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Bell / Astral will try merger again

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azumanga

Bell and Astral will be submitting another merger plan to the CRTC, to address the deficiencies that led to its rejection last month. Details won't be announced until the CRTC makes them public early next year, though plans do not include flipping CKGM Montreal to French. However, as the merger, as before, will mean selling stations, there's speculation that CKGM may be sold off:

http://blog.fagstein.com/2012/11/19/bell-astral-take-2/
http://www.astral.com/en/press-room/news/2012/astral-and-bell-submit-new-proposal-for-crtc-approval
 
I see The Bell is launching a Twitter campaign in favour of their cause. I hope they're ready to be bombarded by consumers.

Nothing they can do will ever convince me that this deal is good for Canadians. Even in a reduced form, Bell is already too big. It's too bad we don't have the kind of anti-trust legislation in Canada that the Americans have.

This is a friggin' phone company. Even the Carlos Slim empire in Mexico which holds a near-monopoly on telephone and Internet service there and is the dominant mobile provider is not in the broadcasting business.
 
M.J. said:
It's too bad we don't have the kind of anti-trust legislation in Canada that the Americans have.

This is a friggin' phone company. Even the Carlos Slim empire in Mexico which holds a near-monopoly on telephone and Internet service there and is the dominant mobile provider is not in the broadcasting business.
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Yes but, in the States you are allowed to own up to 60% of a market on the radio side of things. In Canada, it's still two AM and two FM.
 
Yeziknoradio said:
M.J. said:
It's too bad we don't have the kind of anti-trust legislation in Canada that the Americans have.

This is a friggin' phone company. Even the Carlos Slim empire in Mexico which holds a near-monopoly on telephone and Internet service there and is the dominant mobile provider is not in the broadcasting business.
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Yes but, in the States you are allowed to own up to 60% of a market on the radio side of things. In Canada, it's still two AM and two FM.
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Though it's especially precarious in francophone communities such as Quebec, where they can own two AM and two FM in each language, meaning that in these markets, they can own up to a total of eight stations.
 
market, singular, isn't it?

(IIRC there are no English stations in Quebec anymore, except in Montreal and a handful of First Nations stations?)
 
No English language commercial stations but there is still the CBC available in most of Quebec in English on various low powered AM and low to high powered FM transmitters.
 
mimo said:
No English language commercial stations but there is still the CBC available in most of Quebec in English on various low powered AM and low to high powered FM transmitters.
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Oops, yes, somehow I managed to forget about the CBC!
 
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