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===Multiple Access (1972–1979)===
In 1968, the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]] (CRTC) required that all broadcasting outlets be 80% Canadian owned. Canadian Marconi was a subsidiary of the UK-based [[General Electric Company plc]], and was forced to put its entire broadcasting division—CFCF-TV, CFCF (AM), CFQR-FM and CFCX—on the market. A deal to sell the stations to Ernie Bushnell, owner of [[CJOH-TV]] in [[Ottawa]], collapsed in the spring of 1971 when Bushnell was unable to secure the necessary financing.<ref>[http://broadcasting-history.ca/listing_and_histories/television/cfcf-dt CFCF-DT] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614005104/http://broadcasting-history.ca/listing_and_histories/television/cfcf-dt |date=June 14, 2021 }} at Canadian Communications Foundation</ref> Later in 1971, Canadian Marconi agreed to sell the stations to computer and telecommunications company [[Multiple Access Ltd.]], owned by the [[Bronfman family]].<ref name="CFCFArchivesLibraryArchivesCanada">{{cite web | author = Library and Archives Canada | author-link = Library and Archives Canada | title = Description of archived material: CFCF (Montreal) fonds | url = http://mikan3.archives.ca/pam/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=fre&rec_nbr=190543&rec_nbr_list=106964,97903,190543,190316,189452&print_version=yes | date = August 7, 2005 | access-date = December 2, 2007}}{{Dead link|date=October 2019|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> In so doing, Canadian Marconi earned a handsome return on its original investment in CFCF, which long claimed to be the oldest radio station in Canada.

Multiple Access bought the stations after the CRTC refused to approve purchase offers by [[Baton Broadcast System|Baton Broadcasting]], owner of CFTO (other CTV partners opposed the sale, and Baton was not interested in buying the radio stations without channel 12 being included in the purchase), and by [[CHUM Limited]] (because of indecision over which radio stations would be sold to meet radio ownership limits in Montreal). Multiple Access also was co-owner of [[CITY-TV]] in Toronto (with CHUM) during this time (both Baton and CHUM-CITY, minus CHUM's television stations, became CTVglobemedia, which was later in turn became [[Bell Media]], the current owner of CTV and CFCF).