OTTAWA – The CRTC has attached a number of mandatory orders to the license renewals of two French-language radio stations.
French-language ethnic commercial AM radio station CJWI Montréal received a two-year renewal, from September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2020, with the Commission noting that the short-term licence renewal will allow for an earlier review of the station’s compliance with regulatory requirements.
The three mandatory orders attached to the station’s new licence pertain to sections 8(1), 8(4), 8(6), 9(2), 9(3)(b) and 9(4) of the Radio Regulations, 1986, which encompass program logs, the annual submission of a statement of accounts, and dispute resolution and requests for information.
The CRTC also awarded a short, two-year licence renewal to French-language AM commercial radio station CJMS Saint-Constant, Quebec from September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2020. It also issued a new mandatory order requiring parent Groupe Médias Pam Inc. to ensure that CJMS complies at all times with section 9(2) of the Radio Regulations, 1986 and re-imposed existing mandatory orders.
In addition, the Commission approved the application by Groupe Médias to delete CJMS’s condition of licence relating to over-and-above Canadian content development contributions.
