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Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2008-33 |
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Ottawa, 20 February 2008 |
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Pelmorex Communications Inc.
Across Canada |
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Application 2007-1081-5, received 23 July 2007
Public Hearing in London, Ontario
10 December 2007 |
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The Environment Network - Category 2 specialty service |
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The Commission approves an application for a broadcasting licence to operate a new Category 2 specialty programming undertaking. |
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Pelmorex Communications Inc. (Pelmorex) filed an application for a broadcasting licence to operate The Environment Network, a national, English-language Category 2 specialty service devoted to programming related to climate change, the environment, the science of meteorology, hydrology, natural disasters and related matters. The proposed service would not broadcast any local weather forecasts and no more than 15% of the programming would be drawn from category 7 - Drama and comedy. |
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The Commission received interventions in support of this application. An opposing intervention by The Environment Network, an organization committed to a proactive approach to environmental management, expressed concern that the proposed service would replicate the name of the intervener's organization. In response, Pelmorex stated that the name proposed in the application is only a working title that may, or may not, be ultimately implemented. |
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The Commission is satisfied that the application is in conformity with all applicable terms and conditions announced in Public Notice 2000-171-1 and in Broadcasting Public Notice 2007-54. Accordingly, the Commission approves the application by Pelmorex Communications Inc. for a broadcasting licence to operate the national, English-language Category 2 specialty programming undertaking The Environment Network. The terms and conditions of licence are set out in the appendix to this decision. |
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Secretary General |
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Related documents |
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- A new policy with respect to closed captioning, Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2007-54 17 May 2007
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- Introductory statement - Licensing of new digital pay and specialty services - Corrected Appendix 2, Public Notice CRTC 2000-171-1 6 March 2001
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- Licensing framework policy for new digital pay and specialty services, Public Notice CRTC 2000-6, 13 January 2000
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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. |
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Appendix to Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2008-33 |
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Terms and conditions of licence for the Category 2 specialty programming undertaking The Environment Network |
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Terms |
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A licence will be issued once the applicant has satisfied the Commission, with supporting documentation, that the following requirements have been met: |
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- the applicant has entered into a distribution agreement with at least one licensed distributor; and
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- the applicant has informed the Commission in writing that it is prepared to commence operations. The undertaking must be operational at the earliest possible date and in any event no later than 36 months from the date of this decision, unless a request for an extension of time is approved by the Commission before 20 February 2011. In order to ensure that such a request is processed in a timely manner, it should be submitted at least 60 days before that date.
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The licence will expire 31 August 2014. |
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Conditions of licence |
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1. The licence shall be subject to the conditionsset out in Introductory statement - Licensing of new digital pay and specialty services - Corrected Appendix 2, Public Notice CRTC 2000-171-1, 6 March 2001 and A new policy with respect to closed captioning, Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2007-54, 17 May 2007.
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2. The licensee shall provide a national, English-language Category 2 specialty programming service devoted to programming related to climate change, the environment, the science of meteorology, hydrology, natural disasters and related matters.
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3. The programming shall be drawn exclusively from the following categories set out in item 6 of Schedule I to the Specialty Services Regulations, 1990, as amended from time to time:
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1 News
2 (a) Analysis and interpretation
(b) Long-form documentary
3 Reporting and actualities
5 (b) Informal education/Recreation and leisure
7 (c) Specials, mini-series or made-for-TV feature films
(d) Theatrical feature films aired on TV
11 General entertainment and human interest
12 Interstitials
13 Public service announcements
14 Infomercials, promotional and corporate videos
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4. No more than 15% of the programming during the broadcast year shall be drawn from category 7.
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5. The licensee shall not broadcast local weather forecasts.
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6. In order to ensure that the licensee complies at all times with the Direction to the CRTC (Ineligibility of non-Canadians), P.C. 1997-486, 8 April 1997, as amended by P.C. 1998-1268, 15 July 1998, the licensee shall file, for the Commission's prior review, a copy of any programming supply agreement and/or licence trademark agreement it intends to enter into with a non-Canadian party.
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For the purposes of the conditions of this licence, including condition of licence no. 1, broadcast day means the period of up to 18 consecutive hours, beginning each day not earlier than six o'clock in the morning and ending not later than one o'clock in the morning of the following day, as selected by the licensee, or any other period approved by the Commission. |
Date Modified: 2008-02-20 |