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Ottawa, 2 November 2015

VIA E-MAIL

Monica L. Auer
Executive Director
Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC)
execdir@frpc.net

Re: Procedural requests regarding “Local Programming Data” posted on the CRTC’s website in relation to Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2015-421

Receipt is acknowledged of your letter dated 29 October 2015Footnote 1 requesting clarification of additional information made available as a part of the Commission’s review of Local and Community Programming, outlined in Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2015-421 (BNC 2015-421), as well as additional data.  In particular, you asked the Commission to:

  1. Confirm that the Appendix A in its 18 September 2015 letter is identical to the Appendix A in its 9 April 2015 letter;
  2. Confirm that the stations listed at the end of the Local Programming Data are the SMITS stations, and that the data shown in Table 11 apply to the same stations in all of the 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 years;
  3. Confirm that Tables 1 through 10 all describe the same stations listed as “Conventional Television Stations” under Local Programming Data, in each of the 2012/13, 2013/2014 and September 2014-February 2015 periods; and
  4. Provide the number of full-time or equivalent staff for the stations grouped under “Conventional television stations”, for each of the broadcast years from 2010 to 2014, and for the period from September 2014 to February 2015.

In response, the following is confirmed:

  1. The Financial data table contained in Appendix A of the Commission’s 18 September 2015 letter is identical to the one contained in its 9 April 2015 letter;
  2. The stations listed at the end of the Local Programming Data are the SMITS stations, and the data shown in Table 11 apply to the same stations in all of the 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 years;
  3. Tables 1 through 10 all describe the same stations listed as “Conventional Television Stations” under Local Programming Data, in each of the 2012/13, 2013/2014 and September 2014-February 2015 periods.
  4. Where appropriate, the Commission will add, on 2 November 2015, the number of full-time or equivalent staff in its tables 1 to 11.      

Sincerely,

Scott Hutton,
Executive Director
Broadcasting

Footnotes

Footnote 1

Received by the Commission on 30 October 2015

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