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Cariboo Central Interior Radio Inc.
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Prince George, Vanderhoof and Fort St. James, British Columbia - 199703575 - 199703476
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Licence amendment and new FM radio programming undertaking
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1. Following a Public Hearing in the National Capital Region on 15 December 1997, the Commission approves the application by Cariboo Central Interior Radio Inc. (Cariboo) to amend the broadcasting licence for the radio programming undertaking CIRX-FM Prince George, by deleting the authority for the transmitters CIRX-FM-1 Vanderhoof and CIRX-FM-2 Fort St. James.
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2. The Commission also approves the application for a broadcasting licence for an English-language FM radio programming undertaking at Vanderhoof with a transmitter at Fort St. James, using the presently approved facilities of CIRX-FM-1 Vanderhoof and CIRX-FM-2 Fort St. James.
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3. Subject to the requirements of this decision, the Commission will issue a licence expiring 31 August 2004. This licence will be subject to the conditions specified in this decision and in the licence to be issued.
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4. Currently, the Vanderhoof and Fort St. James undertakings receive all of their programming from their originating station, CIRX-FM Prince George. Cariboo submitted these applications in response to demand from its listeners and advertisers for local programming and advertising specific to Vanderhoof and Fort St. James. Licensees who broadcast separate programming from the originating station must be issued a separate licence for a radio programming undertaking. Approval of these applications will allow the licensee to provide local programming inserts on CIRX-FM-1 Vanderhoof by means of a split-feed system. The Fort St. James transmitter will rebroadcast the Vanderhoof station's programming.
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5. Cariboo committed to make two minutes of programming time available eight times in each hour on CIRX-FM-1 Vanderhoof, or approximately 33 hours 30 minutes in each broadcast week, for local spoken word features or commercials. CIRX-FM-1 Vanderhoof will continue to receive most of its programming from CIRX-FM Prince George.
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6. The Commission's policy outlined in Public Notice CRTC 1993-121 entitled Local Programming Policy for FM Radio - Definition of a Single-Station Market, states that stations other than those in single-station markets, shall refrain from soliciting or accepting local advertising for broadcast during any broadcast week when less than one-third of the programming aired is local. Since Vanderhoof is not a single-station market, this approval represents an exception to the Commission's policy.
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7. In approving these applications, the Commission has taken into consideration the size of the market as well as the fact that Cariboo owns the other private radio stations in the area. Furthermore, the Commission notes that there were no opposing interventions to these applications.
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8. At the time of CIRX-FM-1's licence renewal, the Commission will review the licensee's performance with regard to its commitment to local programming, particularly as it relates to spoken word content of particular interest to the Vanderhoof and Fort St. James communities.
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9. The licensee is required, by condition of licence, to make payments to third parties involved in Canadian talent development at the level identified for it in the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' (CAB) Distribution Guidelines For Canadian Talent Development, as set out in Public Notice CRTC 1995-196 or as amended from time to time and approved by the Commission, and to report the names of the third parties associated with Canadian talent development, together with the amounts paid to each, on its annual return. The payments required under this condition of licence are over and above any outstanding commitments to Canadian talent development offered as benefits in an application to acquire ownership or control of the undertaking.
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10. It is a condition of licence that the licensee adhere to the guidelines on gender portrayal set out in the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' (CAB) Sex-Role Portrayal Code for Television and Radio Programming, as amended from time to time and accepted by the Commission. The application of the foregoing condition of licence will be suspended as long as the licensee remains a member in good standing of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.
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11. It is also a condition of licence that the licensee adhere to the provisions of the CAB's Broadcast Code for Advertising to Children, as amended from time to time and accepted by the Commission.
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12. 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.
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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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