Bell Media asks for a break on a promise it made in Astral purchase

By Steve Faguy MONTREAL — Seven years after it convinced the CRTC to allow it to acquire Astral Media, Bell Media wants to adjust one of the promises it made in order to keep an extra radio station in Montreal. In an application submitted in August 2019 but only published on Friday, Bell asks the Commission to reduce the minimum hours of local programming for CKGM (TSN 690) Montreal by a third, from 96 hours to 63 hours a week. "To the best of our knowledge no other commercial AM station has a set number of local programming hours or...