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.

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 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 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.

It was overturned and there were questions of whether federal politicians should meddle in CRTC decisions.

The CRTC ruling applied to Al Jazeera and not to its English-speaking sister network Al Jazeera English, which was launched two years after the ruling.

The CRTC contends that this low level of Canadian content, particularly when compared to the 35 % rule on local radio stations, was necessary because unlicenced U. S. receivers were already flooding into the country, so that enforcing a ban on these receivers would be nearly impossible ( see below ).

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.

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 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.

The transaction was approved by the CRTC on September 28 and was completed on October 31, 2007.

The sale was approved in late June 2012 by the CRTC and the transaction was officially closed on July 1, 2012, which coincided with the rebranding of the station to Citytv Saskatchewan.

That application was approved by the CRTC on December 10 of that year.

In 2000, a year after the Donovan brothers had taken the company public, Salter Street Films was awarded the broadcast licence for the Independent Film Channel by the CRTC.

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.

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.

After his return to Canada in 1970, Newman was appointed Acting Director of the Broadcast Programs Branch for the Canadian Radio and Television Commission ( CRTC ) and then head of the National Film Board of Canada ( NFB ).

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.

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.

On the telecom side, the CRTC originally regulated only privately held common carriers, such as B. C.

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.

Prelaunch logo of Toronto One. Craig Media was awarded a licence for Toronto 1 ( originally stylized as " Toronto One ") by the CRTC on April 8, 2002 in a non-unanimous and somewhat controversial decision regarding five competing applications for new Toronto-area TV stations.

The station was licensed by the CRTC on May 8, 1986 and went on the air on October 17, 1986 where it was originally branded as the Manitoba Television Network or MTN.

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.

VideoFACT ( as it was originally known ) was created in 1984 with the launch of MuchMusic as a condition of its licence applied by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ).

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.

Six months later, on November 13, 2008, the CBC applied to the CRTC to convert CBE from the AM band to the FM band at 97. 5 FM, to revoke its previous request for CBE-1-FM, and to include a new FM rebroadcaster at Leamington on 91. 9 FM ( which was originally planned for 91. 5 FM but was moved due to conflict with Windsor station CJAM-FM which, until October 2009, was also on 91. 5 ).

The station was originally licensed by the CRTC in 1984.

The station was originally licensed by the CRTC in 1984.

The station originally launched as CJBR in 1947 and changed to its current callsign in the 1990s after receiving CRTC approval to broadcast at 101. 5 MHz.

In July 2008, Rogers filed a new application with the CRTC to launch a separate 24-hour news station to be known as " CityNews Toronto ".

The deal closed on April 1, 2011, after the CRTC approved the sale on March 7, 2011the new company became known as Bell Media.

In 1987 the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) awarded a licence to the CBC, and on July 31, 1989, CBC News Network ( then known as CBC Newsworld ) began broadcasting.

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.

The deal closed on April 1, 2011, after the CRTC approved the sale on March 7, 2011the new company became known as Bell Media.

The sale of the company's broadcasting arm to Shaw Communications closed on October 27, 2010, after CRTC approval for the sale was announced on October 22 ; those assets are now collectively known as Shaw Media.

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 ".

In June 2001, CHUM Limited was given approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to launch a national category 2 specialty channel known as " The Drive-In Channel ", with programming described as being centred around " Drive-In B movies and series, as well as occasional magazine-style shows focusing on the genre ".

In July 2008, Rogers filed an application with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to launch a separate 24-hour news station to be affiliated with Citytv Toronto, and to be known as CityNews ( Toronto ).

It is also known as the 6845 CRTC or the CRTC6845, meaning " cathode ray tube controller ".

The Weather Network was licensed by the CRTC on December 1, 1987 and began broadcasting on September 1, 1988 as WeatherNow, under the ownership of engineering firm Lavalin Inc. ( now known as SNC-Lavalin ) and Landmark Communications.

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.

In June 2001, CHUM Limited was given approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to launch a national category 2 specialty channel known as Relationship Television, a channel described as being " devoted exclusively to programming related to love, romance, marriage, relationship-themed game shows, sexuality and gender issues, family planning, relationship breakdown and magazine style programming featuring romantic vacation resorts.

In December 2000, MLSE was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) for a category 2 digital specialty channel license tentatively known as Raptors Basketball Channel, a channel described as being devoted primarily to the Toronto Raptors basketball club and the National Basketball Association ( NBA ), with additional programming related to other aspects of basketball.

In July 2008, Rogers filed an application with the CRTC to launch a separate 24-hour news station to be affiliated with Citytv Toronto, and to be known as CityNews Toronto.

Licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) in 1987, Le Canal Famille launched on September 1, 1988 as a replacement to the youth channel TVJQ ( Télévision des Jeunes du Québec, otherwise known simply as Télé des Jeunes ).

Initially, as required by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ), the channel carried no commercials, except for promotional messages, interstitial programs ( such as help segments known as R-Force ( pronounced like " Air Force ")), as well as public service announcements.

In November 2000, Craig Broadcast Systems Inc. ( later known as Craig Media ) was granted a television broadcast licence by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) for a specialty service called Music 5 that would consist of five separate music video channels focused on a specific musical genre ; dance, pop, urban, R & B and " hot hits ".