Act and Regulations applicable to all types of stations:

• Key Radio Regulations and Policies | CRTC

Standard conditions of licence for campus and community radio stations:

• Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2012-304
• (contains links to previous Campus and Community Radio policies):
  • Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2010-499

Radio Regulations

• Radio Regulations, 1986 ( SOR /86-982) (Government of Canada,  Justice Laws Website)
• Industry Canada Broadcasting Procedures and Rules
  • BPR 1 — General Rules
  • BPR-3 — Application Procedures and Rules for FM Broadcasting Undertakings
  • BETS-11 — Technical Requirements Respecting the Identification of Broadcasting Stations

Various campus radio stations – Licence renewals:

• Note that (as of 2025) the CRTC still considers CKMS-FM Radio Waterloo a campus radio station, not a community radio station. The Policy Committee has been working for years to correct this, and has received verbal acknowledgement from a CRTC representative.
• Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2023-76

Music, spoken word, and other categories for all broadcast content, needed for program logs:

• Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2022-333

Canadian Content (CanCon) requirements:

• Canadian content requirements for Canadian music on radio stations | CRTC
• The MAPL system uses music, artist, lyrics and performance to define Canadian songs | CRTC

TV and Radio Advertising Basics:

• TV and Radio Advertising Basics | CRTC
• Election campaigns and political advertising | CRTC

Ethnic broadcasting policy:

• Public Notice CRTC 1999-117
  • An ethnic program is one, in any language, that is specifically directed to any culturally or racially distinct group other than one that is Aboriginal Canadian or from France or the British Isles.
• Additional condition of licence applicable to CKMS-FM Waterloo, Ontario:
  • Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2023-76
  • The licensee shall devote, in each broadcast week, 15 hours to programming broadcast in third languages. This programming shall target a minimum of eight cultural groups in a minimum of eight languages.

This list was last checked and updated by Bob Jonkman on 27 November 2025.