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Public Notice CRTC 2000-157

Ottawa, 16 November 2000

New licence form for community radio stations

The Commission has revised the licence form for community radio stations. The conditions of licence generally applicable to all such stations will appear on the licence form. These conditions are shown in the appendix to this public notice.

Revision of the licence form

The Commission has set as an overall objective to simplify and harmonize its processes and procedures to lighten the administrative burden and increase efficiency.

In this regard, as it did for commercial radio, the Commission initiated a revision of the licence form for community radio stations. The revision follows the Community radio policy set out in Public Notice CRTC 2000-13 dated 28 January 2000.

Licence/decision combination

Previously, conditions of licence could be found on the licence form, in a licensee's Promise of Performance and in decisions. The Commission's new policy provides community radio stations streamlined administrative requirements eliminating, among other things, the Promise of Performance.

With this public notice, the Commission informs community radio licensees and other interested parties that all of the conditions of licence that generally apply to community radio stations will now appear on the licence form. Decisions granting, renewing or amending a licence will include those conditions of licence which represent a change from, or addition to, the standard conditions of licence which appear on the licence itself.

Licensees will get a clear and complete picture of their obligations by referring to the decision together with the licence resulting from it, as well as to any additional written authority granted during the licence term. At the subsequent renewal, the decision will reflect any authority granted during the previous licence term.

A complete list of the conditions of licence which will appear on the licence form for Type A, B and developmental community radio stations is provided in the appendix to this notice. When a decision granting or renewing a licence is issued, licensees can refer to this list, pending receipt of their licence from the Commission.

Related CRTC documents

• Public Notice 2000-93 - Regulatory amendments to implement certain aspects of the revised policies for campus and community radio, and incorporate revised content categories for radio
  

• Public Notice 2000-44 - Call for comments - Proposed regulatory amendments for the purpose of implementing certain aspects of the revised policies for campus radio and community radio, and incorporating revised content categories for radio

• Public Notice 2000-13 - Community radio policy

• Public Notice 2000-14 - Revised content categories and subcategories for radio

• Public Notice 1997-42 - Revised policy on the use of hits by English-language FM radio stations

• Public Notice 1995-60 - A review of certain matters concerning radio

• Public Notice 1993-121 - Local programming policy for FM radio - Definition of a single-station market

• Public Notice 1992-72 - A review of the CRTC's regulations and policies for radio

• Public Notice 1989-23 - Services using the vertical blanking interval (television) or subsidiary communications multiplex operation (FM)
  

Secretary General

This document is available in alternate format upon request and may also be examined at the following Internet site: http://www.crtc.gc.ca 

Conditions for Type A, B and developmental community stations

1. If the licensee originates 42 or more hours of programming in any broadcast week, 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 approved by the Commission.

2. It is 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 approved by the Commission.

3. The licensee shall not affiliate with or disaffiliate from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation without the prior written approval of the Commission.

4. Subject to paragraph 5, it is a condition of licence that the undertaking be operated on the basis of the contours and particulars contained in the approved application.

5. This licence is also subject to any other conditions of licence which are specified in the most recent renewal decision (other than an administrative renewal) or, if there has been no renewal, in the initial licensing decision, and in any subsequent written authorizations granted during the term of this licence.

Condition for FM stations only

6. As outlined in Public Notice 1989-23, as amended from time to time, it is a condition of licence that the licensee not use its Subsidiary Communications Multiplex Operation channel without the prior written approval of the Commission in order to distribute ethnic programs, where the time devoted to these programs represents more than 15% of the broadcast week and the licensee's service area overlaps an area already served by an ethnic station.

Conditions for Type A and B stations only

7. It is a condition of licence that the licensee devote, during each broadcast week, a minimum of 20% of its musical selections to musical selections from content subcategories other than the Pop, rock and dance subcategory (content subcategory 21), as defined in Public Notice CRTC 2000-14, as amended from time to time.

8. It is a condition of licence that the licensee devote, during each broadcast week, a minimum of 5% of its musical selections to musical selections from Special Interest Music (content category 3), as defined in Public Notice CRTC 2000-14, as amended from time to time.

Condition for Type B stations only

9. It is a condition of licence that the licensee devote, during each broadcast week, at least of 25% of its programming to Spoken Word (content category 1) which is comprised of News (content subcategory 11) and Spoken Word - Other (content subcategory 12), with an emphasis on community-oriented spoken word, as defined in Public Notice CRTC 2000-14, as amended from time to time.