CRTC Roundup: They saved local TV!
Well, not quite. The CRTC on Monday decided to hike the fee (temporarily, at least) for its Local Programming Improvement Fund from 1% to 1.5% of cable and satellite provider revenues (revenues, not...
View ArticleRNC wants to turn Planète Jazz into Radio X
Update (March 14, 2013): The application has been denied. If owner RNC Media gets its way with the CRTC, Montreal could soon be getting its own “radio poubelle” station by next fall. CKLX-FM 91.9 has...
View ArticleCHOI Radio X launches in Montreal
CHOI Radio X has arrived in Montreal. On Monday morning, at 5:30 a.m., CKLX-FM 91.9 officially rebranded from Planète Jazz to CHOI Radio X Montréal with sounds of jazz music getting interrupted and its...
View ArticleRatings prove benefits of talk format
In June, Cogeco Diffusion announced that it would take three stations outside Montreal using the CKOI brand and turn them into talk stations similar to CHMP 98.5. Three months after the changes took...
View ArticleCHOI plummets from first to fourth in Quebec City radio ratings
Numeris released its spring radio ratings report for diary markets today, and it’s really bad news for Quebec City’s controversial talk station CHOI-FM. It goes from having a 17.7% market share last...
View ArticleCHOI climbs back into second (or first, depending how you count) in Quebec...
Numeris released radio ratings for diary (read: medium-size) markets recently. You can read the top-line details here, or get some deeper numbers from Bell Media Sales for stations in Quebec. Among...
View ArticleRNC Media agrees to sell CHOI Radio X and 91,9 Sports
In August, as RNC Media announced the sale of 10 of its 15 radio stations in Quebec to Cogeco, the chair of its board said the remaining stations were “not on the market.” Four months later, two of...
View ArticleBuyer of 91,9 Sports wants to drop its all-sports format and turn it into a...
Leclerc Communication warned its staff and even issued a press release to soften the blow of the posting of the CRTC application today, but it still comes as a disappointment to many Montreal...
View ArticleLeclerc abandons purchase of Radio X and 91,9 Sports after CRTC sets...
The CRTC has said no to Leclerc Communication’s request to own three French-language FM radio stations in Quebec City, but approved the $19-million deal for it to acquire CHOI-FM (Radio X) in the...
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