ARCHIVED - Decision CRTC 99-226
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Ottawa, 13 August 1999
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Decision CRTC 99-226
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Omineca Cablevision Ltd.
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Burns Lake, and Vanderhoof, British Columbia - 199807708 - 199807723
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Licence renewals
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1. The Commission renews the Class 3 licences for the cable distribution undertakings serving the above-noted communities, from 1 September 1999 to 31 August 2006.
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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.
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3. The licensee is relieved, by condition of licence, from the requirement of section 32(1)(a) of the regulations to distribute the priority station CKHS-TV (CTV) Burns Lake. The Commission notes that CTV programming will continue to be provided to subscribers through carriage of CHAN-TV (CTV) Vancouver. The Commission also notes that the licensee will receive this signal via satellite.
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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 authorized, by condition of each 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.
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6. 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 Decision CRTC 95-920 dated 21 December 1995.
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7. 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.
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8. 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. It is available in alternative format upon request, and may also be viewed at the following Internet site: www.crtc.gc.ca
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Secretary General
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