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Nexicom Communications Inc.
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Bancroft, Barry's Bay, Lakefield/ Bridgenorth, Millbrook and Whitney, Ontario - 199712782 - 199712790 - 199712808 - 199712815 - 199712823
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1. Following a Public Hearing in the National Capital Region beginning 16 February 1998, the Commission approves the applications by Nexicom Communications Inc. (Nexicom) for authority to acquire the assets of the cable distribution undertakings serving the above-mentioned localities from Shaw Cablesystems Ltd. (Shaw), or the subsidiary company that acquires the assets of these undertakings as a result of the approval granted in Decision CRTC 98-165 of today's date. The Commission also approves the applications for broadcasting licences to continue the operation of these undertakings.
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2. The Commission will issue Class 3 licences to Nexicom, expiring 31 August 2004, upon surrender of the current licences. The operation of these undertakings will be regulated pursuant to Parts 1 and 3 of the Broadcasting Distribution Regulations (the regulations). The authority granted herein is subject to the same conditions as those in effect under the current licences, as well as to those conditions specified in this decision or that may be specified in the licences to be issued.
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3. The price of the transaction is approximately $3,600,000. Based on the evidence filed with the applications, the Commission has no concerns with respect to the availability or the adequacy of the required financing.
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4. The licensee may receive any authorized signals over the air, or from any licensed or exempted Canadian broadcasting distribution undertaking authorized to provide signals to other broadcasting distribution undertakings.
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5. The licensee is relieved, by condition of licence, of the requirement of section 17 of the regulations that it distribute TFO, the French-language educational television programming service operated by TVOntario, on the basic band (channels 2 to 13) of the undertakings serving Bancroft and Barry's Bay, so long as the service is distributed as part of the basic service.
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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 Implementation 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 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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