Using the public airwaves is a privilege. As a result, the CRTC requires each campus and community radio station to follow certain regulations and conditions of licence in their broadcasting.

To help communities amplify their voices, the NCRA supports licenced c/c stations to get and stay compliant. 

Here are some of our resources:

• Regulatory Guide/Guide des politiques

This bilingual guide was produced in the summer of 2011 by David Meffe, the Regulatory Support Coordinator. His position was funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage's Young Canada Works program. It covers the basics of the Campus and Community Radio Policy CRTC 2010-499 in plain language, for use by station staff and their volunteers. Feel free to print, distribute and adapt for non-profit use, with acknowledgement. (Don't be fooled by the 2011-2012 on the cover, it continues to apply as long as the  CRTC 2010-499 policy does.)    

To download the complete French version of the guide, click here.

To download the complete English version of the guide, click here. 

By subject: 

Cover page
Page couverture

Table of Contents
Table des matières

New Policy at a Glance
Quoi de neuf

1. Mandate
1. Mandat

2. Canadian Content
2. Contenu canadien 

3. Category 2 Music 
3. Musique catégorie 2

4. Category 3 Music
4. Musique catégorie 3

5. Hits
5. Les grands succès

6. Spoken Word
6. Créations orales

7. Advertising
7. La publicité

8. Logs and Records
8. Registres et Enregistrements

9. Board Composition
9. Le conseil d'administration

10. Campus Instructional Stations
10. Les stations d'enseignement

11. French Language Stations
11. Les stations de langue française

Appendix
Annexe 

Glossary of c/c radio terms 
Un glossaire de termes

•  Sounds Cooperative Handbook/Pourquoi non cooperatif? 

This bilingual guide was produced in the Spring of 2012 by Zoe Creighton of Kootenay Co-op Radio CJLY-FM in Nelson, BC as part of that station's joint project with the NCRA, called "Sounds Cooperative". Funded by the Cooperative Development Initiative, a program of the Government of Canada, it aimed to explore and build on the existing connections between co-operatives and campus and community radio stations.