{"id":3536,"date":"2007-09-28T13:55:40","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T18:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/?p=3536"},"modified":"2007-09-28T13:55:40","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T18:55:40","slug":"20070928%e7%bd%97%e6%9d%b0%e5%a3%ab%e8%8e%b7%e6%9c%89%e6%9d%a1%e4%bb%b6%e6%94%b6%e8%b4%adcitytv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/?p=3536","title":{"rendered":"20070928\/\u7f57\u6770\u58eb\u83b7\u6709\u6761\u4ef6\u6536\u8d2dCityTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rogers gets CRTC&#8217;s OK to buy CityTV stations but must sell two religious stations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published: Friday, September 28, 2007 | 12:28 PM ET<br \/>\nCanadian Press: THE CANADIAN PRESS<\/p>\n<p>GATINEAU, Que. &#8211; Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX:RCI.A) got the CRTC&#8217;s approval Friday for its acquisition of the five Citytv stations in Toronto and four major western cities, although there were conditions attached by the federal regulator.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers struck a $375-million all-cash deal to acquire the Citytv television stations in June after the CRTC blocked CTVglobemedia from acquiring them as part of its purchase of Chum Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, CTVglobemedia had wanted to keep the CityTV television stations and sell its A-channel TV stations in smaller cities to Rogers, which is active in wireless telecommunications, cable distribution, radio, television, publishing and sports entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission said that it didn&#8217;t want one owner to have both CTV and Citytv television stations in the same markets.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Toronto, the other Citytv stations are in Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>CTVglobemedia was able to become a major radio broadcaster for the first time by acquiring Chum&#8217;s radio network. It also greatly enlarged the number of specialty cable channels it owns.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the CRTC said Friday that Rogers will be required to sell its two religious stations, CHNU-TV Fraser Valley and CIIT-TV Winnipeg within 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers Media also made a commitment to maintain independent news departments and separate presentation structures for its Citytv and Omni stations.<\/p>\n<p>The CRTC is also requiring Rogers Media to maintain Chum&#8217;s annual payments to programming and industry initiatives, including the Allan Waters Canadian Content Initiative &#8211; named in honour of the man who made Chum Ltd. into a major national broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>The CRTC also approved the $1.1-billion acquisition of Standard Radio&#8217;s 52 radio stations and two television stations by Montreal-based Astral Media Inc. (TSX:ACM.A).<\/p>\n<p>The Astral-Standard combination will create the country&#8217;s largest national radio networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogers gets CRTC&#8217;s OK to buy CityTV stations but must sell two religious stations Published: Friday, September 28, 2007 | 12:28 PM ET Canadian P&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/?p=3536\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jackjia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}