by John Harris Stevenson | Aug 4, 2020 | Broadcasting, CRTC, Radio, Television
Canada’s Forum for Research and Policy in Communications today asked the CRTC to terminate the current renewal proceeding for the CBC and launch a much-needed public proceeding on the future of public broadcasting in Canada. Canadians care deeply about the CBC: more...
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...
by John Harris Stevenson | Jan 24, 2020 | Broadcasting, Radio, Television
FRPC procedural request to the CRTC with respect to CBC’s application to renew its licences and request for confidentiality is available here.
