CRTC allows advertising on CBC Radio 2 and Espace Musique

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has been given permission by regulators to air commercials on its secondary French and English radio networks, likely by this fall.

But critics charge that the controversial decision to allow the commercialization of Radio 2 and Espace Musique has created a “slippery slope” that will change the face of the public broadcaster forever.

The decision announced Tuesday is so polarizing that even commissioners on the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the federal regulator that granted the public broadcaster permission, were at odds.
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