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Regional Cablesystems Inc.
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Sainte-Émilie-de-l'Énergie, Quebec - 199716586
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1. Following Public Notice CRTC 1998-13 dated 13 February 1998, the Commission approves, by condition of licence, the licensee's request to be relieved from the requirement of section 32(1)(b) of the Broadcasting Distribution Regulations to distribute the priority regional signal of CIVC-TV (STQ) Trois-Rivières. The licensee will distribute instead, CIVM-TV (STQ) Montréal, received via optical fibre from Saint-Félix-de-Valois, as part of the basic service.
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2. The Commission notes that CIVC-TV currently rebroadcasts, in its entirety, the programming of CIVM-TV. Should CIVC-TV begin offering local programming, the licensee will be required to distribute this regional service as part of the basic service of its undertaking or to apply to the Commission for a further exemption.
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3. The Commission notes that the licensee proposes to delete the local head end of the cable distribution undertaking serving Sainte-Émilie-de-l'Énergie and to interconnect this undertaking, via optical fibre, to the cable distribution undertaking serving Saint-Félix-de-Valois, also owned by the licensee.
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4. In view of this interconnection, the Commission authorizes the licensee to distribute, at its option, as part of the basic service of its undertaking serving Sainte-Émilie-de-l'Énergie, CFTU-TV (IND), CKMI-TV-1 (Global) Montréal, WVNY (ABC) Burlington, Vermont, WCFE-TV (PBS) and WPTZ (NBC) Plattsburgh, New York.
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5. The licensee is authorized to receive these signals over the air, or from any licensed or exempted Canadian broadcasting distribution undertaking authorized to provide signals to other broadcasting distribution undertakings. The Commmission notes that the licensee intends to receive the signals by optical fibre from the undertaking serving Saint-Félix-de-Valois.
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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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This document is available in alternative format upon request.
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