COMMENTARY: Why is there still no Commission vice-chair?

French broadcasters license renewal will carry on with just two Francophone commissionersWE HAD THOUGHT IT was government policy which said in order to run any CRTC hearing about broadcasting in the province of Quebec, at least three commissioners must be Francophone.When former CRTC vice-chair, broadcasting, Tom Pentefountas (Greek last name, but a Francophone Quebecker), announced a year ago last Wednesday that he was leaving the Commission, the Regulator immediately postponed a hearing into the framework for French-language vocal music applicable to French-language commercial radio. It’s not part of the official paperwork explaining the reason why that hearing was postponed, but...