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.

CITY-TV of Toronto ( according to its own website and annual reports ) owes its financial success as an independent TV station to this CRTC must-carry rule.

During this period, the CRTC required the station to file monthly progress reports on its efforts to improve its licensing compliance.

This was denied in 1974 because the commission felt campus stations should not be commercial ventures, though other reports indicate that broadcast applications during this period were turned down by the CRTC because the station lacked financial stability.

Many thousands of the station's fans marched in the streets and on Parliament Hill against the decision, and the parent company of CHOI, Genex Corp., appealed the CRTC decision unsuccessfully to the Federal Court of Canada.

The Windsor Star reported on March 4, 2009 that Windsor City Council, local Members of Provincial Parliament Sandra Pupatello and Dwight Duncan, and federal Members of Parliament Brian Masse and Joe Comartin began lobbying the CRTC and CTVglobemedia not to shut down CHWI, as it is the only local privately-owned television station in Windsor.

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.

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 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.

* 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.

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

Sirius Canada in fact initially chose not to air Stern based on the possibility of a future issue with the CRTC, although the company reversed its decision and began offering Howard Stern in 2006.

* Bell Canada usage-based billing: On October 28, 2010, the CRTC handed down its final decision on how wholesale customers can be billed by large network owners.

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 2004, after a Fox U. S. executive said there were no plans to create the combined channel, the CRTC approved an application to bring Fox News to Canada.

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

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.

In Canada, cable operators that offer FM cable services are required by the CRTC to distribute all locally available AM stations in this manner.

In May 2007, the CRTC set August 31, 2011 as the deadline for digital conversion in Canada.

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.

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.

Broadcasting and telecommunications in Canada are regulated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ), an independent governing agency that aims to serve the needs and interests of citizens, industries, interest groups and the government.

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.

The report provided 40 recommendations and 10 suggestions ( for areas outside of federal government jurisdiction ), including legislation amendments that would trigger automatic reviews of a proposed media merger if certain thresholds are reached, and CRTC regulation revisions to ensure that access to the broadcasting system is encouraged and that a diversity of news and information programming is available through these services.

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.

In his testimony, Canwest president Leonard Asper blamed the current rules for the poor financial condition of Canada's broadcast television stations, a position which has subsequently been adopted and addressed through rule changes by the CRTC and FCC.

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.

On November 24, 2000 Global Television Network Inc., a subsidiary of Canwest, was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to launch a national English-language Category 2 specialty television service called Extreme Sports, described as " featuring the best of " off-beat " sports programming that will give Canadians the opportunity to live vicariously through the ultimate high associated with such extreme pastimes as high altitude sky diving, cliff diving, white water rafting, and mountain climbing.

On November 24, 2000, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) granted Craig Media, through its subsidiary Craig Broadcast Systems Inc., permission to launch a national category 2 digital specialty channel tentatively known as Retro ; a channel described as being " devoted to classic television programming ".

The RANDR extension exports its CRTC geometry in the Xinerama protocol, as well as through its own protocol.

In 1972, because of new foreign ownership guidelines implemented by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ), CFCF-TV ( owned by General Electric Canada through Canadian Marconi / The General Electric Company ( UK ), Ltd .) and its sister stations CFCF-AM, CFQR-FM and CFCX-SW were sold to computer and telecommunications company Multiple Access Ltd., owned by the Bronfman family.

In September 1996, Learning and Skills Television of Alberta Ltd. ( LSTA ) ( controlled by CHUM Limited through a 60 % interest in the company ) was granted a television broadcasting licence by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) called Canadian Learning Television.

Food Network became one of the more popular foreign cable channels available in Canada, which prompted the creation of a Canadian version of the American service, which would then be able to access ad revenue through commercials, given Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) regulations.

On June 22, 2007, CTVglobemedia became the owner of CFAX and sister stations CHBE-FM and CIVI-TV through its purchase of CHUM Limited, which had been approved by the CRTC on June 8.

* 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.

According to a tweet by Industry Minister Tony Clement, unless the CRTC reverses this decision, the government will use its override power to reverse the decision.

In 1958, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's government passed a new Broadcasting Act, establishing the Board of Broadcast Governors ( forerunner to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, or CRTC ) as the governing body of Canadian broadcasting, thus ending the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's ( CBC ) dual role as regulator and broadcaster.

In 1975, Juneau left the CRTC to accept an appointment by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to the cabinet as Minister of Communications.

On February 7, 2008, Mahar issued a press release covered by Reuters which was critical of Prime Minister Stephen Harper for his alleged failure to act on information respecting related activities by the CRTC and corporations in the affair.