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Ottawa, 23 May 1997
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Decision CRTC 97-223
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Regional Cable TV Inc.
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Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon; Quebec - 199611455
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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 Regional Cable TV Inc., for the cable distribution undertaking serving Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, 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. In addition to the services required or authorized to be distributed pursuant to the applicable sections of the regulations, the licensee is authorized to distribute WPTZ (NBC) Plattsburgh, New York, as part of the basic service.
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4. The Commission approves the licensee's request to be authorized to distribute, at its option, the programming service of WDIV Detroit, Michigan, a duplicate NBC signal received via satellite from CANCOM, as part of the basic service.
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5. The licensee continues to be relieved, by condition of licence, of the requirement of paragraph 22(1)(b) of the regulations with respect to the distribution of priority service CIVC-TV (STQ) Trois-Rivières. The licensee distributes instead the programming of CIVM-TV (STQ) Montréal.
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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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