ARCHIVED - Decision CRTC 95-600
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Ottawa, 25 August 1995
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Decision CRTC 95-600
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Bass River Cable Services Limited
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Bass River; Great Village and Glenholme; Maitland and Selma; Masstown; Middle Stewiacke; and Upper North River, Nova Scotia - 941183600 - 941184400 - 941185100 - 941186900 - 941187700- 941188500
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Licence renewals
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Following Public Notice CRTC 1995-10 dated 20 January 1995, the Commission renews the licences held by Bass River Cable Services Limited, for the cable distribution undertakings serving the above-noted communities, from 1 September 1995 to 31 August 2002.
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The operation of these undertakings is regulated pursuant to Parts I and III of the Cable Television Regulations, 1986 (the regulations) and the licences will be subject to the conditions in effect under the current licences, as well as to those conditions specified in this decision and in the licences to be issued.
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The licensee is authorized, by condition of licence, to distribute the programming service of the Atlantic Satellite Network (ASN), received via satellite, provided that it is distributed on an unrestricted channel of the basic service of each undertaking.
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In Public Notice CRTC 1992-59 dated 1 September 1992 and entitled "Implementation of an Employment Equity Policy", the Commission announced that the employment equity practices of broadcasters would be subject to examination by the Commission. In this regard, the Commission encourages the licensee to consider employment equity issues in its hiring practices and in all other aspects of its management of human resources.
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Upper North River
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The licensee is relieved, by condition of licence, from the requirement of paragraph 22(1)(b) of the regulations that it distribute regional service CJCB-TV-2 Antigonish, in view of the poor reception quality of the signal. The Commission notes that the licensee distributes instead CJCH-TV Halifax.
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Bass River, Great Village, Maitland, Middle Stewiacke and Upper North River
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The Commission notes that the licensee is currently distributing a greater number of American than Canadian services. Pursuant to section 26 of the regulations, licensees are required to devote a greater number of the video channels of their undertakings to the distribution of Canadian programming services than to the distribution of non-Canadian programming services. Accordingly, the Commission requires the licensee to submit a report, within six months of the date of this decision, indicating that it has complied with the requirements of the regulations.
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Bass River
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The Commission acknowledges the intervention submitted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, noting that the licensee distributes Cable News Network (CNN) on the Bass River undertaking, but not Newsworld nor the Réseau de l'information (RDI) and expressing its wish that the licensee consider the distribution of Newsworld and RDI.
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In reply, the licensee stated that in the near future it would be willing to replace CNN with Newsworld.
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While the Commission notes that Newsworld and RDI are not priority programming services, it reiterates the importance of Canadian programming services being given the widest possible distribution. The Commission expects the licensee to take into consideration the Canadian Cable Television Association (CCTA) Access Commitment with respect to the carriage of licensed Canadian services in deciding whether to make Newsworld and RDI available to its subscribers.
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Allan J. Darling
Secretary General |
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