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Ottawa, 9 October 1996
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Decision CRTC 96-666
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Telemedia Communications Inc.
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Timmins, North Bay and Sudbury, Ontario - 950292300 - 950429100 - 950425900 - 950261800 - 950291500 - 950262600
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Applications to provide French-language programming - Denied
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Following Public Notice CRTC 1995-177 dated 17 October 1995, the Commission denies the applications to amend the broadcasting licences for CKGB and CJQQ-FM Timmins, CFCH and CKAT-FM North Bay, CIGM and CJRQ-FM Sudbury that would have allowed the licensee to broadcast 30 minutes per week of French-language programming.
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Seven interventions in opposition to these applications were submitted. The interveners include: Mouvement des intervenants et intervenantes communautaires en Radio de l'Ontario; Alliance des radios communautaires du Canada; Association de la presse francophone; Coopérative Radio Communautaire Nipissing; CINN-FM, La Radio de l'Épinette noire, Hearst; Radio communautaire Cornwall-Alexandria Inc., licensee of CHOD-FM Cornwall and Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada. The interveners suggested, among other concerns, that approval of these applications would result in a significant decease in advertising revenues for the existing French-language community stations, thereby negatively affecting their viability.
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The Commission has considered the views of the applicant and of the interveners and is convinced that the francophone community is already well served by the programming broadcast by French-language stations located in Timmins, North Bay and Sudbury. Having taken into account the precarious financial situation of the existing French-language community stations, the Commission has determined that approval of these applications could negatively impact on these stations.
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Allan J. Darling
Secretary General |
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