Anti-CHOIx: CRTC shutting down Quebec City's most popular radio station
Gomorrahite
THE GLOBE AND MAIL / The Canadian Press (Tuesday July 13, 2004):
"Radio station loses licence over complaints"
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040713.wradi0713/BNStory/Entertainment/
. . .
CHOI has been the target of dozens of complaints since Genex
Communications Inc. bought it in 1997.
The CRTC said the complaints were "with respect to the conduct of the
hosts and the spoken word content that is aired, including offensive
comments, personal attacks and harassment.
"Broadcasting by CHOI-FM must therefore cease by Aug. 31, 2004."
. . .
In 2002, CHOI was given two years by the CRTC to clean up the quality of
its programming, but 45 new complaints have since been filed against the
station.
According to a published report, CHOI would be only the sixth station to
be yanked off the airwaves by the CRTC since the watchdog's creation in
1968.
All of the stations closed were in Quebec.
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL (Thursday July 15, 2004):
"The CRTC's guide to improper speech"
Editorial
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040715/ERADIO15/
THE GLOBE AND MAIL (Thursday July 15, 2004):
"How to become toast"
Column by Margaret Wente
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040715/COWENT15/
THE GLOBE AND MAIL (Thursday July 15, 2004):
"Radio crackdown opens deep divide"
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040715/CRTC15/
THE GLOBE AND MAIL (Thursday July 15, 2004):
"Boss of shock-jock station 'straight-arrow' accountant"
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040715/CHOI15/
THE GLOBE AND MAIL (Wednesday July 14, 2004):
"Free-speech fight erupts after CRTC bans station"
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040714/RADIO14/
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC):
News Release: July 13th, 2004:
"The CRTC decides not to renew the licence of CHOI-FM Québec"
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/NEWS/RELEASES/2004/r040713.htm
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC):
Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2004-271
Ottawa, 13 July 2004
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/eng/decisions/2004/db2004-271.htm
Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC)
http://www.cbsc.ca/
CHOI 98,1 Radio X
http://www.choiradiox.com/
The Gomorrahizer
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GOMORRAHY.com | Censorship in Canada
http://www.gomorrahy.com/
According to documents from the files of Canada Border Services Agency
(CBSA), gomorrahy (go·mor·rah·y - cf. sod·om·y) is the insertion of a
hand, a foot, or the stump of a limb (i.e., the insertion of an
extremity) into an introitus/vagina or an anus/anal canal, for a sexual
purpose. In other words, the following sexual acts are subsumed under
the concept "gomorrahy": fisting/handballing; footing; and stumping.
Java
shouldn't even exist. If you are being lashed at by a radio station there
are courts for that so go sue and leave us our freedom of choice of what we
want to listen to.
Java
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Paul Morgan
And it isn't your Canada, it belongs to us.
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 22:29:20 -0400, "Java" <cjbo...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
Java
Java
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Paul Morgan
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 07:45:24 -0400, "Java" <cjbo...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
Carter Lee
> And they call my Canada a free country, freedom of speech. The CRTC
> shouldn't even exist. If you are being lashed at by a radio station there
> are courts for that so go sue and leave us our freedom of choice of what we
> want to listen to.
On one plane I agree with you, the CRTC should not exist at least
in it's present format. It should not have the power to sanction a
broadcaster simply because he broadcasts material that is not
considered politically acceptable.
On the other hand you must realize that freedom of expression (as
it is called in Canada) does not include the freedom to broadcast
libellous or hate material. Freedom of speech, as many seem to
believe, is not freedom to say anything you like whenever you like.
Carter
Java
Java
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Paul Morgan
I don't know why it is so hard for people to understand that.
Bernd Jochims
"Paul Morgan" <he...@home.com> wrote in message
| I don't know why it is so hard for people to understand that.
Because you have a thick skull.
--
Bernie Jochims http://www.findmynext.com
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
George Dance
> Java wrote:
> > And they call my Canada a free country, freedom of speech. The CRTC
> > shouldn't even exist. If you are being lashed at by a radio station there
> > are courts for that so go sue and leave us our freedom of choice of what we
> > want to listen to.
>
> On one plane I agree with you, the CRTC should not exist at least
> in it's present format. It should not have the power to sanction a
> broadcaster simply because he broadcasts material that is not
> considered politically acceptable.
The problem is that, when a regulatory body like the CRTC has no
oversight - when it's effectively prosecutor, judge, and jury -
there's no way of knowing on what grounds it actually made a decision.
'The Governor in Council' (IOW, cabinet) has the power to review, and
set aside if necessary, the CRTC's granting and renewing of any
licence; but nothing in the Act gives them any power to review its
suspension or revocation of one. Which is a glaring loophole in the
Act that needs to be changed.
> On the other hand you must realize that freedom of expression (as
> it is called in Canada) does not include the freedom to broadcast
> libellous or hate material.
It doesn't include the freedom to disseminate libellous or hate
material in any form. Doing so is a Criminal Code offence, and if
that's the alleged offense, that's how it should be treated - via the
criminal courts, with full Charter protection for the accused's rights
(such as the right to be considered innocent until guilt is proven;
which implies in this case that the station would not be closed until
a verdict had been reached).
Mariesoleil86
I'm from Québec city and I listen to this station everyday. I just
stumbled upon this forum while looking for news on the radio station. Most
of you seem to think this is a station of nazis or something. I just want
to clarify a few things for you guys. First of all the offensive stuff
that was said on the air is a total of 1 minute of airtime put together
bit by bit on over 6,000 hours of airtime. Second of all the phrases were
taken out of contexte and the CRTC didn't mention that the other hosts at
the time really gave a hard time to the host who said that. Thirdly the
station has improved over the last two years and when the CRTC came down
to the audiences last year, they didn't even listen to what the people had
to say. The president Charles Dalfen was sleeping on his desk!! The
station proposed may things like installing a 30 second delay so that if
offensive comments were made they could be cut out before it went on the
air. And to finish off did you know that half of the complaints filed
against CHOI were filed via hotmail accounts with no way to follow-up with
the said persons. That means if I had a few hours on my hands I could open
up 50 hotmail accounts and file complaints against one radio station right
now. You know what the real problem is here right now, it's the big radio
companies are losing money in Québec city right now because they are being
out-ranked by a privately owned radio station, oddly enough these people
are friends with the CRTC and have been seen having supper with them on a
few occasions. Sort of odd don't you think?
Mariesoleil86
George Dance
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm from Québec city and I listen to this station everyday. I just
> stumbled upon this forum while looking for news on the radio station. Most
> of you seem to think this is a station of nazis or something.
That's certainly been the case here on can.politics - more than one
person has accused Jeff Fillion of being a racist.
> I just want
> to clarify a few things for you guys. First of all the offensive stuff
> that was said on the air is a total of 1 minute of airtime put together
> bit by bit on over 6,000 hours of airtime. Second of all the phrases were
> taken out of contexte and the CRTC didn't mention that the other hosts at
> the time really gave a hard time to the host who said that.
Most of the people writing on the issue here (including me) don't even
speak French, let alone have ever listened to CHOI; so they have
absolutely no idea of the context of any of the alleged quotes. It's
all been hearsay.
> Thirdly the
> station has improved over the last two years and when the CRTC came down
> to the audiences last year, they didn't even listen to what the people had
> to say. The president Charles Dalfen was sleeping on his desk!!
Dalfen slept during the public hearing?
> The
> station proposed may things like installing a 30 second delay so that if
> offensive comments were made they could be cut out before it went on the
> air.
That's good to know. The CRTC's story is that Genex refused to even
acknowledge that there was a problem, and that's the story going
around the anglophone media.
> And to finish off did you know that half of the complaints filed
> against CHOI were filed via hotmail accounts with no way to follow-up with
> the said persons. That means if I had a few hours on my hands I could open
> up 50 hotmail accounts and file complaints against one radio station right
> now.
Incredible.
> You know what the real problem is here right now, it's the big radio
> companies are losing money in Québec city right now because they are being
> out-ranked by a privately owned radio station, oddly enough these people
> are friends with the CRTC and have been seen having supper with them on a
> few occasions. Sort of odd don't you think?
It's rather odd that, if there's any suspicion of corruption involved
in a CRTC decision to grant a license, the federal cabinet has the
power to review the decision, and overturn it if necessary; yet the
Broadcasting Act gives cabinet no power to review a CRTC decision to
suspend a license, whatever the reason.
One hopes that Liza Frulla will move to close that loophole in the Act
in the next Parliament; and that she will use the powers she has to
prevent the CRTC from awarding any re-awarding of CHOI's license to
one of its competitors until the matter has been dealt with by the
federal courts.