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Decision

Ottawa, 13 August 1998
Decision CRTC 98-293
Taber Cable Television Ltd.
Licence renewal
1. Following Public Notice CRTC 1998-39 dated 22 April 1998, the Commission renews the Class 3 licence held by Taber Cable Television Ltd. for the cable distribution undertaking serving the above-noted locality, from 1 September 1998 to 31 August 2005.
2. The operation of this undertaking is regulated pursuant to Parts 1 and 3 of the Broadcasting Distribution Regulations. 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.
3. 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.
4. Consistent with Decision CRTC 95-922 dated 21 December 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.
5. 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.
6. 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 broad-casters 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.
7. In accordance with subsection 22(1) of the Broadcasting Act (the Act), this renewal is subject to the issuance of a Broadcasting Certificate by the Department of Industry.
8. The Commission draws the licensee's attention to subsection 22(4) of the Act which provides that any broadcasting licence issued, amended or renewed in contravention of section 22 of the Act is of no force or effect.
This decision is to be appended to the licence.
Laura M. Talbot-Allan
Secretary General
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