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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.
Community radio began in Canada in 1974/1975 with four stations: CFRO-FM Vancouver, CINQ-FM Montreal, CKCU Ottawa, and CKWR-FM Kitchener. [2] [3] In 1975, the Quebec provincial government began a financial aid program [4] that helped to grow the presence of community radio in the province, and as a result, there are now 22 community radio stations in Quebec.
The CRBC also hired private stations across the country to carry at least three hours a day of CRBC programming. These affiliates were known as "basic stations". [2] CRBC-owned or leased stations had the prefix "CRC" in their call-letters. E. Austin Weir, formerly of the CNR radio network, became the CRBC's program director. He was terminated ...
List of radio stations in Alberta; List of radio stations in British Columbia; List of radio stations in Manitoba; List of radio stations in New Brunswick; 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
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 ...
Of the 4,992 total stations across 268 set radio markets, almost half are now owned by a company owning three or more stations in the same market. [1] The Future of Music Coalition reported the number of stations owned by the ten largest companies increased by roughly fifteen times between 1985 and 2005. [ 4 ]
The Royal Commission on Radio Broadcasting, otherwise known as the Aird Commission, was chaired by John Aird and examined Canada's broadcasting industry. The report released its findings in 1929 when it concluded that Canada was in need of a publicly funded radio broadcast system and a governing regulator for all broadcasting throughout the country.
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.