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Route reference: Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2009-84 |
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| Ottawa, 9 October 2009 | |
Amendments to the requirements set out in the lists of eligible satellite services |
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| In this regulatory policy, the Commission amends certain requirements set out in the lists of eligible satellite services, as proposed in Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2009-84. These amendments include, among other things, the removal of the requirement that licensed broadcasting distribution undertakings receive certain services from licensed satellite relay distribution undertakings. | |
Introduction |
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In Broadcasting Public Notice 2008-100, the Commission announced its intention to amend its current policies relating to satellite relay distribution undertakings (SRDUs) and terrestrial relay distribution undertakings (TRDUs) in order to encourage greater competition in the signal transport sector. The Commission notes that SRDUs and TRDUs generally function as wholesalers by transporting broadcasting services and making those services available to broadcasting distribution undertakings (BDUs), which then offer them to subscribers. At present, SRDUs are licensed, while TRDUs operate under an exemption order. |
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Currently, licensed BDUs are generally prohibited from distributing certain services to their subscribers unless they receive those services from a licensed SRDU. The services in question include the four U.S. commercial networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX) and the non-commercial PBS network (collectively, the U.S. 4+1 signals), U.S. super stations and distant Canadian signals. The requirement to receive these services from a licensed SRDU is currently found in the lists of eligible satellite services (the lists). |
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The Commission has granted exceptions to the restriction for a number of BDUs that wished to use their own facilities to receive and transport these signals. |
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In Broadcasting Public Notice 2008-100, the Commission noted that parties that commented on this rule advocated its removal. Having considered the views expressed, the Commission stated in Broadcasting Public Notice 2008-100 that it would remove the requirement that licensed BDUs receive certain services from a licensed SRDU. Accordingly, in Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2009-84, the Commission called for comments on amendments to the lists to remove that requirement.1 |
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In that notice of consultation, the Commission also proposed the following amendments to the lists: |
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| The Commission set out the specific changes proposed in the form of proposed revised lists appended to Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2009-84. | |
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The Commission received several comments in support of the proposed amendments to the lists as well as a comment in opposition from Shaw Broadcast Services (SBS). The Commission considers that a remaining intervention from an individual fell outside the scope of this proceeding. The interventions are available on the Commission’s website at www.crtc.gc.ca under "Public Proceedings." |
Issues raised by parties |
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SBS argued that approval of the proposal presented by the Commission in Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2009-84, as well as of the proposal presented in Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2009-83 relating to a revised TRDU exemption order, would create competitive inequities between two classes of undertakings (i.e., TRDUs and SRDUs) that perform the same function and are differentiated only by technology. It proposed that SRDUs be granted amendments to their licences so as to provide them with the same flexibility afforded TRDUs. |
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The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance Inc. (CCSA) and Cable Cable Inc. (CCI) both supported the proposed amendments to the lists but submitted that the lists (and in particular any limitations set out therein) should only apply to licensed BDUs, while exempt systems should be allowed to carry any service authorized for distribution in Canada. CCI further submitted that, since the new requirements set out in the lists refer only to licensees that receive signals and since the current exemption orders for small systems still refer to services received by satellite, licensed systems appear to gain more flexibility from these amendments than do exempt systems. Finally, CCI submitted that some U.S. specialty services have not allowed cable companies to pass on their signals to third parties, which it considered to be inefficient as well as costly for smaller systems that would prefer to receive non-Canadian services from larger BDUs. On this point, CCI suggested that the Commission require non-Canadian services to permit signal reception by any means. |
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Quebecor Media inc. (QMI) generally supported the proposed revisions to the requirements set out in the lists but submitted that BDUs should be allowed to distribute more U.S. 4+1 signals, even if these signals are not received over the air. It also submitted that the Commission should not impose program deletion/substitution requirements on Class 3 undertakings. |
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The Commission did not receive any interventions opposing its proposal to delete requirements relating to the need for BDUs to enter into contractual arrangements with certain specified services on the lists. |
Commission’s analysis and determinations |
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As indicated in a letter from Commission staff to SBS dated 30 March 2009, the amendments sought by SBS were contingent upon the outcome of the proceedings initiated by Broadcasting Notices of Consultation 2009-83 and 2009-84. In Broadcasting Public Notice 2008-100, the Commission stated that it would be prepared, at the next renewals of the SRDU licences,2 to review evidence and consider whether exemption would constitute an appropriate course of action. At that time, the Commission may also consider options other than exemption, such as modifications to conditions of licence. |
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In regard to CCI’s concern that some U.S. specialty services were not allowing cable companies to pass on their signals to third parties, and in regard to its request that non-Canadian services be required to permit reception of their signals by any means, the Commission is not persuaded that it would be appropriate for it to require a programming service, be it Canadian or non-Canadian, to deal with any SRDU or TRDU that might wish to distribute its signals to BDUs. |
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In regard to CCI’s concern relating to the degree of flexibility that the proposed revisions would provide to licensed systems as compared to exempt systems, the Commission notes that, in Broadcasting Order 2009-544, it issued its Exemption order for terrestrial broadcasting undertakings serving fewer than 20,000 subscribers. Paragraph 13(a) of the terms and conditions of that exemption order, set out in the appendix to that broadcasting order, specifies that "no service received over-the-air or by any other means is distributed over the undertaking, other than a service that the Commission, by regulation or otherwise, has authorized" (emphasis added). As noted in Broadcasting Order 2009-544, paragraph 13(a) provides exempt BDUs with a general authorization to distribute any service authorized for distribution anywhere in Canada. This authorization is not limited by the conditions attached to the distribution of programming services by licensed systems unless such conditions are explicitly incorporated into the exemption order. The effect of this is that exempt BDUs will have all the flexibility afforded to licensed systems by virtue of the amendments to the lists. |
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The Commission notes that certain comments by QMI pertain to matters that the Commission did not propose to change and therefore are not the subject of the proposals set out in Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2009-84. In particular, the amendments relating to the number of U.S. 4+1 signals and to the deletion of duplicate programming were made solely in order to eliminate the requirement that certain signals be received by SRDUs, and do not modify the essence of these respective provisions. |
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In light of the above, the Commission amends the requirements set out in the lists of eligible satellite services so as to implement the proposed amendments discussed above, as they are set out in Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2009-84. The revised lists incorporating the above-noted amendments are set out in the appendix to this regulatory policy. The appended revised lists also include name changes to certain services not indicated in the appendix to Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2009-84 (i.e., ACCESS, Knowledge and "A" Atlantic instead of Learning and Skills Television of Alberta, Open Learning Agency (Knowledge Network) and Atlantic Satellite Network (ASN), respectively), as well as the names of services added to the lists following the issuance of that notice of consultation (i.e., Channel [V] Taiwan, CNN International, Fox Business Network, Star Chinese Channel, Star Chinese Movies 2, Star India Gold and Star India Plus). The revised lists are also available on the Commission’s website at www.crtc.gc.ca under "Broadcasting Sector" and may be obtained in hard copy on request. |
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| 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: http://www.crtc.gc.ca. |
Appendix to Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2009-639 |
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Revised lists of eligible satellite services incorporating amended requirements as set out in Broadcasting Regulatory Policy 2009-639 |
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Appendix A |
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List of Part 2 Eligible Satellite Services |
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| Section A | ||
| ACCESS | ||
| Saskatchewan Communications Network (SCN) | ||
| Télé-Québec (STQ) | ||
| The Ontario Educational Communications Authority (TVO) | ||
| The Ontario French-Language Educational Communications Authority (TFO) | ||
| Knowledge | ||
| "A" Atlantic | ||
| CFTU-TV Montréal | IND | |
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CBC English-language Television Service CBC French-language Television Service |
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WHDH-TV Boston/WGRZ-TV Buffalo/WPTZ Burlington/ WDIV Detroit/WICU-TV Erie/KARE Minneapolis/ KHQ-TV Spokane/KING-TV Seattle |
NBC | |
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WGBH-TV Boston/WNED-TV Buffalo/WETK Burlington/ WTVS Detroit/WQLN Erie/KSPS-TV Spokane/KCTS-TV Seattle |
PBS | |
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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 | |
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WCVB-TV Boston/WKBW-TV Buffalo/WVNY Burlington/ WXYZ-TV Detroit/WJET-TV Erie/KSTP-TV Minneapolis/ KXLY-TV Spokane/KOMO-TV Seattle |
ABC | |
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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 | ||
| WPCH-TV Atlanta | ||
| WPIX New York City | ||
| WSBK-TV Boston | ||
| WUAB-TV (IND) Cleveland | ||
| WWOR-TV New York City | ||
| American Movie Classics | ||
| Comedy Central | ||
| Game Show Network | ||
| Lifetime Television | ||
| Playboy TV*** | ||
| Turner Classic Movies | ||
| ** | 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: | ||
| - Licensees receiving any U.S. PBS signal(s) over the air at the local head end may distribute one additional PBS signal pursuant to this List. All other licensees may distribute a maximum of two PBS services pursuant to this List. | ||
| - Licensees receiving U.S. commercial network signals over the air at the local head end may not distribute additional U.S. commercial network signals pursuant to this List. Other licensees may not distribute the signal of more than one affiliate of the same commercial U.S. network pursuant to this List. | ||
| ♦ | Denotes a service in a language other than English or French added before 16 December 2004. | |
| Section C | ||
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List of Part 2 Eligible Satellite Services for Digital Distribution Only |
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| Aaj Tak Channel | ||
| Al Arabiya News Channel | ||
| Al Jazeera*♦ | ||
| Ariana Television | ||
| ART Movies♦ | ||
| ATV Home Channel (America) | ||
| Azteca 13 International | ||
| Baby TV | ||
| BabyFirstTV | ||
| Beijing TV | ||
| Big Ten Network | ||
| Bloomberg Television | ||
| Bridges TV | ||
| BVN-TV♦ | ||
| Canal 52 MX | ||
| Canal de las Estrellas Latinoamérica | ||
| Canal SUR♦ | ||
| Caracol Television International | ||
| CaribVision | ||
| CBS College Sports Network | ||
| CCTV-4 | ||
| CCTV Entertainment Channel | ||
| Channel-i | ||
| Channel One Russia Worldwide TV | ||
| Channel [V] Taiwan | ||
| China Yellow River Television Station | ||
| CineLatino♦ | ||
| CNN International | ||
| Cubavision Internacional | ||
| Dandana TV | ||
| De Pelicula Channel | ||
| Dragon TV | ||
| El Gourmet.com | ||
| ET-Global Channel | ||
| Eternal Word Television Network | ||
| ETV Bangla | ||
| Eurochannel | ||
| EuroNews | ||
| Eurosportnews | ||
| Fox Business Network | ||
| Fox News | ||
| France 24 (English) | ||
| France 24 (French) | ||
| Future Television Channel | ||
| GEO TV | ||
| German TV♦ | ||
| GMA Pinoy TV | ||
| Grandes Documentales de TVE♦ | ||
| HDNet | ||
| Headlines Today Channel | ||
| HTV | ||
| Horizon Channel | ||
| Hunan Satellite TV | ||
| Indus Music | ||
| Indus Vision | ||
| ITVN | ||
| Jiangsu International TV Channel | ||
| KTO | ||
| LBC America | ||
| LUXE.TV | ||
| MBC Channel (America) | ||
| Mezzo | ||
| Military Channel | ||
| MSNBC | ||
| Muslim Television Ahmadiyya♦ | ||
| NASA Television | ||
| NDTV GOOD TIMES | ||
| Network TEN (Australia) | ||
| NEW SAT | ||
| New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) | ||
| NFL Network | ||
| NTV Bangla | ||
| Oxygen Network | ||
| Paris-Première | ||
| Phoenix InfoNews Channel | ||
| Phoenix North American Chinese Channel (PNACC) | ||
| Planète | ||
| Planète Thalassa | ||
| Polsat 2 International | ||
| Premiere Futebole Clube (PFC) | ||
| ProSiebenSat.1 Welt | ||
| PTV-Prime USA | ||
| Radio Television Portugal International (RTPi) | ||
| RAI International 2 | ||
| Ritmoson Latino Channel | ||
| Romanian Television International (RTVI)♦ | ||
| RTR-Planeta TV | ||
| RTV | ||
| RTV Palma♦ | ||
| Sahara One | ||
| The Satellite Channel of Southern Television Guandong | ||
| Sony Entertainment Television Asia (SET Asia) | ||
| Sony Max | ||
| Southeast TV Station | ||
| Star Chinese Channel | ||
| Star Chinese Movies 2 | ||
| Star India Gold | ||
| Star India News Channel | ||
| Star India One Channel | ||
| Star India Plus | ||
| Sun TV | ||
| Supercanal Caribe | ||
| TELEFE Internacional | ||
| TL Novelas Channel | ||
| TRACE TV | ||
| TV Asia | ||
| 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♦ | ||
| Vijay Channel | ||
| * | 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: | ||
| - 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 |
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List of Part 3 Eligible Satellite Services |
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| ACCESS | ||
| Saskatchewan Communications Network (SCN) | ||
| Télé-Québec (STQ) | ||
| The Ontario Educational Communications Authority (TVO) | ||
| The Ontario French-Language Educational Communications Authority (TFO) | ||
| Knowledge | ||
| "A" Atlantic | ||
| Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) | ||
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CBC English-language Television Service CBC French-language Television Service |
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| The programming service of any licensed television programming undertaking | ||
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WHDH-TV Boston/WGRZ-TV Buffalo/WPTZ Burlington/ WDIV Detroit/WICU-TV Erie/KARE Minneapolis/ KHQ-TV Spokane/KING-TV Seattle |
NBC | |
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WGBH-TV Boston/WNED-TV Buffalo/WETK Burlington/WTVS Detroit/ WQLN Erie/KSPS-TV Spokane/KCTS-TV Seattle |
PBS | |
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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 | ||
| WPCH-TV Atlanta | ||
| WPIX New York City | ||
| WSBK-TV Boston | ||
| 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) | ||
| ** | 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 the 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 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 offered pursuant to this List or substitute the local service(s) when the programming is identical. | ||
| - Licensees receiving any U.S. PBS signal(s) over the air at the local head end may distribute one additional PBS signal pursuant to this List. All other licensees may distribute a maximum of two PBS services pursuant to this List. | ||
| - Licensees receiving U.S. commercial network signals over the air at the local head end may not distribute additional U.S. commercial network signals pursuant to this List. Other licensees may not distribute the signal of more than one affiliate of the same commercial U.S. network pursuant to this List. | ||
| ♦ | Denotes a service in a language other than English or French added before 16 December 2004. | |
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List of Part 3 Eligible Satellite Services for Digital Distribution Only |
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| Aaj Tak Channel | ||
| Al Arabiya News Channel | ||
| Al Jazeera*♦ | ||
| Ariana Television | ||
| ART Movies♦ | ||
| ATV Home Channel (America) | ||
| Azteca 13 International | ||
| Baby TV | ||
| BabyFirstTV | ||
| Beijing TV | ||
| Big Ten Network | ||
| Bloomberg Television | ||
| Bridges TV | ||
| BVN-TV♦ | ||
| Canal 52 MX | ||
| Canal de las Estrellas Latinoamérica | ||
| Canal SUR♦ | ||
| Caracol Television International | ||
| CaribVision | ||
| CBS College Sports Network | ||
| CCTV-4 | ||
| CCTV Entertainment Channel | ||
| Channel-i | ||
| Channel One Russia Worldwide TV | ||
| Channel [V] Taiwan | ||
| China Yellow River Television Station | ||
| CineLatino♦ | ||
| CNN International | ||
| Cubavision Internacional | ||
| Dandana TV | ||
| De Pelicula Channel | ||
| Dragon TV | ||
| El Gourmet.com | ||
| ET-Global Channel | ||
| Eternal Word Television Network | ||
| ETV Bangla | ||
| Eurochannel | ||
| EuroNews | ||
| Eurosportnews | ||
| Fox Business Network | ||
| Fox News | ||
| France 24 (English) | ||
| France 24 (French) | ||
| Future Television Channel | ||
| GEO TV | ||
| German TV♦ | ||
| GMA Pinoy TV | ||
| Grandes Documentales de TVE♦ | ||
| HDNet | ||
| Headlines Today Channel | ||
| Horizon Channel | ||
| HTV | ||
| Hunan Satellite TV | ||
| Indus Music | ||
| Indus Vision | ||
| ITVN | ||
| Jiangsu International TV Channel | ||
| KTO | ||
| LBC America | ||
| LUXE.TV | ||
| MBC Channel (America) | ||
| Mezzo | ||
| Military Channel | ||
| MSNBC | ||
| Muslim Television Ahmadiyya♦ | ||
| NASA Television | ||
| NDTV GOOD TIMES | ||
| Network TEN (Australia) | ||
| NEW SAT | ||
| New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) | ||
| NFL Network | ||
| NTV Bangla | ||
| Oxygen Network | ||
| Paris-Première | ||
| Phoenix InfoNews Channel | ||
| Phoenix North American Chinese Channel (PNACC) | ||
| Planète | ||
| Planète Thalassa | ||
| Polsat 2 International | ||
| Premiere Futebole Clube (PFC) | ||
| ProSiebenSat.1 Welt | ||
| PTV-Prime USA | ||
| Radio Television Portugal International (RTPi) | ||
| RAI International 2 | ||
| Ritmoson Latino Channel | ||
| Romanian Television International (RTVI)♦ | ||
| RTR-Planeta TV | ||
| RTV | ||
| RTV Palma♦ | ||
| Sahara One | ||
| The Satellite Channel of Southern Television Guandong | ||
| Sony Entertainment Television Asia (SET Asia) | ||
| Sony Max | ||
| Southeast TV Station | ||
| Star Chinese Channel | ||
| Star Chinese Movies 2 | ||
| Star India Gold | ||
| Star India News Channel | ||
| Star India One Channel | ||
| Star India Plus | ||
| Sun TV | ||
| Supercanal Caribe | ||
| TELEFE Internacional | ||
| TL Novelas Channel | ||
| TRACE TV | ||
| TV Asia | ||
| 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♦ | ||
| Vijay Channel | ||
| * | 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: | ||
| - 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 |
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List of DTH Eligible Satellite Services |
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| 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* | ||
| WPCH-TV Atlanta* | ||
| WPIX New York City* | ||
| WSBK-TV Boston* | ||
| 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. | |
| ♦ | Denotes a service in a language other than English or French added before 16 December 2004. | |
| Section C | ||
| Aaj Tak Channel | ||
| Al Arabiya News Channel | ||
| Al Jazeera*♦ | ||
| Ariana Television | ||
| ART Movies♦ | ||
| ATV Home Channel (America) | ||
| Azteca 13 International | ||
| Baby TV | ||
| BabyFirstTV | ||
| Beijing TV | ||
| Big Ten Network | ||
| Bloomberg Television | ||
| Bridges TV | ||
| BVN-TV♦ | ||
| Canal 52 MX | ||
| Canal de las Estrellas Latinoamérica | ||
| Canal SUR♦ | ||
| Caracol Television International | ||
| CaribVision | ||
| CBS College Sports Network | ||
| CCTV-4 | ||
| CCTV Entertainment Channel | ||
| Channel-i | ||
| Channel One Russia Worldwide TV | ||
| Channel [V] Taiwan | ||
| China Yellow River Television Station | ||
| CineLatino♦ | ||
| CNN International | ||
| Cubavision Internacional | ||
| Dandana TV | ||
| De Pelicula Channel | ||
| Dragon TV | ||
| El Gourmet.com | ||
| ET-Global Channel | ||
| Eternal Word Television Network | ||
| ETV Bangla | ||
| Eurochannel | ||
| EuroNews | ||
| Eurosportnews | ||
| Fox Business Network | ||
| Fox News | ||
| France 24 (English) | ||
| France 24 (French) | ||
| Future Television Channel | ||
| GEO TV | ||
| German TV♦ | ||
| GMA Pinoy TV | ||
| Grandes Documentales de TVE♦ | ||
| HDNet | ||
| Headlines Today Channel | ||
| Horizon Channel | ||
| HTV | ||
| Hunan Satellite TV | ||
| Indus Music | ||
| Indus Vision | ||
| ITVN | ||
| Jiangsu International TV Channel | ||
| KTO | ||
| LBC America | ||
| LUXE.TV | ||
| MBC Channel (America) | ||
| Mezzo | ||
| Military Channel | ||
| MSNBC | ||
| Muslim Television Ahmadiyya♦ | ||
| NASA Television | ||
| NDTV GOOD TIMES | ||
| Network TEN (Australia) | ||
| NEW SAT | ||
| New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) | ||
| NFL Network | ||
| NTV Bangla | ||
| Oxygen Network | ||
| Paris-Première | ||
| Phoenix InfoNews Channel | ||
| Phoenix North American Chinese Channel (PNACC) | ||
| Planète | ||
| Planète Thalassa | ||
| Polsat 2 International | ||
| Premiere Futebole Clube (PFC) | ||
| ProSiebenSat.1 Welt | ||
| PTV-Prime USA | ||
| Radio Television Portugal International (RTPi) | ||
| RAI International 2 | ||
| Ritmoson Latino Channel | ||
| Romanian Television International (RTVI)♦ | ||
| RTR-Planeta TV | ||
| RTV | ||
| RTV Palma♦ | ||
| Sahara One | ||
| The Satellite Channel of Southern Television Guandong | ||
| Sony Entertainment Television Asia (SET Asia) | ||
| Sony Max | ||
| Southeast TV Station | ||
| Star Chinese Channel | ||
| Star Chinese Movies 2 | ||
| Star India Gold | ||
| Star India News Channel | ||
| Star India One Channel | ||
| Star India Plus | ||
| Sun TV | ||
| Supercanal Caribe | ||
| TELEFE Internacional | ||
| TL Novelas Channel | ||
| TRACE TV | ||
| TV Asia | ||
| 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♦ | ||
| Vijay Channel | ||
| * | 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: | ||
| - 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 |
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List of Part 2, Part 3, and DTH Eligible Satellite Services for Digital Distribution |
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| Aaj Tak Channel | ||
| Al Arabiya News Channel | ||
| Al Jazeera*♦ | ||
| Ariana Television | ||
| ART Movies♦ | ||
| ATV Home Channel (America) | ||
| Azteca 13 International | ||
| Baby TV | ||
| BabyFirstTV | ||
| Beijing TV | ||
| Big Ten Network | ||
| Bloomberg Television | ||
| Bridges TV | ||
| BVN-TV♦ | ||
| Canal 52 MX | ||
| Canal de las Estrellas Latinoamérica | ||
| Canal SUR♦ | ||
| Caracol Television International | ||
| CaribVision | ||
| CBS College Sports Network | ||
| CCTV-4 | ||
| CCTV Entertainment Channel | ||
| Channel-i | ||
| Channel One Russia Worldwide TV | ||
| Channel [V] Taiwan | ||
| China Yellow River Television Station | ||
| CineLatino♦ | ||
| CNN International | ||
| Cubavision Internacional | ||
| Dandana TV | ||
| De Pelicula Channel | ||
| Dragon TV | ||
| El Gourmet.com | ||
| ET-Global Channel | ||
| Eternal Word Television Network | ||
| ETV Bangla | ||
| Eurochannel | ||
| EuroNews | ||
| Eurosportnews | ||
| Fox Business Network | ||
| Fox News | ||
| France 24 (English) | ||
| France 24 (French) | ||
| Future Television Channel | ||
| GEO TV | ||
| German TV♦ | ||
| GMA Pinoy TV | ||
| Grandes Documentales de TVE♦ | ||
| HDNet | ||
| Headlines Today Channel | ||
| Horizon Channel | ||
| HTV | ||
| Hunan Satellite TV | ||
| Indus Music | ||
| Indus Vision | ||
| ITVN | ||
| Jiangsu International TV Channel | ||
| KTO | ||
| LBC America | ||
| LUXE.TV | ||
| MBC Channel (America) | ||
| Mezzo | ||
| Military Channel | ||
| MSNBC | ||
| Muslim Television Ahmadiyya♦ | ||
| NASA Television | ||
| NDTV GOOD TIMES | ||
| Network TEN (Australia) | ||
| NEW SAT | ||
| New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) | ||
| NFL Network | ||
| NTV Bangla | ||
| Oxygen Network | ||
| Paris-Première | ||
| Phoenix InfoNews Channel | ||
| Phoenix North American Chinese Channel (PNACC) | ||
| Planète | ||
| Planète Thalassa | ||
| Polsat 2 International | ||
| Premiere Futebole Clube (PFC) | ||
| ProSiebenSat.1 Welt | ||
| PTV-Prime USA | ||
| Radio Television Portugal International (RTPi) | ||
| RAI International 2 | ||
| Ritmoson Latino Channel | ||
| Romanian Television International (RTVI)♦ | ||
| RTR-Planeta TV | ||
| RTV | ||
| RTV Palma♦ | ||
| Sahara One | ||
| The Satellite Channel of Southern Television Guandong | ||
| Sony Entertainment Television Asia (SET Asia) | ||
| Sony Max | ||
| Southeast TV Station | ||
| Star Chinese Channel | ||
| Star Chinese Movies 2 | ||
| Star India Gold | ||
| Star India News Channel | ||
| Star India One Channel | ||
| Star India Plus | ||
| Sun TV | ||
| Supercanal Caribe | ||
| TELEFE Internacional | ||
| TL Novelas Channel | ||
| TRACE TV | ||
| TV Asia | ||
| 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♦ | ||
| Vijay Channel | ||
| * | 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: | ||
| - 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. | |
1 In Broadcasting Public Notice 2008-100, the Commission also stated that it would amend its Exemption order respecting terrestrial relay distribution network undertakings, set out in Public Notice 2000-10, in order to eliminate the requirements that undertakings operating under the order be local or regional and that they be affiliated with the BDUs to which they transport programming services. Accordingly, in Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2009-83, the Commission called for comments on a revised TRDU exemption order. Broadcasting Order 2009-638, also issued today, sets out the Commission’s determinations in this regard.
2 SBS’s licence expires on 31 August 2010.
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