The CRTC has approved the sale of 21 radio stations previously owned by BCE Inc. to Vista Radio Ltd. All the stations listed in the Feb. 13 decision are located in British Columbia.
The purchase price is just over $3.03 million, with Vista adding a tangible benefits...
The CRTC has said no to two applications for new radio stations -- one in Vancouver and one in Grande Prairie, Alberta.
In a pair of decisions released Monday, the...
CRTC chairman and CEO Ian Scott told a broadcasting conference Tuesday that the commission is “prepared to be flexible with new approaches to regulation” as it prepares to review its policy for...
The CRTC has decided the Timmins, Ontario commercial radio market can’t sustain another station, rejecting an application by Vista Radio Ltd. for another broadcasting licence. Timmins has four...
The CRTC has launched consultations on the radio market capacity of Vernon, B.C., Grande Prairie, Alta., and Scarborough, Ont. It said in the notices of consultation published Tuesday that it had received applications for new...
TORONTO — The radio industry has a “big problem” with a lack of...
The CRTC has opened up a comment period after it received applications from Vista Radio Ltd. for two new commercial radio stations in North Bay and Timmins, Ont. Vista radio currently operates 41 radio stations in Alberta, B.C., Ontario and the Northwest Territories, according to the company’s website. That includes two Moose FM stations in both those communities already: CHMT-FM in Timmins and CFXN-FM in North Bay. The CRTC’s notices opening comment periods on the “market capacity and the appropriateness of issuing a call for radio applications” for the two markets are both...
The radio market in Lloydminster, on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, can’t sustain another radio station, the CRTC said Wednesday. “While Lloydminster`s population is growing and average...
The CRTC has approved the acquisition of two Ontario radio stations by Byrnes Communications Inc. from...
The CRTC has approved the acquisition of a Kelowna, B.C. radio station by Avenue Radio Ltd. from Vista Radio Ltd. However, it denied an Avenue Radio request for an exception to the requirement it pay tangible benefits, which it...
The CRTC said Thursday that it has scheduled a hearing to take place in Toronto on Nov. 27 to consider 11 broadcasting applications. They include three applications for stations in Grimsby and...
The CRTC is consulting on the radio market capacity in Lloydminster, which straddles the...
The CRTC has approved a transfer of ownership for CKJN-FM in Haldimand County, Ont. from Vista Radio Ltd. to Durham Radio Inc. In a decision Friday, it also said it approved...
An undue-preference complaint against a music streaming service offered by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron has Rogers Communications Inc. arguing that zero-rating the service is a net-neutrality...
The CRTC said Tuesday that an application that was to be heard May 13 from a radio station seeking to change its frequency has been delayed due to an advisory from Industry Canada that its request “is not technically...
