CRTC approves TTP Media’s English news-talk station at 600AM
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on Friday approved an application by 7954689 Canada Inc., better known as Tietolman-Tétrault-Pancholy Media, to create an...
View ArticleCRTC proceeds with TTP application for French sports talk at 850AM
An application I told you about in September, for an all-sports radio station at 850AM, was published on Wednesday by the CRTC and will be considered at a hearing in March. The proposed station would...
View ArticleCRTC approves TTP Media’s French-language sports radio station at 850AM
Two years after CKAC abandoned the all-sports format to switch to a government-subsidized all-traffic station, Montreal is one step closer to getting a French-language all-sports radio station again....
View ArticleStatus report: How things are changing at Montreal TV and radio stations
Last fall, I wrote for The Gazette that there were a lot of changes going on at local TV and radio stations. This year, 2013, is turning out to be the biggest one for local broadcasting in decades,...
View ArticleWhat happened to TTP Media?
Over the past few months, one of the questions I’ve been asked a lot is what is going on with the group known as TTP Media. The group, composed of businessmen Paul Tietolman, Nicolas Tétrault and Rajiv...
View ArticleCRTC filing gives reasons for TTP Media delay
TTP Media, the company of three Montreal businessmen who have three licences for AM radio stations and hasn’t launched any of them yet, remains quiet. I haven’t heard anything from them since I wrote...
View ArticleTTP Media says news-talk stations are six to nine months until launch
Every now and then people ask me about the Tietolman-Tétrault-Pancholy group, which has licenses for three high-power AM talk radio stations in Montreal, the first one granted in 2011, but hasn’t made...
View ArticleTTP Media gets extension for 850 AM, plans to move transmission site
Nine months after it said it was six to nine months from launching, there’s still radio silence from TTP Media (7954689 Canada Inc.) about its news-talk AM radio stations in Montreal at 600 and 940...
View ArticleCRTC changes its mind, gives TTP Media yet another extension on AM radio...
Le Conseil proroge le délai de mise en exploitation de ce service jusqu’au 21 novembre 2015. À défaut de respecter ce nouveau délai, l’autorité accordée dans la Décision 2011-721 deviendra nulle et...
View ArticleTTP Media abandons 850 AM, shows no progress on other unlaunched stations
For the past five years, one of the most common questions I’ve been asked by people in the local broadcasting industry is what’s going on with TTP Media, a group of local businessmen who won CRTC...
View ArticleTTP Media comes back from the dead with weeks to go until deadline
After five years of almost nothing happening, could the mythical TTP Media be on course to get an AM radio station on the air in a month? Though it looked this summer as if the company had all but...
View ArticleTTP Media’s CFNV 940 AM begins on-air testing
After occasional sputters of an audible tone a few hours a day over a few weeks, 940 AM has actual audio for the first time in almost seven years as TTP Media’s first AM radio station has officially...
View ArticleCRTC gives TTP Media until June 30 to launch English radio station at 600 AM
For the fourth time in as many years, a group owned by a trio of Montreal businessmen has appealed to the CRTC for an extension on their deadline to launch a new AM radio station, claiming that...
View ArticleAs CFQR 600 AM begins on-air testing, TTP Media remains committed to...
UPDATE (June 30): The station says it has officially launched. For the first time in 17 years, Montrealers are beginning to hear a local station at 600 on the AM dial. TTP Media, which has been...
View ArticleCFQR 600 AM launches with hours to go before deadline
#CFQR600AM #Montreal #Quebec #Canada Left: Gilles GuimontCenter: Rajiv Pancholy, PartnerRight: @NicolasTetrault Partner@fagstein #radio pic.twitter.com/qiZpuL4fhy — Nicolas Tetrault??...
View ArticleTTP Media says it’s unaffected by partner’s bankruptcy
Nicolas Tétrault, one of three equal partners in 7954689 Canada Inc., doing business as TTP Media, declared personal bankruptcy last year, but he and company president Rajiv Pancholy insist that has no...
View ArticleTTP Media’s CFNV 940 plans to change format as it seeks licence renewal
The process to launch TTP Media’s talk radio stations in Montreal has taken so long that they’re now in the process of getting their licences renewed after the end of their initial seven-year term. And...
View ArticleCFNV 940 AM begins simulcasting programming from online radio station
Several radio watchers have noticed that they’ve been hearing live voices on CFNV 940 AM the past few days, talking between the songs and giving weather and news updates. Though the programming is...
View ArticleTTP Media seeks international investors for AM radio stations
It’s been nine years since a pair of local businessmen came onto the scene and declared they wanted to change how commercial radio works in this city with an $81-million bid for Corus radio stations in...
View ArticleTTP Media’s 600 and 940 stations go off the air
Damage to the transmitter caused by a wind storm caused TTP Media’s two Montreal radio stations to go off the air, and the need to order parts means it will be early in the new year before they’re...
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