On April 9, 2007, Omni Television owner Rogers Communications applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to purchase all of the A-Channel stations ( including CFPL ), CKX-TV and several cable channels being put up for sale in the wake of CTVglobemedia's pending acquisition of the CHUM group.

However, following a complaint filed by CTV in 2008, the CRTC has tightened up enforcement, issuing a statement that the Super Bowl XLIII standard and high definition broadcasts must be simsubbed for providers within range of CTV's OTA transmitters.

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.

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.

CRTC genre exclusivity restrictions prevented MTV from either bringing its U. S. channel directly into Canada or setting up a homegrown competitor.

Originally to be introduced in 2015, on July 20, 2011, the CRTC has moved up the introduction of the new 873 area code to September 15, 2012.

In 1982, CANCOM proposed adding four additional television stations and additional radio signals, originating in the United States, in order to bring the American " three-plus-one " package to all Canadians that the CRTC had previously accepted the principle of allowing to southern cable companies that picked up signals from nearby United States cities.

Godin wanted to improve the infrastructure of the radio station from the ground up, to prove to the CRTC that CKRG could be capable of broadcasting on the FM frequency once again.

On July 9, 2007 Blackburn Radio was given approval by the CRTC to open up a new country music radio station at FM 92. 7 MHz.

However, a CRTC statement issued in June 2008 indicated that as of that date, only 22 digital transmitters had been fully installed across the entire country, and expressed the regulator's concern that Canada's television broadcasters were not adequately preparing for the shift to digital broadcasting.

In Canada, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ), has set August 31, 2011 as the date that over-the-air analog transmission service will cease in most parts of the country except in Northern Canada.

In January 2011, Dougall Media applied with the CRTC to broadcast its digital signal instead on channel 2, following the digital conversion date.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) has not listed Peterborough as one of its mandatory markets for analogue television shutdown and digital conversion, and therefore CHEX-TV was not required to convert to digital transmissions on the transition date of August 31, 2011.

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.