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Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2003-204

  Ottawa, 2 July 2003
  Various applicants
Areas of Montréal, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières and Saguenay, Quebec
  Public Hearing at Montréal, Quebec
3 February 2003
 

Denial of various applications considered at the 3 February 2003 Montréal Public Hearing

  In a public hearing held at Montréal from 3 to 19 February 2003, the Commission considered 21 applications for new stations to serve the areas of Montréal, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières and Saguenay, as well as five applications for licence amendments that were technically mutually exclusive with new licence applications. In this decision, the Commission denies 12 applications for new radio stations to serve the areas of Montréal, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières and Saguenay as well as one application for a licence amendment.

1.

On 17 January 2002, the Commission issued Call(s) for applications for a broadcasting licence to carry on a radio programming undertaking to serve Montréal, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières and Saguenay (formerly Chicoutimi/ Jonquière), Quebec, BroadcastingPublic Notices CRTC 2002-2, 2002-3, 2002-4 and 2002-5.

2.

Subsequently, the Commission considered 21 applications for new radio stations in the province of Québec, as well as 5 applications for technical change. The Commission considered all these applications filed in response to these calls in a proceeding that included a public hearing held at Montréal from 3 to 19 February 2003.

3.

In Introductory statement to Broadcasting Decisions CRTC 2003-192 to 2003-203: Applications related to radio stations in the Province of Quebec, Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2003-33, 2 July 2003 (the Introductory Statement), the Commission today announces that it has approved four applications for new Montréal radio stations, three applications for new Sherbrooke radio stations and one application for a new Trois-Rivières radio station as well as licence amendment applications by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in order to add transmitters in Montréal and Magog and to change the technical parameters of two stations in Trois-Rivières. The reasons for the approval of the specific individual applications are set out in Broadcasting Decisions CRTC 2003-192 to 2003-203.

4.

In this decision, the Commission denies 13 applications, which are listed in the appendix.
  Secretary General
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Appendix to Broadcasting Decision 2003-204

  The Commission denies the following applications listed in Broadcasting Notice of Public Hearing CRTC 2002-13, 27 November 2002:
  9121-0070 Québec inc.
(a wholly-owned subsidiary of Groupe Radio Antenne "6" inc.)
- 2002-0274-7 (Saguenay)
  Astral Radio inc.
- 2002-0507-2 (Saint-Hyacinthe)
  Azzahra International Foundation Inc.
- 2001-0718-7 (Montréal)
  Cogeco Radio-Télévision inc.
- 2001-1417-4 (Saguenay)
  Genex Communications inc.
- 2002-0265-6 (Montréal)
- 2002-0276-3 (Sherbrooke)
  Global Communications Limited
- 2002-0287-0 (Montréal)
  Groupe Radio RNC inc.
- 2002-0291-1 (Sherbrooke)
- 2002-0292-9 (Trois-Rivières)
  Metromedia CMR Broadcasting Inc.
- 2002-0269-8 (Montréal)
  TVA Group Inc.
- 2002-0279-7 (Montréal)
- 2002-0281-2 (Trois-Rivières)
- 2002-0282-0 (Sherbrooke)

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