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Originally Posted by kermitology
I'm pretty sure it's part of the Canadian Content that the CRTC enforces. It's not a lot that they get, but it does add up when you're being played to death.
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I believe that whoever owns the publishing rights (often the song writers), gets paid some amount every time a song is played on the radio both in US and in Canada.
Part of Canada's problem is the CRTC is so limiting in granting radio station licences. It makes an FM frequency too valuable of a commodity. There aren't room for sub-genre niche stations. If start up costs were lower, and a FM frequency only cost what it should, there'd be a lot more room for niche stations. As it is, until recently, the only Cdn rock bands that got any air time are the ones that can be fit into the cjay-92 type format. There is no media outlet in Canada for those bands that don't fit.
Through technologies like the internet and sat. radio, and a thriving American indie infrastructure, Canadian bands that don't fit into cj's playlist are finally able to find an outlet to reach an audience, and are doing quite well at it.
Too bad though, that the Juno's don't pick up on the Canadian bands that people want to listen to, instead of the ones that CRTC is trying to force people to listen to. But, it is not a big surprise, really, as I am sure the CRTC/Juno nominators/Cdn corporate record labels/Canadian radio corps are all in bed together.