Radio / Television News

CHOI-FM sale appealed


QUEBEC – The CRTC’s recent decision to transfer the licence of this city’s troublesome CHOI-FM from Genex Communications to Radio Nord Communications has not gone over well with at least one interested suitor. MBL Communication Média, which had expressed interest in competing for CHOI’s frequency when it looked like the CRTC would revoke the licence, has filed for leave to appeal the Commission's approval of the sale before the Federal Court of Appeal.The company wants the court to require the CRTC to open up bids for CHOI’s much-coveted frequency, as the CRTC originally said it would do in July 2004...