{"id":3326,"date":"2023-11-27T13:58:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T17:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2024-03-08T12:44:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T16:44:46","slug":"executive-director-alex-freedman-appears-at-crtc-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/executive-director-alex-freedman-appears-at-crtc-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Director Alex Freedman Appears at CRTC Hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>OTTAWA, ON (November 27, 2023) &#8211; <\/strong>Our Executive Director Alex Freedman appeared at the public hearings done by the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunication Commission (CRTC) to speak about the vital role played by community radio in the overall media landscape.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the CRTC determines the future of broadcasting as well as the development of a regulatory framework to support Canadian and Indigenous content, it is clear that campus, community, and Indigenous radio take centre stage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn its recently-released policy direction, Canadian Heritage supports the commonly-held position that support must go to ensuring meaningful participation of Indigenous persons, equity-seeking groups, principles of diversity and inclusion, supporting Canadian programming, and specifically supporting community broadcasters,\u201d said Freedman at these hearings. \u201cCommunity, Indigenous, and campus stations play a role in every aspect of the objectives of the new legislation.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The CRFC was joined by its colleagues across the country, such as the NCRA and ARCQ, as well as campus-community radio stations we are proud to serve every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the full presentation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpac.ca\/episode?id=1e68caed-6146-4716-a79e-f0c9c1558d2c\">click here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please follow the Community Radio Fund of Canada <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/crfcfcrc\">on X (formerly Twitter)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/crfcfcrc\/\">Facebook,<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/community-radio-fund-of-canada\">LinkedIn<\/a> to learn more and to stay updated. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA, ON (November 27, 2023) &#8211; Our Executive Director Alex Freedman appeared at the public hearings done by the Canadian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3635,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions\/3635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}