Cabin Radio challenges CRTC FM denial at Federal Court of Appeal

OTTAWA – Cabin Radio, the online news radio station that was denied by the CRTC an FM licence in Yellowknife, has filed an application for the Federal Court of Appeal to hear its case. The appeal, which was received by the court last month and filed Wednesday, charges that the CRTC’s February decision was “unreasonable, incorrect, and arbitrary due to errors of law, jurisdiction, and fact.” The regulator’s decision said the addition of another FM station would financially harm the incumbent and only commercial station in Yellowknife, Vista Radio’s CJCD-FM, which has experienced declining revenues in the five years before the...