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Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2008-107
  Ottawa, 16 January 2009
  Bruce Telecom
Tiverton, Paisley, Port Elgin, Kincardine and Southampton, Ontario
  Application 2008-1436-0, received 27 October 2008
 

Licence amendments

1.

The Commission approves the application by Bruce Telecom to amend the broadcasting licence for the regional video-on-demand (VOD) programming undertaking to serve Tiverton, Paisley, Port Elgin, Kincardine and Southampton, Ontario in order to authorize it to distribute programming that contains commercial messages where those messages were already included in a program previously aired by a Canadian programming service, the program's inclusion as part of the VOD offering is in accordance with the terms of a written agreement entered into with the operator of the Canadian programming service that broadcast the program and the program is offered on an on-demand basis at no charge to the subscriber. The Commission did not receive any interventions in connection with this application.

2.

The Commission notes that it has approved applications for amendments to the broadcasting licences for VOD programming undertakings to permit them to offer programming that includes commercial messages subject to the same restrictions proposed by the licensee. In these decisions, the Commission indicated that the approval of these applications "would not represent a significant departure from the Commission's framework for the licensing of VOD undertakings."

3.

Accordingly, the Commission replaces the current condition of licence 1 by the following conditions:
 

The licensee shall adhere to the Pay Television Regulations, 1990, as amended from time to time, with the exception of section 3(2)(d) (commercial messages) and section 4 (logs and records).

 

The licensee shall not include, as part of its video-on-demand offering, any program containing a commercial message except where:

 

a) the message was already included in a program previously broadcast by a Canadian programming service;

 

b) the program's inclusion as part of the video-on-demand offering is in accordance with the terms of a written agreement entered into with the operator of the Canadian programming service that broadcast the program; and

 

c) the program is offered to subscribers on an on-demand basis at no charge.

  Secretary General
  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: http://www.crtc.gc.ca.

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