CHUM, who has been battling it out with the CRTC over the Canadian satellite radio licenses awarded a few months back, is again asking for changes to their license. Now they want to be able to add commercials, more channels, more foreign content, and more rebroadcast programming
from terrestrial radio.The item that screams out at me immediately is the ability to add commercials now. Seeing as this is still subscription radio - only instead of being satellite based, it's still a network of terrestrial based towers. Still, CHUM is asking for only 6-minutes per hour of commercials - not bad - and if it gets them to stop complaining, it's worth it.
1. Well, 6-minutes per hour of commercials is really not bad. Keep it up!
Posted at 3:15AM on Oct 5th 2005 by Rachel