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The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC; French: Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes) is a public organization in Canada tasked with the mandate as a regulatory agency tribunal for various electronic communications, covering broadcasting and telecommunications. [2]
The following is a list of radio stations in the Canadian province of Ontario, as of 2025. Note that stations are listed by their legal community of license , which in some cases may not be the city where studios and/or transmitter are.
Amendments were made to the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Act the following year, making the CRBC accountable to Cabinet rather than Parliament, and thus giving the Commission more power over hiring decisions, revenue spending, and station purchases. One of the first major decisions of CRBC would be to place a 40% limit on foreign programs.
The CRTC approved the CBC's application to operate a French-language AM radio station at Elk Island National Park, Alberta on frequency 1210 kHz with a day-time and night-time power of 20 watts [53] and an English-language radio station to operate at 1540 kHz. [54] It is currently unknown if these radio stations are still in operation.
List of radio stations in Newfoundland and Labrador; List of radio stations in the Northwest Territories; List of radio stations in Nova Scotia; List of radio stations in Nunavut; List of radio stations in Ontario; List of radio stations in Prince Edward Island; List of radio stations in Quebec; List of radio stations in Saskatchewan
Music-based commercial radio stations in Canada are mandated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to reserve at least 35 per cent of their playlists for Canadian content, although exemptions are granted in some border cities (e.g. Windsor, Ontario) where the competition from American stations threatens the survival ...
Aboriginal broadcasting in Canada is mostly on the FM band. In June 2000, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced that Aboriginal Voices Radio had been granted a licence for a station in Toronto, with transmitter on the CN Tower.
Radio homogenization is the shift in which previously locally programmed and hosted radio stations increasingly air remotely pre-recorded program material and central-cast via Internet or satellite. Background of corporate consolidation