CRTC Exhibit 3 - Review of the policy framework for local and community television programming Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2015-421

The Commission requires that certain parties respond to the following undertakings by 15 February 2016.

1. In some cases, advertisers will buy time on multiple platforms.

   1. Please provide the guidelines provided to your advertising sales representatives when they sell advertising bundles to potential advertisers.

   2. Please provide detailed explanations of how these advertising revenues are allocated to the different media assets, including conventional stations and discretionary services. Include all applicable accounting policies and procedures, and any formulae and variables considered in such allocation of revenues.

   3. Please provide the total advertising revenues generated by all your media services, both licensed and un-licensed including online video services, over the last 3 broadcast years. Also provide a detailed breakdown, for each year, of the amounts of revenues allocated to un-licensed services including online video services.

2. Please submit a document detailing the accounting policies and procedures regarding the allocation of corporate expenses (such as, but not limited to, the regulatory, human resources activities and facilities) across your different licensed services, including distribution, conventional stations and discretionary services, and un-licensed services (including exempt discretionary, distributions and online video services) that were in place during the broadcast year ended August 31, 2015.

   1. Please provide a detailed breakdown, for each of the last 3 broadcast years, of the allocation of these expenditures by service.

3. With respect to community channel:

   1. Provide the accounting policies and procedures regarding the allocation of revenues across regional licences and/or zones. More specifically, in cases where a system operates more than one community channel, provide detailed explanations as to how or on what factors the allocation of revenues is made.

   2. Please submit a document detailing the accounting policies and procedures regarding the allocation of direct and indirect expenses to community channels that were in place during the broadcast year ended August 31, 2015.  Clarify all expenditures including but not limited to capital, production and any other costs that are included in the production costs for access programming.

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2016-01-28