"Tirez la plug," Commission is told

By Denis Carmel GATINEAU – During day two of a hearing over whether or not to allow certain radio stations to keep their licences because of repeated non-compliance with their licence conditions, the CRTC heard from the owners of CPAM (1410 AM), a commercial ethnic AM station that has seen four licence terms with apparent non-compliance issues, as we reported this week. As well, CPAM had to respond to questions about CJMS, a country music (1040 AM) station. There aren’t very many AM music stations left. As with the other cases heard this week, the company is mainly operated by...