ARCHIVED - Decision CRTC 97-162
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Ottawa, 25 April 1997
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Decision CRTC 97-162
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CMD Cable Company Inc.
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Fort-Coulonge and Mansfield, Quebec- 199609749
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Licence renewal
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1. Following Public Notice CRTC 1996-154 dated 13 December 1996, the Commission renews the broadcasting licence held by CMD Cable Company Inc., for the cable distribution undertaking serving Fort-Coulonge and Mansfield, from 1 September 1997 to 31 August 2004.
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2. The operation of this undertaking is regulated pursuant to Parts I, III and IV of the Cable Television Regulations, 1986 (the regulations), and the licence will be subject to the conditions in effect under the current licence, as well as to those conditions specified in this decision and in the licence to be issued.
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3. An intervention was received from TVOntario objecting to the licensee's proposal to distribute TFO and TVO, TVOntario's educational television programming services, received via satellite.
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4. In reply, the licensee indicated that the proposed TVOntario signals are received over the air and not by satellite. The Commission notes that this proposal is in accordance with paragraph 24(1)(a) of the regulations which stipulates that a Part III licensee may distribute the programming service of "any television station that is received directly over the air at the local head end".
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5. In view of the foregoing, the Commission notes that the licensee will distribute the programming services of CICE-TV-16 (TVO) and CHLF-TV-13 (TFO), received over the air, at the local head end of the undertaking.
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6. It is a condition of licence that, for community programming and any other programming of a service that it originates, the licensee adhere to the guidelines on the depiction of violence in television programming set out in the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' "Voluntary Code Regarding Violence in Television Programming", as amended from time to time and approved by the Commission.
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7. In Public Notice CRTC 1992-59 dated 1 September 1992 and entitled "Imple-mentation 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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This decision is to be appended to the licence.
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Allan J. Darling
Secretary General |
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