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.

Stirling and the CRTC finally reached a compromise in August 1985 whereas CJOM was granted an " experimental " licence which would enable the station to play more harder-edged rock and pop music with higher repetition, although a proposal to reduce the station's Canadian Content quotient to 5 % from 15 % was denied.

In 1977, the station was forced by the CRTC to opt between the two languages, and after considering becoming a French-language station, it finally reverted back to English full-time.

* 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.

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 original Citytv station, granted callsign CITY-TV by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ), was founded in Toronto in 1972 and began broadcasting for the first time on September 28 under the ownership of Channel Seventy-Nine Ltd ; CHUM Limited acquired the station in 1981.

On June 4, 2001, Frank Rogers, on behalf of a company to be incorporated, was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to launch a national English-language Category 2 specialty television service called The High School Television Network, described as " devoted to the lifestyles of high school students across Canada.

In November 2000, NetStar Communications Inc. ( later renamed CTV Specialty Television Inc .) was granted approval for a television broadcasting licence by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) for a national English-language Category 1 specialty television service called Women ’ s Sports Network, described as a service to be " consisting exclusively of sports programming featuring female athletes and participants.

In November 2000, Alliance Atlantis ( AAC ) was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to launch BBC Kids, described as " a national English-language Category 2 specialty television service devoted to top-quality educational and entertaining programming for children and youth ( ages 2-17 ).

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

Original owners, Alliance Atlantis ( AAC ), were granted a broadcast licence for BBC Canada by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) in November 2000.

In November 2000, Showcase Television Inc., a division of Alliance Atlantis, was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to launch a television channel called Action Television, described as " a national English-language Category 2 specialty television service devoted to action movies and series primarily driven by a fast-paced fictional plot featuring car chases, explosions, special effects, or martial arts.

In November 2000, Showcase Television Inc., a division of Alliance Atlantis, was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to launch a television channel called Romance Television, described as " a national English-language Category 2 specialty television service devoted to romance.

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.

In 1960, the Board of Broadcast Governors, predecessor to the CRTC, granted licenses for commercial stations in order to provide an alternative to CBC.

In June 1994, Linda Rankin, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated, ( later incorporated as Lifestyle Television ( 1994 ) Limited, principally owned by Moffat Communications ) was granted a television broadcasting licence from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to operate a channel called Lifestyle Television, described as offering " information and entertainment programming of particular interest to women.

Also that year, the CRTC granted Radio-Québec permission to show commercials during some of its programming, initially for a two-year trial run.

In September 1996, CTV Television Network Ltd. ( a division of CTV ) was granted a broadcast licence by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) for CTV N1, a national English language specialty television service that will broadcast " news, weather and sports reports, as well as business, consumer and lifestyle information ," in a ' headline news ' format on a 15 minute news wheel.

In November 2000, Global Television Network Inc. ( then owned by Canwest ) was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to launch a national English-language Category 2 specialty television service called Pop TV, described as " featuring classic programs from the beginnings of television.

In November 2000, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) granted approval to former NHL executive Jim Gregory on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated ( formed later as The NHL Network Inc .) to launch The Hockey Channel, described as " a national English-language Category 2 specialty television dedicated exclusively to all aspects of the game of hockey ".

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.

In November 2000, a partnership between Stornoway Communications and Cogeco was granted a category 1 television broadcasting licence from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) called The Issues Channel, described as " a national English-language specialty television service dedicated to public affairs programming, that will examine matters of public interest and concern in an engaging format.

In November 2000, a partnership between Stornoway Communications and Cogeco called Stornoway Communications Limited Partnership, was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to launch a television channel called The Dance Channel, described as " a national English-language Category 2 specialty television service devoted to all aspects of dance.

In November 2000, CTV Inc. was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to launch Animal Planet, a service described as being " broadly based on family entertainment that will combine high-quality Canadian programming and attractive series and documentaries from Animal Planet in the United States.

The station was later sold to RNC Media, but instead of renewing its license the CRTC issued RNC a license to launch a new radio station on the same frequency.

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.

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.

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 the months that followed the election, the ADQ benefited from anger over the decision of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) not to renew the license of Quebec City radio station CHOI-FM.

On January 30, 2007, CRTC approved the application for the license until August 31, 2013.

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.

The station was unable to come to agreement with CTV to continue operating as an affiliate and filed an application to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to remove the CTV affiliation requirement from their license and to operate as a Global affiliate ( CTV is now carried in the market on digital cable via CTV Toronto ).

In March 2010, CKPR announced it was unable to come to an agreement with CBC to continue to operate as an affiliate, and filed an application with the CRTC to remove the CBC affiliation requirement from their license.

On July 17, 2012, the CRTC approved CBC's application to revoke CBKST's license, effective August 1, 2012.

The CRTC places responsibilities upon campus radio stations in Canada through the use of conditions of license that radio stations must follow in order to keep broadcasting.

Humber is the only GTA College with a CRTC campus instructional license and fully operational radio station, Radio Humber FM 96. 9.

On January 11, 2012, Shaw Media filed a license application with the CRTC for a Category B digital-only specialty service that will serve as a British Columbia-focused news channel operated by and utilizing news staff from Global BC.

Regulated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ), CJRT's license is categorized under " other special FM ", a third sector of Canadian radio broadcasting that provides to Canadians a style of radio that is an alternative to that available from the CBC or private commercial stations.

In September 1981, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) held a hearing in Hull, Quebec to license Canada's first pay-television networks.

CKVI was the first high school radio station to be granted a broadcasting license by the CRTC.

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.

On January 31, 2005, the CRTC disallowed the agreement, ruling in its license renewals for the four stations that the agreement must be terminated no later than May 31 of that year.

The CRTC, wary of potential " license trafficking ," accepted the sale on the grounds that Haliburton had been losing money with CHNO, and would reinvest the proceeds into its contemporaneous purchase of CKLP in Parry Sound.

On March 17, 2005, the CRTC published notice of an application Haliburton filed in 2004 to launch an FM country station in North Bay, This license was also subsequently granted, and the station launched in 2006.