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Ottawa, 14 August 1997
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Decision CRTC 97-436
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Radio communautaire de Harrington Harbour
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Harrington Harbour, Quebec - 199701082
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Licence renewal for CFTH-FM-1
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1. Following Public Notice CRTC 1997-38 dated 16 April 1997, the Commission renews the licence for the Type A community radio programming undertaking CFTH-FM-1 Harrington Harbour, from 1 September 1997 to 31 August 2001, 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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2. This term will enable the Commission to assess at an early date the licensee's adherence to the Radio Regulations, 1986 (the regulations).
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3. Subsections 8(5) and 8(6) of the regulations require each licensee to retain, for a period of at least four weeks from the date of broadcast, and furnish to the Commission upon request "a clear and intelligible tape recording or other exact copy of all matter broadcast".
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4. In this regard, the Commission requested the station's logger tapes of the programming broadcast on 18 June 1996. The licensee submitted related material pertaining to the programming aired on that day and informed the Commission that it was unable to submit the actual recordings of the programming. The licensee explained that, due to a malfunction, the logger tape equipment had failed to record the programming broadcast on the date in question.
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5. The Commission views with great concern the licensee's failure to comply with this regulatory requirement. It intends to monitor the licensee's performance during the new licence term, and directs the licensee to take all necessary measures to ensure that the regulations are adhered to at all times.
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6. In its renewal application, the licensee requested that the weekly maximum level of hits it is allowed to broadcast be increased from 40% to 70%. Having considered the application, the Commission is of the view that the licensee's circumstances do not warrant a departure from its long-standing practice of denying licence amendment applications filed by Iicensees who are in a state of non-compliance; it accordingly denies the Iicensee's application. It is therefore a condition of licence that the licensee restrict the use of hit material to less than 40% of all music selections broadcast during each broadcast week.
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7. The Commission notes that the station will broadcast a minimum of 10% Category 3 music (Traditional and Special Interest) as a percentage of overall music programming.
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8. 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. It considers that community radio stations should be particularly sensitive to this issue in order to reflect fully the communities they serve. It 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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Laura M. Talbot-Allan
Secretary General |
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