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Public Notice

Ottawa, 4 November 1991
Public Notice CRTC 1991-117
RÉSEAU PATHONIC INC.
CFCM-TV OUEBEC CITY, Quebec
WHEREAS Télé-Métropole Inc., Montréal, Quebec (Télé-Métropole), which controls Réseau Pathonic Inc., the licensee of CFCM-TV Quebec City has filed with the Commission an application (911933000) to amend its condition of licence by reducing from 21 hours to 10 hours per week the amount of original local productions that the station is required to broadcast;
WHEREAS Télé-Métropole has conceded that only 5 hours 45 minutes per week of original local productions were broadcast on CFCM-TV during the summer, thus confirming the results of the Commission's programming analysis;
WHEREAS the Commission has received 197 written complaints to date concerning the decrease in local programming on CFCM-TV and the licensee has responded to all of these complaints:
WHEREAS the Commission is currently examining applications for the licence renewal of private French-language television stations and has scheduled a public hearing in March of 1992 to hear these renewals, including that of CFCM-TV;
Given the Rules of procedure governing such licence amendment applications, the Comission has determined that it would not be practical to consider this amendment application at a hearing separate from the one to be held in the spring of 1992, at which the station's renewal application will be heard .
At that hearing the Commission will expect the licensee to demonstrate why the Commission should renew CFCM-TV's licence for a full term and how the new proposals, as filed, respond to the needs and legitimate expectations of the residents of the Quebec City area.
The Commission will also wish to review the role of CFCM-TV as perceived by Télé-Métropole Inc.
The parties who filed complaints regarding the decrease in CFCM-TV service will be considered as interveners to the licence amendment application, and will have intervener status at the Public Hearing to be held in Nontreal beginning on 24 March 1992, where CFCM-TV's licence renewal application will be considered.
Allan J. Darling
Secretary General

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