Another January hearing as Feds send Ottawa radio decision back to Commission

OTTAWA – New Canadian Heritage and Official Languages Minister James Moore didn’t wait long to get his hands dirty. On the job for less than a month, his ministry today announced the federal government has referred back for reconsideration and re-hearing, the August 26th decisions by the CRTC to award new radio station licenses in the Ottawa-Gatineau region.The decision, as reported by Cartt.ca, licensed two new English-language commercial FM radio stations to serve the area and some complained that both licenses were going to English-language broadcasters. Under orders from the Minister today, the Commission now has to squeeze in another...