Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission However, the CRTC is also sometimes erroneously criticized for CBSC decisions — for example, the CRTC was erroneously criticized for the CBSC's decisions pertaining to the airing of Howard Stern's terrestrial radio show in Canada in the late 1990s, as well as the CBSC's controversial ruling on the Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing". The commission is not fully equivalent to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, which has additional powers over technical matters, in broadcasting and other aspects of communications, in that country. In Canada, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (formerly Industry Canada) is responsible for allocating frequencies and
1970 radio ban part in the dispute. The ban did not extend to releases by American artists. Some radio disc jockeys, such as Stan Rofe, defied the ban by playing songs according to their personal tastes. Teen-oriented pop music newspaper "Go-Set" reported on the dispute: it interviewed affected musicians and its journalists argued for the removal of the ban. Once the ban was lifted, "status quo ante" resulted: APRA's record companies returned to supplying free promotional material and FARB's radio stations resumed playing their records. During the ban some Australian musicians recorded covers of UK artists' hits on previously minor labels. The Mixtures,