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Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2006-316

  Ottawa, 26 July 2006
  Sur Sagar Radio Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
  Application 2006-0145-2
Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2006-49
12 April 2006
 

Deadline to commence operations

  In this decision, the Commission approves an application by Sur Sagar Radio Inc. to amend the broadcasting licence for the transitional digital radio programming undertaking at Toronto to extend the deadline to commence operations.
 

The application

1.

The Commission received an application by Sur Sagar Radio Inc. to amend the broadcasting licence for the transitional digital radio programming undertaking at Toronto, by amending the following condition of licence:
 

14. The undertaking must be operational at the earliest possible date and in any event no later than 31 March 2006.

  and replacing it with the following condition:
 

14. The undertaking must be operational at the earliest possible date and in any event no later than 31 March 2007.

2.

The Commission did not receive any interventions in connection with this application.
 

Commission's analysis and determination

3.

In Review of the Commercial Radio Policy, Broadcasting Notice of Public Hearing CRTC 2006-1, 13 January 2006, the Commission called for comments with respect to a review of its Commercial Radio Policy.1 This call for comments addressed, among other topics, changes to the Transitional Digital Radio Policy.2

4.

In Transitional digital radio programming undertakings, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2006-262, 23 June 2006 (Decision 2006-262), the Commission administratively renewed the broadcasting licences for a number of transitional digital radio programming undertakings across Canada, from 1 September 2006 to 31 August 2007. This extension will permit the Commission to consider the renewal of these undertakings in light of any amendments to the Transitional Digital Radio Policy.

5.

In Decision 2006-262, the Commission noted that a number of these undertakings had not yet commenced operations and accordingly, extended the existing deadlines to commence operations to 31 August 2007.

6.

Consistent with that decision, the Commission approves the application by Sur Sagar Radio Inc. to amend the broadcasting licence for the transitional digital radio programming undertaking at Toronto to extend, to 31 August 2007, the deadline by which the operation of this undertaking must commence. The condition of licence is as follows:
 

14. The undertaking must be operational at the earliest possible date and in any event no later than 31 August 2007.

 

Issuance of the licence

7.

The licence for this undertaking will be issued once the applicant has informed the Commission in writing that it is prepared to commence operations.
  This decision is to be appended to the licence. It is available in alternative format upon request, and may also be examined in PDF format or in HTML at the following Internet site: www.crtc.gc.ca 
  Footnotes:
 1 Commercial Radio Policy 1998, Public Notice CRTC 1998-41, 30 April 1998

2 A policy to govern the introduction of digital radio, Public Notice CRTC 1995-184, 29 October 1995

Date Modified: 2006-07-26

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