Both Tietolman's new 940 and Evanov's new 990 will be Francophone operations. The format at 940 will be "mainly spoken word, focused on news and public affairs, intended for an audience aged 35 and over." Evanov's new 990 AM will "offer a French-language spoken word and musical station for Montreal's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual community." George Evanov's company already does a similar format in Toronto, named "Proud 103.9." Canadian regulator CRTC received a total of five applications for the AM frequencies, and says it "received high-quality proposals, but was unfortunately unable to approve all of them." Today's decision follows an October 17-18 public hearing in Montreal. The 990 frequency opened up after Bell Media was allowed to move its all sports TSN station to 690.