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Ottawa, 7 August 2013

By E-mail: dneal@ntv.ca

Douglas W. Neal
Senior Vice President
Newfoundland Broadcasting Company
446 Logy Bay Road
P. O. Box 2020
St. John’s, NL A1C 5S2

Dear Mr. Neal:

Re: Application 2013-1118-3

This is in reference to your application to the CRTC to recognize CJON-DT St. John’s (NL) as a small-market, independently owned television station eligible for support from the Small Market Local Production Fund.

Section 22 of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Rules of Practice and Procedure provides that an applicant must serve its application on a respondent defined as a person who is “adverse in interest”. The guidelines on the Rules of procedure include a chart of persons generally considered to be respondents (paragraph 61). The list is not exhaustive since parties that can be considered respondents depend on the specific facts of the application.

We note that you have not served your application on any respondents.

In light of the above, you are therefore required to serve the application by no later than 14 August 2013 on:
• Canadian Association of Broadcasters
• Small Market Independent Television Stations Coalition (c/o Mr. Rick Arnish, President, Jim Pattison Broadcast Group LP).
• Jim Pattison Industries Ltd.
o CHAT-TV, Medicine Hat
o CFJC-TV, Kamloops
o CKPG-TV, Prince George
• Shaw Cablesystems
o CJBN-TV, Kenora
• RNC Média inc.
o CKRN-TV, CFEM-TV, Rouyn-Noranda
o CFVS-TV, Val d'Or
• Télé Inter-Rives ltée
o CIMT-TV, CFTF-TV, CKRT-TV, Rivière-du-Loup
o CHAU-TV, Carleton
• Astral Media Inc.
o CFTK, Terrace-Kitimat
o CJDC, Dawson Creek
• Corus Entertainment
o CHEX, Peterborough
o CKWS, Kingston
• Thunder Bay Electronics Limited
o CKPR-TV, CHFD-TV, Thunder Bay
• NewCap Radio Inc.
o CKSA-TV & CITL-TV, Lloydminster
• Miracle Channel Association
o CJIL-TV, Lethbridge

Note that a document is not served until it is received by the intended recipient. Therefore, if you are serving a person by mail, you must send it in time for it to be delivered on or before 14 August 2013.

Furthermore, as per section 8 of the application form, Respondents, please revise the chart below with the required information as stated in the Rules of Practice and Procedure.

*Respondent *Mail or E-mail Address *Date Served

The information requested herein should be received by the Commission no later than 14 August 2013, failing which, your application may be returned to be completed and resubmitted with the Commission should you wish to pursue this proposal.

A copy of this letter and all related correspondence will be added to the public record of the proceeding.

The Commission requires that you submit your documents electronically using the secured service My CRTC Account” (Partner Log In or GCKey) and fill in the “Broadcasting and Telecom Cover page” or the “Broadcasting Online Form and Cover Page” located on this web page. Also on this web page you will find information on the submission of applications to the Commission Submitting applications and other documents to the CRTC using My CRTC Account).

Should you need further information concerning your application, please do not hesitate to contact me by telephone at (819) 953-2195, or the Single Point of Contact for Small Undertakings at 1-866-781-1911.

Yours sincerely,

(original signed by)

Aspa Kotsopoulos,
Senior Analyst
Television Policy and Applications

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