Showing posts with label CRTC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CRTC. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

CKLN License Revoked - What Happened?

Summary of what happened:
http://torontoist.com/2011/01/timeline_why_ckln_radios_broadcast_was_revoked.php

History leading up to license revocation:
http://www.theeyeopener.com/really-old-archives/search.php?q=ckln&=Search

UPDATE
Feb. 11, 2011
CKLN granted stay of CRTC Decision, will remain on air pending the outcome of CKLN’s motion for leave to appeal

CKLN will remain on air, for now

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Bell gets a slap on the wrist from the CRTC for annoying its customers

Complaints of abusive calls from Bell telemarketers - thestar.com

OTTAWA—The CRTC received more than 10,000 complaints from consumers
about Bell Canada telemarketers, including at least one alleged death
threat, the
Toronto Star has learned.



While both the Canadian
Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and Bell Canada
refused to say how many complaints were received from the public, the
Star
confirmed it was 10,000-plus and that the telemarketers’ calls
continued for about a year before the agency finally moved against Bell.



Bell was recently fined $1.3 million for calling tens of thousands of consumers on the Do Not Call list.



The calls from the telemarketing
companies on contract — some of them in India — were at times aggressive
and abusive, documents show. In some cases telemarketers cursed at
people who showed no interest in their sales pitch and even threatened
them.

...


Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Bad media news - CRTC enables SunTV (Fox News North) to lie to you

Progressive Proselytizing: CRTC enables SunTV to say what it wants - even if not true
Excerpt:
Some have considered this comparison to Fox News unfair[1]:

Don Newman, CBC columnist and former host of Newsworld's
"Politics" attacked the idea characterizing Fox news in the U.S. as
"hugely polarizing." Fox "mainly spews out propaganda that is
dangerously misleading and often factually wrong....It
specializes in drive-by attacks and misrepresentations, and is
positively Orwellian at times, claiming to be 'fair and balanced' while
implying that its competitors aren't."
This is a reasonable
description of Fox News, but notice the distinction claimed to separate
SunTV from Fox: it is precisely the "misleading and factually wrong"
part. This is the part the CRTC gives them full license to do.


Mr Lavoie, who replaced Mr. Teneycke and is a former Mulroney insider,
claims the news will retain Sun's "provocative" tone. We are thus left
with an unapologetically politically right leaning 24 hour news station
intending to engage in provocative language with the ability to
misdirect or lie with impunity. That is a scary thing indeed.