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Route reference: 2011-55

Ottawa, 16 August 2011

2256247 Ontario Limited
Across Canada

Application 2010-1777-3, received 2 December 2010
Public hearing in the National Capital Region
5 April 2011

Live Music Channel – Specialty Category B service

The Commission approves an application for a broadcasting licence to operate a new specialty Category B service.

The application

1.      2256247 Ontario Limited (2256247 Ontario) filed an application for a broadcasting licence to operate Live Music Channel, a national, English-language Category 2[1] specialty programming undertaking that would be dedicated predominantly to live music concerts, including live-to-air and live-to-tape concerts and concert-related programming. Programming would include complementary programs related to concerts and performers, including videos, events coverage documentaries, films, interviews, news and commentaries. The Commission did not receive any interventions in connection with this application.

2.      2256247 Ontario is wholly owned by Toronto Maple Leafs Network Ltd., a corporation controlled by its board of directors.

3.      The applicant proposed to draw programming for the proposed service from the following program categories set out in Item 6 of Schedule I to the Specialty Services Regulations, 1990, as amended from time to time: 1, 2(a), 2(b), 3, 5(b), 7(a), 7(c), 7(d), 7(g), 8(a), 8(b), 8(c), 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14. [2]

4.      To ensure that the proposed service would not be directly competitive with existing Category A services, the applicant indicated that it would accept the following conditions of licence:

• No more than 10% of all of its programming broadcast during the broadcast week from program categories 7(a), 7(c) and 7(d) combined; and

• No more than 10% of all of its programming broadcast during the broadcast week be drawn from program categories 8(b) and 8(c) combined.

Commission’s determination

5.      The Commission is satisfied that the application complies with all applicable policies, terms and conditions, including those set out in Public Notice 2000-6, Broadcasting Public Notice 2008-100, and Broadcasting Regulatory Policies 2010-786 and 2010-786-1. Accordingly, the Commission approves the application by 2256247 Ontario Limited for a broadcasting licence to operate the national, English-language specialty Category B service Live Music Channel. The terms and conditions of licence are set out in the appendix to this decision.

Reminder

6.      The Commission reminds the applicant that distribution of this service is subject to the requirements set out in the Broadcasting Distribution Regulations.

7.      The Commission also reminds the applicant that all programming broadcast must remain consistent with the narrative description of the service that it provided to the Commission with its application and with the nature of service conditions of licence set out in the appendix to this decision.

Secretary General

Related documents

• Standard conditions of licence, expectations and encouragements for Category B pay and specialty services – Corrected Appendices 1 and 2, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2010-786-1, 18 July 2011

• Amendments to certain Regulations made under the Broadcasting Act to add a new program category “Reality television”, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2011-401, 30 June 2011

• Standard conditions of licence, expectations and encouragements for Category B pay and specialty services, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2010-786, 25 October 2010

• Regulatory frameworks for broadcasting distribution undertakings and discretionary programming services – Regulatory policy, Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2008-100, 30 October 2008

• Licensing framework policy for new digital pay and specialty services, Public Notice CRTC 2000-6, 13 January 2000

*This decision is to be appended to the licence.

Footnotes

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[1] As set out in Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2008-100, as of 31 August 2011, Category 2 services will be renamed Category B services.

[2] In Broadcasting Regulatory Policy 2011-401, the Commission formally announced that it had amended program category 11 to add a new category 11(b) Reality television. Consistent with this change, the Commission has added an authorization to broadcast programming from both 11(a) General entertainment and human interest and the new 11(b) program category.