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Decision CRTC 99-395

  Ottawa, 30 August 1999
  CHWO Radio Limited
Oakville, Ontario – 199810213
  Application processed by Public Notice CRTC 1999-100 dated 21 June 1999
  Licence renewal for CHWO
  1. The Commission renews the broadcasting licence for CHWO Oakville, from 1 September 1999 to 31 August 2006, subject to the conditions specified in this decision and in the licence to be issued.
  2. By condition of licence, the licensee shall, as an exception to the percentage of Canadian musical selections set out in sections 2.2(8) and 2.2(9) of the Radio Regulations, 1986,
 

(a) in any broadcast week where at least 90% of musical selections from content category 2 that it broadcasts are selections released before 1 January 1981:

 

(i) in that broadcast week, excluding those periods referred to in paragraphs (b)(i) and (b)(ii), devote 30% or more of its musical selections from content category 2 to Canadian selections broadcast in their entirety; and

 

(ii) between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., in the period beginning on Monday of that week and ending on Friday of the same broadcast week, excluding those periods referred to in paragraphs (b)(i) and (b)(ii), devote 30% or more of its musical selections from content category 2 to Canadian selections broadcast in their entirety;

 

(b) in those periods of category 2 music:

 

(i) consisting exclusively of music composed before 1956, devote a weekly average of 2% or more of its musical selections from content category 2 broadcast during those periods to Canadian selections broadcast in their entirety;

 

(ii) consisting of 90% or more but not exclusively, of music composed before 1956, devote a weekly average of 10% or more of its musical selections from content category 2 broadcast during those periods to Canadian selections broadcast in their entirety.

  3. For purposes of this condition the terms "broadcast week", "content category" and "musical selection" shall have the meaning set out in section 2 of the Radio Regulations, 1986.
  4. With regard to the above-noted condition of licence, whenever requested by the Commission to submit information concerning the station’s broadcasting of Canadian music, the licensee must ascertain the date of composition of the selections it broadcasts and it must identify the programming periods which include the broadcast of pre-1956 musical selections and musical selections released before 1 January 1981 but after 1955.
  5. 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.
  Related CRTC documents

• Public Notice 1999-137 – New licence form for commercial radio stations

• Public Notice 1998-132 – Regulations amending the Radio Regulations, 1986 - Commercial Radio Programming

  Secretary General
  This decision is to be appended to the 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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