Radio / Television News

CBC resurrects Toronto’s French station


OTTAWA – The CBC received CRTC approval Wednesday to operate a new French-language regional television station in Toronto.The Commission also approved CBC’s requests to amend the broadcasting licences for CBOFT-TV Ottawa and CBOFT-DT Ottawa in order to transfer certain analog transmitters to the new station.  The original CBLFT-TV station was closed in 1991 and converted to a rebroadcasting transmitter for CBOFT-TV Ottawa.CBLFT-TV Toronto must broadcast a minimum of five hours per week, on average on an annual basis, of local programming intended for television viewers in Toronto and a large part of Ontario. At the CBC's request, the Commission issued a...