The regulator of Canada’s broadcast industries is telling two francophone radio stations in Montreal that they must limit their use of musical montages.
Musical montages are a compilation from a number of songs played without interruption, so that it’s counted as a single piece under federal broadcasting rules.
The montages can be used towards a regulated broadcaster’s Canadian content or French-language vocal content.
However, the regulator said the two radio stations have used too much popular English-language and non-Canadian music in their long montages.
The CRTC’s order applies to CKTF-FM, owned by Astral Media, and CKOI-FM, which belongs to Cogeco.
But the CRTC said it may impose similar conditions to all broadcasters that allot more than 10% of the programming each week to such montages.
