The CRTC’s bureaucratic war to keep community media out of community hands — The Canada Files
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Written by: Aidan Jonah The Canadian airwaves are often perceived as a banal thing, driven by rather bland citizens accepting of a socially progressive, economically neo-liberal society. Yet, rather than being a product of people residing in Canada, it is instead the product of the Canadian state’s
  • i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Beware of those trying to use these arguments to allow multi-national corporations to invade the spectrum.

    The CRTC currently act as a band-pass filter on the size of corporations trying to use the airwaves.

    We regularly see larger corps asking for exemptions to be even more monopolistic… For example, there is a limit of 2 radio station that a same company can own. Without this, we wouldn’t have many small/medium businesses owning radios.

    On the “big” side, I think they’re doing ok (regarding radio + TV, internet is another thing altogether).

    On the “small” side, I don’t have much direct experience but it seems things could be made less restricted. For example, requiring a ham radio licence should be enough to begin with!