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Ottawa, 27 August 1998
Decision CRTC 98-371
Northern Cable Holdings Limited
Belle Vallée; Charlton; Cobalt; Elk Lake; Englehart; Latchford; Mattawa; Noelville; Powassan; Temagami North; and Temagami South, Ontario - 199709135 - 199709151 - 199709169 - 199709177- 199709185 - 199709201 - 199709234 - 199709250 - 199709268 - 199709292- 199709300
Licence renewals
1. Following Public Notice CRTC 1998-39 dated 22 April 1998, the Commission renews the Class 3 licences held by Northern Cable Holdings Limited, for the cable distribution undertakings serving the above-noted localities, from 1 September 1998 to 31 August 2005.
2. The operation of these undertakings is regulated pursuant to Parts 1 and 3 of the Broadcasting Distribution Regulations (the regulations). 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.
3. The licensee is authorized to distribute, at its option, CFVS-TV-1 (TQS) Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, WGTQ (ABC) Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and WWUP (CBS) Cadillac, Michigan, as part of the basic service of the Cobalt undertaking. The Commission notes that the licensee intends to receive CFVS-TV-1 via satellite and the above-noted U.S. signals by microwave.
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.
5. Consistent with Decision CRTC 95-591 dated 24 August 1995, the licensee is authorized to originate a video games service as a special programming service, offered on a discretionary basis, subject to the conditions of licence listed in that decision.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Radio Nord inc., licensee of CFGS-TV (TQS) Hull, filed an intervention pointing out that Northern Cable Holdings Limited does not distribute a number of its television stations, namely CHOT-TV (TVA) Hull, CFEM-TV (TVA) and CKRN-TV (SRC) Rouyn-Noranda and CFVS-TV (TQS) Val d'Or. In its reply to the intervention, the licensee indicated that these stations are not priority signals for any of the undertakings in question, as defined in the regulations and that it is not required to distribute them. The Commission notes that the licensee nevertheless distributes CHOT-TV at Mattawa.
This decision is to be appended to each licence.
Laura M. Talbot-Allan
Secretary General
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