ARCHIVED - Decision CRTC 2000-109
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Decision CRTC 2000-109 |
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| Ottawa, 20 April 2000 | |
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Monarch Cablesystems Ltd. Medicine Hat, Alberta - 199918505 - 200000290 |
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Applications processed by Public Notice CRTC 2000-31 dated 25 February 2000 |
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Addition of CKEM-TV, CICT-TV and CJON-TV |
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| 1. | The Commission approves the applications for authority to distribute CKEM-TV (IND) Edmonton, CICT-TV (IND) Calgary and CJON-TV (CTV) St. John's, as part of a discretionary tier of the cable distribution undertaking serving Medicine Hat. |
| 2. | The Commission is satisfied that the distribution of CKEM-TV, CICT-TV and CJON-TV is in line with the guidelines on the cable distribution of distant Canadian television signals as set out in Public Notice CRTC 1993-74. |
| 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. The Commission notes that the licensee will receive the above-noted signals via satellite. |
| 4. | In its policy statement on violence in television programming, the Commission encouraged programming undertakings whose signals are distributed over various time zones to be sensitive to viewers in western time zones when scheduling programs (see Public Notice CRTC 1996-36 dated 14 March 1996). |
| 5. | There is a three and one-half hour time difference between Medicine Hat and St. John's. This means that programs with scenes of violence intended for adults that are broadcast on CJON-TV after the "watershed" hour of 9:00 p.m., as required by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Voluntary Code Regarding Violence in Television Programming, could be distributed on the Medicine Hat undertaking before 9:00 p.m. |
| 6. | Accordingly, the Commission expects CJON-TV to be sensitive to the time zone differences in scheduling programs containing scenes of violence intended for adults. |
| Secretary General | |
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Date Modified: 2000-04-20
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