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.

The CRTC regulates all Canadian broadcasting and telecommunications activities and enforces rules it creates to carry out the policies assigned to it ; the best-known of these is probably the Canadian content rules.

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.

* 1958 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.

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** CKO ( a now-defunct Canadian all news radio network ) begins broadcasting.

** CKO ( a Canadian national all-news radio network ) suddenly terminates all broadcasting during the newscast at noon ( Eastern time ), due to financial losses ( the station began broadcasting on July 1, 1977 ).

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 ).

The Broadcasting Act of 1991 asserts the Canadian broadcasting system should reflect the diversity of cultures in the country.

In Canada, the term " death stars " was used to describe U. S. Direct Broadcast Satellites capable of broadcasting signals into Canada that were not regulated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

This was in part because, until 1958, it was not only a broadcaster, but the chief regulator of Canadian broadcasting.

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.

An eight-year struggle was finally resolved in favour of Canwest in 1985, making it the first western-based owner of a major Canadian broadcasting entity.

Oscar has made appearances on Canadian public broadcasting advertising " childhood diabetes awareness days " at the Montreal Canadiens hockey games.

In Ann Arbor, Radner began her broadcasting career as the weather girl for college radio station WCBN, but dropped out in her senior year to follow her then-boyfriend, a Canadian sculptor named Jeffrey Rubinoff, to Toronto, Canada.

The Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame, started in 1982, recognizes Canadians in broadcasting or entertainment related industries who have " achieved outstanding success in helping raise industry standards from a material or humanitarian standpoint.

Candidates are nominated annually by Canada's five broadcasting associations and the executive committee of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (" CAB ").

Typically, private broadcasters worldwide compress their material at 256kbit / s ( stereo ) while their counterparts in public broadcasting ( including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Channel Africa, Deutsche Welle, Radio France Internationale, Radio Canada International, Radio Netherlands, the SABC, the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation, and VOA, to cite a few ) use 384 kbit / s ( although the BBC in the United Kingdom uses 128kbit / s for most of its digital radio broadcasts, the exceptions being Radio 3 and Radio 7 being broadcast at 192kbit / s and 80kbit / s respectively ).

* August 31 – Canadian music video channel MuchMusic begins broadcasting.

CFNY-FM, promoted under the branding 102. 1 The Edge, is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 102. 1 FM.

In the broadcasting sector, Canada has a government-funded broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation / Société Radio-Canada, which operates radio and TV networks in English and French.

As with other developed nations, the Canadian economy is dominated by the service industry, which employs about three quarters of Canadians.

Complaints against broadcasters, such as concerns around offensive programming, are dealt with by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council ( CBSC ), an independent broadcast industry association, rather than by the CRTC, although CBSC decisions can be appealed to the CRTC if necessary.

Canada's automobile industry, on the other hand, has been dominated by American firms from its inception, explaining why Canadians use the American spelling of tire ( hence, " Canadian Tire ") and American terminology for the parts of automobiles ( for example, truck instead of lorry, gasoline instead of petrol, trunk instead of boot ).

The industry change to steel shot, arising from the US and Canadian Federal bans on using lead shotshells while hunting migratory wildfowl has also had an impact on reloading shotshells, as the shot bar and powder bushing required on a dedicated shotshell press also must be changed for each hull type reloaded, and are different than what would be used for reloading shotshells with lead shot, further complicating the reloading of shotshells.

However, the Canadian beer industry suffered a second blow when Prohibition began in the U. S. in 1919.

* Six companies ( Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto Dominion Bank, Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and National Bank of Canada ) control the banking industry.

Beginning with Sir John A. Macdonald's National Policy ( 1879 ) and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway ( 1875 – 1885 ) through Northern Ontario and the Canadian Prairies to British Columbia, Ontario manufacturing and industry flourished.

** The Record ( magazine ), a former trade magazine of the Canadian music industry

In the early 20th century, as modern transportation and communication systems developed, Bermuda's tourism industry began to develop and thrive, and Bermuda became a popular destination for a broader spectrum of wealthy US, Canadian, and British tourists.

Music industry representatives formed an advisory committee for the Junos in 1974 which became the Canadian Music Awards Association the following year.

Howe in 1944 to express the " utmost importance to Canada " of the establishment of a Canadian aircraft industry, and UK-based Avro also established in 1944 a company searching for post-war opportunities.

The rise in value has affected the book and book publishing industry, where buyers have been accustomed to fixed prices on the backs of their books: one for the Canadian market and another one for the American market.

In Canada the industry is represented by the Canadian Society of Technical Analysts.

* Nabu Network — the Nabu Network was not a videotex system, but it was an early data communications service which was centrally run by the Canadian cable industry.

The health care industry is a large and increasingly important industry in Spokane ; the city provides specialized care to many patients from the surrounding Inland Northwest and as far north as the Canadian border.

The Canadian Film Development Corporation would become responsible for promoting the development of the film industry.

This, along with other industry concerns, has led to consumer and industry pressure to reform the regulatory system governing the Canadian telecommunications industry.

* Former morning show Humble & Fred, having its origins on the station in 1989, has been voted Best Morning Show in Canada four times by the Canadian radio industry

In the 1960's and early 1970's, the Canadian animation industry was little formed and virtually non-existent, excepting animation pioneers of the National Film Board.

In October 2008, it was announced that Lord would be appointed president and CEO of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, a lobbyist group that represents cellular, messaging, mobile radio, fixed wireless and mobile satellite carriers as well as companies that develop and produce products and services for the industry.