Radio 2 and Espace Musique this week are introducing the first on-air advertisements on the CBC since the 1970s after the network was given permission to do so by the CRTC.

With a shortfall in its budget of $65 million or more, CBC is sharing the general crisis of the North American media. Now it may have to go back to running commercials on CBC Radio, a policy ...

The CBC has projected ad revenue from the two services at about $20-million annually, representing less than two per cent of the $1.6-billion commercial radio advertising market.