In addition to the services required or authorized to be distributed pursuant to the applicable sections of the regulations, the licensee is authorized to continue to distribute, at its option, CFMT-TV Toronto and CHCH-TV Hamilton, as well as WDIV (NBC), WJBK-TV (CBS) and WXYZ-TV (ABC) Detroit, Michigan, received via microwave, as part of the basic service. Consistent with Decision CRTC
87-279, Maclean Hunter is relieved, by condition of licence, of the requirement of paragraph 9(1)(b) of the regulations to distribute the French-language programming service operated by TVOntario ("La Chaîne française") on the basic band (channels 2 to 13). The Commission notes that the licensee will continue to distribute this service as part of the basic service.