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Decision
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Ottawa, 6 April 1989
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Decision CRTC 89-130
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Edmonton, Bonnyville, Falher, Lethbridge, Red Deer, Peace River, Fort McMurray, Hinton, Grande Prairie, Plamondon, Jean-Côté, Medicine Hat and Calgary, Alberta - 881252100
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Following a Public Hearing in Edmonton on 14 November 1988, the Commission renews the broadcasting licences for CBXFT Edmonton and its rebroadcasters serving the other communities noted above from 1 September 1989 to 31 August 1994, subject to the conditions specified in the appendix to this decision and in the licences to be issued.
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CBXFT is owned and operated by the CBC and, for the most part, broadcasts the programming of the CBC French-language television network.
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The CBC has committed to broadcast, during the new licence term, 4 hours 30 minutes per week of locally-produced programs on CBXFT. In this regard, the Commission notes that the station's current program schedule includes a half-hour newscast each weekday and Sunday, a 39-episode weekly Albertan news magazine and "Génies en herbe", a student quiz show. The station also produces the general-interest cultural magazine "Autoroute électronique" and broadcasts "Vidéoclub", a regional weekly program produced in co-operation with other CBC regional stations.
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Further, the station contributes to network series, such as "Reflets d'un Pays", "Le Jour du Seigneur", "Le Téléjournal" and "Le Point". CBXFT proposes to participate in special projects with independent producers and government agencies, particularly Telefilm Canada.
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The Commission expects CBXFT to broadcast, at a minimum throughout the new licence term, the weekly amount of original local productions set out in its Promise of Performance.
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According to the financial projections provided with its renewal application, CBC will spend $3,104,000 on Canadian programming for CBXFT in the first year of the new licence term. The Commission notes that this amount includes the cost of production made for network distribution and that when these costs are deducted, the amount for local productions becomes $2,359,040, when calculated in accordance with the percentage allocation set out in the application submitted by the Corporation.
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The Commission has also noted the CBC's proposals for improving the services offered by its regional stations in the context of implementing its action plan for francophone communities outside the Province of Quebec, as described in the Public Notice CRTC 1988-143 dated 2 September 1988.
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In renewing these licences, the Commission also authorizes the CBC to make use of the Vertical Blanking Interval. The Commission expects the CBC to adhere to the guidelines set out in Appendix A to Public Notice CRTC 1989-23 dated 23 March 1989 entitled "Services Using the Vertical Blanking Interval (Television) or Subsidiary Communications Multiplex Operation (FM)".
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While the renewal application made no specific commitments to close caption local productions, the Commission encourages CBXFT, at a minimum, to provide deaf and hearing-impaired viewers with access to local news headlines through captions (open or closed) or signing during the new licence term.
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It also expects CBXFT, during the first year of the new licence term, to acquire a telephone device for the deaf (TDD) and install it wherever is most appropriate, such as in the master control room, to ensure access to the station by deaf and hearing-impaired viewers over the entire broadcast day.
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An intervention which was received from the Canadian Television Producers' and Directors' Association expressing concern about the mandate of CBC regional stations and the CBC Canadianization plan, is addressed in the Public Notice released today introducing this and other renewal decisions.
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Fernand Bélisle
Secretary General
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APPENDIX
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Conditions of licence for CBXFT Edmonton and its rebroadcasters CBXFT-1 Bonnyville, CBXFT-2 Falher, CBXFT-3 Lethbridge, CBXFT-4 Red Deer, CBXFT-5 Peace River, CBXFT-6 Fort McMurray, CBXFT-7 Hinton, CBXFT-8 Grande Prairie, CBXFT-9 Plamondon, CBXFT-10 Jean-Côté, CBXFT-11 Medicine Hat and CBRFT Calgary
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1. The licensee shall adhere to the CBC guidelines on sex-role stereotyping, as amended from time to time and approved by the Commission. Until such time as the Commission has approved the revised CBC guidelines, the CBC shall adhere to its current guidelines on sex-role stereotyping (as set out in Part C of Appendix A to Public Notice CRTC 1986-351 dated 22 December 1986) and, as a minimum, to the CAB's guidelines on sex-role stereotyping, as amended from time to time and approved by the Commission.
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2. The licensee shall adhere to the standards for children's advertising set out in the Corporation's Advertising Standards Policy C-5 dated 4 June 1986 and entitled "Advertising Directed to Children Under 12 Years of Age", as amended from time to time and approved by the Commission, provided that the policy meets, as a minimum, the standards set out in the CAB's The Broadcast Code for Advertising to Children, revised in January 1988, as amended from time to time and approved by the Commission.
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Further, the licensee shall not broadcast any commercial message during any child-directed programming or any child-directed commercial message between programs directed to children of pre-school age. For the purpose of this condition, programs directed to children and scheduled before 12:00 noon during school-day morning hours will be deemed to be programs directed to children of pre-school age.
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