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Chronology
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The Pacifica Foundation in the
United
States inaugurates a number of FM radio stations, the first models of
free
radio on the American continent
1967
The National Film Board of
Canada sets up
the research group Groupe de recherches socials, which was
to
become Challenge for Change/Société Nouvelle
1968
The Broadcasting Act is adopted
and the
Canadian Radio and Television Council (CRTC) is created
1969
The federal Department of
Communications
(today called Canadian Heritage) and the Quebec
Ministère des Communications (today
called the Ministère de la Culture
et
des Communications) are created
The CRTC holds public hearings
to develop
a policy for broadcasting on the FM band
Pacifica
stations are set up in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Houston
(45,000
subscribers)
The community radio project that
will
become Radio
Centre-Ville is launched
1971
The Quebec government publishes
its white
paper on communications Vers une politique québécoise
des communications
1972
The Quebec communications
ministry (MCQ)
establishes a media development branch
An experimental, non-commercial
licence is
awarded to CKRL
at Laval University in Quebec City
1973
The MCQ sets up a program to
support media
development, the Programme d’aide au développement des
médias (PADM), later the
Programme d’aide aux médias communautaires (PAMEC)
The Secretary of State of Canada
establishes
the Native Communications Program.
Quebec publishes its
communications policy:
Le Québec maître d'oeuvre de la politique des
communications sur son
territoire
A non-commercial licence is
awarded to Wired
World (Kitchener, Ontario)
Radio
Centre-Ville Saint-Louis requests a licence from the Canadian
Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
First broadcast of CKRL
experimental university radio in Quebec on February 15, 1973, Quebec’s
first
non-commercial radio station (a project developed over a two-year
period by
five students at Laval University)
First activities of English-language
community radio in Canada: Wired World in 1973 and Vancouver
Co-op Radio in 1974
1974
A broadcasting licence is
granted to Radio
Centre-Ville Saint-Louis CINQ-FM (Montreal) as a
neighbourhood
station within a large urban centre
A broadcasting licence is granted to CHUT-FM (Chicoutimi)
The CRTC grants a licence to Vancouver
COOP Radio (first mention of the term community); the
CRTC employs
the same arguments in all three of the foregoing cases
The CRTC becomes the Canadian
Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
The CRTC defines the notion of
good will
and rights (permission to mention the name of the announcer, the nature
of the goods
and services, but not to incite consumption)
Radio
Centre-Ville Saint-Louis hits the airwaves on January 28, 1975
The CRTC adopts and publishes
its FM
policy recognizing community radio as complementary to the private
sector and
creating the category of special licence
Licence granted to CKUC, campus
radio in Ottawa
(student radio mandate is extended to the community)
A licence is granted to a campus
radio
station in Winnipeg
1976
Radio
Centre-Ville Saint-Louis is granted a new frequency on the FM band,
102.3
1977
Start of the community radio
project that is
to become CIBL
(then called Radio Maisonneuve) as part of a research project on
community
radio at the Université du Québec à Montréal
Supreme Court of Canada decision
on the
cable network, which remains under federal jurisdiction
1978
CIBL
is incorporated as a non-profit organization
1979
CIBL
is granted a broadcasting licence by the Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission
PAMEC, Quebec’s policy for the
development
of community media, focuses on community radio, whose numbers continue
to grow
significantly until 1985
The CRTC imposes a moratorium on
FM
stations
The Parti
Québécois inaugurates its policy
on the development of community media
The Quebec community
broadcasters’
association is created, the Association
des
radiodiffuseurs communautaires du Québec (ARCQ)
A federal subsidy program for
Native radio
is established
CIBL,
community radio for Montreal East, begins broadcasting on April 26, 1980
The National
Campus Radio Organization (NCRO) is founded
Despite increasing expenses for
PAMEC in
1980, the economic recession and budget cuts cause the
MCQ to decide gradually to withdraw its
financing of community media.
1981
Beginning of the music program Le
rock
de A à Z , where the core of the famous comedy group Rock
et Belles Oreilles is born
1982
Collaboration between the
Montreal
International Jazz Festival and Radio Centre-Ville, which becomes the
voice of Jazz during the festival, from 1982 to 1984
1983
The CRTC gives community and
campus radio
stations the right to broadcast informative publicity
Founding of the World
Association of
Community Radio Broadcasters, AMARC
CIBL
lodges a request with the CRTC for increased power
In 1985, 23 community stations,
19 student
stations and some sixty Native stations are in operation.
The CRTC publishes its Policy on
community
radio; henceforward, community radio stations are classified as either
“Type A”
(first service) or “Type B”. All restrictions on the kind of
advertising
broadcast are removed
During the CRTC public hearings,
the
Quebec Department of Communications confirms its desire to see
community radio
become completely self-financing and its intention to stop subsidies
1986
The CRTC grants Radio
Centre-Ville an increase in power (50 watts)
The Caplan-Sauvageau working
group submits
its report, which recommends recognition of community radio and
television as a
third sector in Canadian broadcasting, a sector that complements the
private
and the public
Quebec’s Treasury Board
recommends
abolishing subsidies to community media
The National Aboriginal
Communications
Society (NACS) is formed
1987
A broadcast licence is granted
to student
radio CKUT, associated with McGill University
The CRTC refuses to grant CIBL
an increase in power
PAMEC is replaced by PARC
(Programme
d’aide à la radio communautaire). The other community media
(print, TV) will no
longer be subsidized
The Secretary of State sets up a
program
of temporary assistance to community radio in official language
communities in
minority situations
Radio Péninsule, the
first French-language
community radio outside Quebec is launched in New Brunswick
1988
CRTC policy on Balance in
Programming on
Community Access Media, following complaints about Vancouver COOP Radio
Mohamed Lotfi produces the show Les
Souverains anonymes, broadcast on two Montreal community radio
stations, giving a voice to inmates in Bordeaux jail
CIBL
is granted a 225-watt increase in power
Review of Canada’s FM policy as
it applies
to the private sector and the announcement of a policy designed to
examine
campus and community radio
The new law on broadcasting in
Canada is
tabled
1991
The CRTC grants Radio
Centre-Ville a new
increase in power (1,300 watts)
The Quebec government prize Prix
des
communautés culturelles is awarded to Radio Centre-Ville
A broadcast licence is granted
to student
radio CISM, associated with the Université de Montréal
Canadian
Broadcasting Act; review
of CRTC policy
on campus and community radio; henceforward the Canadian broadcast
system is
made up of three distinct elements: public sector media, private sector
media
and community sector media
Announcement of an aid program
in support
of French-language and Native radio in Ontario
The Alliance des radios
communautaires du
Canada (ARCC) is founded
1992
The CRTC asks campus
radio to take on a mandate similar
to that of community radio
The program for assistance to
community
radio in official language communities in minority situations is not
renewed
“Quinzaine de la
radio” (special
programming in support of CIBL)
PARC reverts to being PAMEC;
media
subsidies are restored (print and TV). The new support reflects a
Quebec
government focus on the regions
1996
Announcement of the elimination
of the
program to assist community radio in Ontario
1997
The CRTC refuses to give CIBL
a new frequency, 95.1, and gives the frequency instead to Radio Canada’s Première Chaîne
Quebec has 27 community radio
stations, 10
campus stations and 50 aboriginal stations
1999
Radio Centre-Ville’s Greek
program wins
the Média 1998 prize, awarded to media in the Diaspora
by the Greek
Ministry of the Press and the Media
The Canadian Radio-television
and
Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
policy on community radio
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chronology will take you to relevant sections
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