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Ottawa, 9 July 1997
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Decision CRTC 97-306
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Laurentien Câble TV inc.
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Thurso, Plaisance and Papineauville; Montebello and Fassett; and Saint-André-Avellin, Quebec - 199610069 - 199610035 - 199610043
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Licence renewals
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1. Following Public Notice CRTC 1996-154 dated 13 December 1996, the Commission renews the licences held by Laurentien Câble TV inc., for the cable distribution undertakings serving the above-noted localities, from 1 September 1997 to 31 August 2004.
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2. The operation of these undertakings is regulated pursuant to Parts I, III and IV 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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3. The Commission notes that these undertakings are interconnected to the undertaking serving Buckingham, Masson and Angers, also owned by the licensee.
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4. 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 CFCF-TV (CTV) Montréal, CHRO-TV (CTV) Pembroke and CFMT-TV-2 (IND) Ottawa, received via optical fibre, as part of the basic service of each undertaking.
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5. The licensee is also authorized to distribute WNPE-TV (PBS) Watertown, WOKR-TV (ABC), WHEC-TV (NBC) and WROC-TV (CBS) Rochester, New York, received via optical fibre, as part of the basic service of each undertaking.
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6. The licensee is further authorized to distribute WUTV (FOX) Buffalo, New York, received via optical fibre, on a discretionary tier of each undertaking.
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7. Consistent with Decision CRTC 95-692 dated 21 September 1995, the licensee is authorized, by condition of licence, to insert, at its option, certain promotional material as a substitute for the "local availabilities" (i.e. non-Canadian advertising material) of non-Canadian satellite services. At least 75% of these local availabilities must be made available for use by licensed Canadian programming services for the promotion of their respective services, for the promotion of the community channel and for unpaid Canadian public service announcements. A maximum of 25% of the local availabilities may be made available for the promotion of discretionary programming services and packages, customer service information, channel realignments, cable FM service and additional cable outlets.
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8. It is a condition of each 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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9. The Commission notes that this licensee is subject to the Employment Equity Act that came into effect on 24 October 1996 (1996 EEA), and therefore files reports concerning employment equity with Human Resources Development Canada. As a result of a consequential amendment to the Broadcasting Act, the Commission no longer has the authority to apply its employment equity policy to any undertaking that is subject to the 1996 EEA.
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This decision is to be appended to each licence.
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Laura M. Talbot-Allan
Secretary General |
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This document is available in alternative format upon request.
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