by Monica Auer | May 16, 2020 | Research
The Forum responded to the CRTC’s notice of consultation (2020-1240), pointing out that it has taken decades for Canada’s regulator to establish clear measures to ensure that all Canadians are able to access the communications system. FRPC’s 16 May...
by Monica Auer | Mar 12, 2020 | Broadcasting, Internet, Radio, Television
In spring 2019 the CRTC invited CBC to apply to renew its radio and television licences and to discuss the possible regulation of CBC’s online programming services that currently operate without CRTC oversight due to an exemption order. CBC submitted its...
by Monica Auer | Feb 22, 2020 | Broadcasting, Internet, Radio, Television
The Forum’s intervention in the CRTC’s proceeding to consider CBC’s applications to renew its conventional radio and television, and discretionary television, programming services was filed on February 20, 2020. The Forum focussed on three main areas...
by Monica Auer | Feb 4, 2020 | Broadcasting, Internet, Radio, Television
The CRTC last invited comments on and heard the applications by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to renew its radio and television licences in 2012, and in May 2013 renewed CBC’s licences from 1 September 2013 to 31 August 2018. Given changes in...
by Monica Auer | Feb 3, 2020 | Radio
In January 2020 the Forum submitted interventions in the licence renewal applications submitted by Rogers and by Corus with respect to 34 private radio stations. The Forum’s main concerns are that the CRTC’s licence renewal application forms require too...
