QUEBEC - With a stroke of the pen, the CRTC’s battle with Quebec City problem-child radio station CHOI-FM, hooked up to the “judicial respirator” for more than two years, are effectively over. The CRTC has approved an application by Radio Nord Communications Inc. to take over CHOI’s licence from Genex Communications, whose former talk show hosts (like Jeff Fillion and now-independent Quebec MP Andre Arthur) earned it top ratings and big advertising dollars but also lawsuits and the CRTC’s ultimate sanction, licence non-renewal. In its decision handed down Friday, the CRTC brushed aside demands that it issue a general call...
