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Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2006-46

  Ottawa, 7 April 2006
 

Revised lists of eligible satellite services

1. In Addition of ITVN to the lists of eligible satellite services for distribution on a digital basis, Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2006-44 (Public Notice 2006-44) and Addition of Sun TV to the lists of eligible satellite services for distribution on a digital basis Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2006-45 (Public Notice 2006-45), both issued today, the Commission has approved the addition of the non-Canadian third-language services ITVN and Sun TV to the lists of eligible satellite services for distribution on a digital basis.
2. Accordingly, in this notice, the Commission sets out revised lists of eligible satellite services reflecting the determinations in Public Notices 2006-44 and 2006-45. These lists replace those set out in Revised lists of eligible satellite services: Addition of GEO TV for distribution on a digital basis, Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2006-26, 1 March 2006, and reflect the addition of ITVN and Sun TV to the lists of eligible satellite services for distribution on a digital basis.
  Secretary General
  This document 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 

Appendix A to Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2006-46

List of Part 2 Eligible Satellite Services

Section A

   
  Learning and Skills Television of Alberta  
  Saskatchewan Communications Network (SCN)  
  Télé-Québec (STQ)  
  TVOntario (TVO and TFO)  
  Open Learning Agency (Knowledge Network)  
  Atlantic Satellite Network (ASN)  
  CFTU-TV Montréal IND*
  CBC English-language Television Service
CBC French-language Television Service
 
  WHDH-TV Boston/WGRZ-TV Buffalo/WPTZ Burlington/
WDIV Detroit/WICU-TV Erie/KARE Minneapolis/
KHQ-TV Spokane/KING-TV Seattle
NBC*
  WGBH-TV Boston/WNED-TV Buffalo/WETK Burlington/
WTVS Detroit/WQLN Erie/KSPS-TV Spokane/KCTS-TV Seattle
PBS*
  WBZ-TV Boston/WIVB-TV Buffalo/WCAX-TV Burlington/
WSEE Erie/WTOL-TV Toledo/WCCO-TV Minneapolis/
KREM-TV Spokane/KIRO-TV Seattle/WWJ-TV Detroit
CBS*
  WCVB-TV Boston/WKBW-TV Buffalo/WVNY Burlington/
WXYZ-TV Detroit/WJET-TV Erie/KSTP-TV Minneapolis/
KXLY-TV Spokane/KOMO-TV Seattle
ABC*
  WUTV Buffalo/WFFF-TV Burlington/WFTC Minneapolis/
WUHF Rochester/KAYU-TV Spokane/KCPQ Tacoma/
WFXT Boston
FOX*
  ART America  
  The Arts and Entertainment Network (A&E)  
  BBC World  
  Black Entertainment Television (BET)  
  Cable News Network (CNN)  
  CNN Headline News (CNN-2)  
  Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-Span)  
  Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC)  
  Court TV  
  Deutsche Welle  
  The Filipino Channel  
  The Golf Channel  
  The Learning Channel  
  Radio-France outre-mer (RFO1)*  
  The Silent Network (Kaleidoscope)  
  Speed Channel  
  Spike TV  
  TV Japan  
  TV Polonia  
  The Weather Channel (TWC)  
  WMNB-TV: Russian-American Broadcasting Company  
  Licensed pay audio programming undertaking(s)**  

Section B

   
  KSTW (IND) Tacoma/Seattle*  
  KTLA Los Angeles  
  KWGN-TV Denver  
  WGN-TV Chicago  
  WPIX New York City  
  WSBK-TV Boston  
  WTBS Atlanta  
  WUAB-TV (IND) Cleveland*  
  WWOR-TV New York City  
  American Movie Classics  
  Comedy Central  
  Game Show Network  
  Lifetime Television  
  Playboy TV***  
  Turner Classic Movies  
* Received from a licensed SRDU
** A pay audio programming undertaking may not be used for linkage purposes for the distribution of any non-Canadian eligible satellite services.
*** Playboy TV is only authorized for distribution at the specific request of a subscriber. Distributors are not permitted to package Playboy TV in such a way that subscribers are obligated to purchase Playboy TV in order to purchase any other programming service. Distributors are required to take measures to fully block the reception of both the audio and video portions of Playboy TV to subscribers that request it not be receivable in their home (in either unscrambled or scrambled analog form).
  Authorization for the services in Sections A and B is subject to the following:
  - In the case of signals received from a licensed SRDU, ASN, the CBC English- and French-language Television Services and foreign satellite services, licensees are required to enter into the necessary contractual arrangements for such carriage.
  - Licensees that distribute a PBS signal received at the local head end by terrestrial transmission may distribute one PBS service received from a licensed SRDU. All other licensees may distribute a maximum of two PBS services received from a licensed SRDU. Licensees may not distribute the signal of more than one affiliate of the same commercial U.S. network, received from a licensed SRDU, unless otherwise authorized pursuant to a condition of licence.

denotes a service in a language other than English or French added before 16 December 2004.

Section C

 
  List of Part 2 Eligible Satellite Services for Digital Distribution Only
  Al Jazeera*
  ART Movies
  Azteca 13 International
  Bloomberg Television
  Bridges TV
  BVN-TV
  Canal 52 MX
  Canal de las Estrellas Latinoamérica
  Canal SUR
  Channel One Russia Worldwide TV
  CineLatino
  Discovery Wings
  ET-Global Channel
  Eternal Word Television Network
  Eurochannel
  EuroNews
  Eurosportnews
  Fox News
  GEO TV
  German TV
  GMA Pinoy TV
  Grandes Documentales de TVE
  Indus Vision
  ITVN
  KTO
  Mezzo
  MSNBC
  Muslim Television Ahmadiyya
  Network TEN (Australia)
  New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV)
  NFL Network
  NTV Bangla
  Oxygen Network
  Paris-Première
  Phoenix North American Chinese Channel (PNACC)
  Planète
  Polsat 2 International
  PTV-Prime USA
  Radio Television Portugal International (RTPi)
  RAI International 2
  Romanian Television International (RTVI)
  RTV Palma
  Sahara One
  Sony Entertainment Television Asia (SET Asia)
  Sun TV
  Supercanal Caribe
  TELEFE Internacional
  TRACE TV
  TV Chile
  TVColombia
  TV Globo Internacional
  TV Land
  TVE Internacional
  TV3 Republic of Ireland
  TV3 Television Network (New Zealand)
  TV4 Television Network (New Zealand)
  Utilisima
* On the condition that the licensee has a condition of licence governing the distribution of Al Jazeera
  Authorization for the services in Section C is subject to the following:
  - Licensees are required to enter into the necessary contractual arrangements for carriage of these foreign satellite services.
  - Providers of these foreign services must have obtained and must remain in possession of all necessary rights for the distribution of their programming in Canada.
  - Providers of these foreign services must not hold, nor try to obtain, nor exercise, preferential or exclusive programming rights in relation to the distribution of programming in Canada.

denotes a service in a language other than English or French added before 16 December 2004.

Appendix B to Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2006-46

 

List of Part 3 Eligible Satellite Services

  Learning and Skills Television of Alberta  
  Saskatchewan Communications Network (SCN)  
  Télé-Québec (STQ)  
  TVOntario (TVO and/et TFO)  
  Open Learning Agency (Knowledge Network)  
  Atlantic Satellite Network (ASN)  
  Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN)  
  CBC English-language Television Service
CBC French-language Television Service
 
  The programming service of any licensed television programming undertaking*  
  WHDH-TV Boston/WGRZ-TV Buffalo/WPTZ Burlington/
WDIV Detroit/WICU-TV Erie/KARE Minneapolis/
KHQ-TV Spokane/KING-TV Seattle
NBC*
  WGBH-TV Boston/WNED-TV Buffalo/WETK Burlington/WTVS Detroit/
WQLN Erie/KSPS-TV Spokane/KCTS-TV Seattle
PBS*
  WBZ-TV Boston/WIVB-TV Buffalo/WCAX-TV Burlington/
WSEE Erie/WTOL-TV Toledo/WCCO-TV Minneapolis/
KREM-TV Spokane/KIRO-TV Seattle/WWJ-TV Detroit
CBS*
  WCVB-TV Boston/WKBW-TV Buffalo/WVNY Burlington/WXYZ-TV
Detroit/ WJET-TV Erie/KSTP-TV Minneapolis/KXLY-TV Spokane/
KOMO-TV Seattle
ABC*
  WUTV Buffalo/WFFF-TV Burlington/WFTC Minneapolis/WUHF Rochester/KAYU-TV Spokane/KCPQ Tacoma/WFXT Boston FOX*
  KSTW Tacoma/Seattle IND*
  WUAB-TV Cleveland IND*
  KTLA Los Angeles  
  KWGN-TV Denver  
  WGN-TV Chicago  
  WPIX New York City  
  WSBK-TV Boston  
  WTBS Atlanta  
  WWOR-TV New York City  
  American Movie Classics  
  ART America  
  The Arts and Entertainment Network (A&E)  
  BBC World  
  Black Entertainment Television (BET)  
  Cable News Network (CNN)  
  CNN Headline News (CNN-2)  
  Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-Span)  
  Comedy Central  
  Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC)  
  Court TV  
  Deutsche Welle  
  The Filipino Channel  
  Game Show Network  
  The Golf Channel  
  The Learning Channel  
  Lifetime Television  
  Playboy TV **  
  Radio-France outre-mer (RFO1)*  
  The Silent Network (Kaleidoscope)  
  Speed Channel  
  Spike TV  
  Turner Classic Movies  
  TV Japan  
  TV Polonia  
  The Weather Channel (TWC)  
  WMNB-TV: Russian-American Broadcasting Company  
  Licensed pay audio programming undertaking(s)  
* Received from a licensed SRDU
** Playboy TV is only authorized for distribution at the specific request of a subscriber. Distributors are not permitted to package Playboy TV in such a way that subscribers are obligated to purchase Playboy TV in order to purchase any other programming service. Distributors are required to take measures to fully block the reception of both the audio and video portions of Playboy TV to subscribers that request it not be receivable in their home (in either unscrambled or scrambled analog form).
  Authorization for the services in List of Part 3 Eligible Satellite Services is subject to the following:
  - In the case of out-of-province educational services, there should be no objection on the part of the originating service.
  - In the case of signals received from a licensed SRDU, ASN, the CBC English- and French-language Television Services and foreign satellite services, licensees are required to enter into the necessary contractual arrangements for such carriage.
  - In the case of licensed television programming undertakings offering TVA or CTV programming, a licensee also distributing the signal of a local TVA or CTV affiliate shall delete the duplicate programming from the services received from a licensed SRDU or substitute the local service(s) when the programming is identical.
  - Licensees that distribute a PBS signal received at the local head end by terrestrial transmission may distribute one PBS service received from a licensed SRDU. All other licensees may distribute a maximum of two PBS services received from a licensed SRDU. Licensees may not distribute the signal of more than one affiliate of the same commercial U.S. network, received from a licensed SRDU, unless otherwise authorized pursuant to a condition of licence.

denotes a service in a language other than English or French added before 16 December 2004.
  List of Part 3 Eligible Satellite services for Digital Distribution Only
  Al Jazeera*
  ART Movies
  Azteca 13 International
  Bloomberg Television
  Bridges TV
  BVN-TV
  Canal 52 MX
  Canal de las Estrellas Latinoamérica
  Canal SUR
  Channel One Russia Worldwide TV
  CineLatino
  Discovery Wings
  ET-Global Channel
  Eternal Word Television Network
  Eurochannel
  EuroNews
  Eurosportnews
  Fox News
  GEO TV
  German TV
  GMA Pinoy TV
  Grandes Documentales de TVE
  Indus Vision
  ITVN
  KTO
  Mezzo
  MSNBC
  Muslim Television Ahmadiyya
  Network TEN (Australia)
  New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV)
  NFL Network
  NTV Bangla
  Oxygen Network
  Paris-Première
  Phoenix North American Chinese Channel (PNACC)
  Planète
  Polsat 2 International
  PTV-Prime USA
  Radio Television Portugal International (RTPi)
  RAI International 2
  Romanian Television International (RTVI)
  RTV Palma
Sahara One
  Sony Entertainment Television Asia (SET Asia)
  Sun TV
  Supercanal Caribe
  TELEFE Internacional
  TRACE TV
  TV Chile
  TVColombia
  TV Globo Internacional
  TV Land
  TVE Internacional
  TV3 Republic of Ireland
  TV3 Television Network (New Zealand)
  TV4 Television Network (New Zealand)
  Utilisima
* On the condition that the licensee has a condition of licence governing the distribution of Al Jazeera.
  Authorization for the services eligible for digital distribution only are subject to the following:
  - Licensees are required to enter into the necessary contractual arrangements for carriage of these foreign satellite services.
  - Providers of these foreign services must have obtained and must remain in possession of all necessary rights for the distribution of their programming in Canada.
  - Providers of these foreign services must not hold, nor try to obtain, nor exercise, preferential or exclusive programming rights in relation to the distribution of programming in Canada.

denotes a service in a language other than English or French added before 16 December 2004.

Appendix C to Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2006-46

 

List of DTH Eligible Satellite Services

Section A

   
  ART America  
  The Arts and Entertainment Network (A&E)  
  BBC World  
  Black Entertainment Television (BET)  
  Cable News Network (CNN)  
  CNN Headline News (CNN-2)  
  Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-Span)  
  Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC)  
  Court TV  
  Deutsche Welle  
  The Filipino Channel  
  The Golf Channel  
  The Learning Channel  
  The Silent Network (Kaleidoscope)
  Speed Channel
  Spike TV
  TV Japan
  TV Polonia
  The Weather Channel (TWC)
  WMNB-TV: Russian-American Broadcasting Company
  Radio France outre-mer (RFO1)

Section B

 
  KSTW (IND) Tacoma/Seattle*
  KTLA Los Angeles*
  KWGN-TV Denver*
  WGN-TV Chicago*
  WPIX New York City*
  WSBK-TV Boston*
  WTBS Atlanta*
  WWOR-TV New York City*
  American Movie Classics
  Comedy Central
  Game Show Network
  Lifetime Television
  Playboy TV **
  Turner Classic Movies
* U.S. Superstation
** Playboy TV is only authorized for distribution at the specific request of a subscriber. Distributors are not permitted to package Playboy TV in such a way that subscribers are obligated to purchase Playboy TV in order to purchase any other programming service.
  Authorization for the services listed in Section A and Section B is subject to the following:
  - Licensees are required to enter into the necessary contractual arrangements for carriage of foreign satellite services.

denotes a service in a language other than English or French added before 16 December 2004.

Section C

 
  Al Jazeera*
  ART Movies
  Azteca 13 International
  Bloomberg Television
  Bridges TV
  BVN-TV
  Canal 52 MX
  Canal de las Estrellas Latinoamérica
  Canal SUR
  Channel One Russia Worldwide TV
  CineLatino
  Discovery Wings
  ET-Global Channel
  Eternal Word Television Network
  Eurochannel
  EuroNews
  Eurosportnews
  Fox News
  GEO TV
  German TV
  GMA Pinoy TV
  Grandes Documentales de TVE
  Indus Vision
  ITVN
  KTO
  Mezzo
  MSNBC
  Muslim Television Ahmadiyya
  Network TEN (Australia)
  New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV)
  NFL Network
  NTV Bangla
  Oxygen Network
  Paris-Première
  Phoenix North American Chinese Channel (PNACC)
  Polsat 2 International
  Planète
  PTV-Prime USA
  Radio Television Portugal International (RTPi)
  RAI International 2
  Romanian Television International (RTVI)
  RTV Palma
  Sahara One
  Sony Entertainment Television Asia (SET Asia)
  Sun TV
  Supercanal Caribe
  TELEFE Internacional
  TRACE TV
  TV Chile
  TVColombia
  TV Globo internacional
  TV Land
  TVE Internacional
  TV3 Republic of Ireland
  TV3 Television Network (New Zealand)
  TV4 Television Network (New Zealand)
  Utilisima
* On the condition that the licensee has a condition of licence governing the distribution of Al Jazeera
  Authorization for the services listed in Section C is subject to the following:
  - Licensees are required to enter into the necessary contractual arrangements for carriage of these foreign satellite services.
  - Providers of these foreign services must have obtained and must remain in possession of all necessary rights for the distribution of their programming in Canada.
  - Providers of these foreign services must not hold, nor try to obtain, nor exercise, preferential or exclusive programming rights in relation to the distribution of programming in Canada.

denotes a service in a language other than English or French added before 16 December 2004.

Appendix D to Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2006-46

List of Part 2, Part 3, and DTH Eligible
Satellite Services for Digital Distribution

  Al Jazeera*
  ART Movies
  Azteca 13 International
  Bloomberg Television
  Bridges TV
  BVN-TV
  Canal 52 MX
  Canal de las Estrellas Latinoamérica
  Canal SUR
  Channel One Russia Worldwide TV
  CineLatino
  Discovery Wings
  ET-Global Channel
  Eternal Word Television Network
  Eurochannel
  EuroNews
  Eurosportnews
  Fox News
  GEO TV
  German TV
  GMA Pinoy TV
  Grandes Documentales de TVE
  Indus Vision
  ITVN
  KTO
  Mezzo
  MSNBC
  Muslim Television Ahmadiyya
  Network TEN (Australia)
  New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV)
  NFL Network
  NTV Bangla
  Oxygen Network
  Paris-Première
  Phoenix North American Chinese Channel (PNACC)
  Planète
  Polsat 2 International
  PTV-Prime USA
  Radio Television Portugal International (RTPi)
  RAI International 2
  Romanian Television International (RTVI)
  RTV Palma
  Sahara One
  Sony Entertainment Television Asia (SET Asia)
  Sun TV
  Supercanal Caribe
  TELEFE Internacional
  TRACE TV
  TV Chile
  TVColombia
  TV Globo Internacional
  TV Land
  TVE Internacional
  TV3 Republic of Ireland
  TV3 Television Network (New Zealand)
  TV4 Television Network (New Zealand)
  Utilisima
* On the condition that the licensee has a condition of licence governing the distribution of Al Jazeera
  Authorization for the above-noted services is subject to the following:
  - Licensees are required to enter into the necessary contractual arrangements for carriage of these foreign satellite services.
  - Providers of these foreign services must have obtained and must remain in possession of all necessary rights for the distribution of their programming in Canada.
  - Providers of these foreign services must not hold, nor try to obtain, nor exercise, preferential or exclusive programming rights in relation to the distribution of programming in Canada.

denotes a service in a language other than English or French added before 16 December 2004.
 

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  Authorization for the services set out in all of the lists contained in Appendices A through D is subject to the following:
  When any of these lists of eligible satellite services are replaced by another list, the only authorized services will be those contained in the most recent list, accordingly these lists supersede the lists dated 1 March 2006.

Date Modified: 2006-04-07

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