Radio / Television News

Missing 1.5% of Cancon leads to Commission wrist-slap


OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Coming up short in its required Canadian content caused the CRTC to issue a shorter than normal license term to Quinte Broadcasting’s CJBQ Belleville. The license renewal announced today is for a four-year term rather than the full seven. After Quinte and the CRTC reviewed logger tapes from the week of March 9th, “the Commission determined that the licensee had devoted 33.5% of its programming to Canadian musical selections.” According to the radio regulations, the full complement of required Cancon is 35%. While this was a first offense and that Quinte had already taken steps to make sure...