ARCHIVED - Broadcasting Procedural Letter addressed to Peggy Tabet (Quebecor Media Inc.)
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Ottawa, 11 January 2016
Peggy Tabet
Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs
Quebecor Media Inc.
612 St-Jacques Street
Montreal, QC
H3C 4M8
By email: Tabet.Peggy@Quebecor.com
Subject: Request for information regarding application CRTC 2015-1264-0 and changes to procedure
Dear Ms. Tabet:
In order to proceed with the review of the above-referenced application, we ask that you please answer the questions below.
Programming
Québec City
1. In the synopsis sent to the Commission, as well as in your response to the complaint by ICTV, you describe the program LeZarts Québec as access programming for the Quebec City service area. However, in the other MAtv service areas, you describe the local LeZarts program as local programming, not access programming. Therefore, please answer the following questions:
a) How does LeZarts Québec qualify as access programming?
b) How is the Quebec City version of LeZarts different from other local versions of LeZarts (LeZarts (Granby), LeZarts Bas-Saint-Laurent, LeZarts Outaouais, etc.)?
c) Please confirm that the person requesting access (Catherine-Eve Gadoury) is not an employee of Vidéotron and is not paid for her work on LeZarts Québec.
2. You state in your synopsis and in your response to the complaint by ICTV that the program À 4 épingles is access programming. However, the person identified as the host and the person requesting access is Geneviève Côté who, according to your website, has been working as a media professional since 2006 with several television stations. Therefore, please answer the following questions.
a) How does Geneviève Côté qualify as a person requesting access?
b) Please confirm that the person requesting access is not an employee of Vidéotron and is not paid for her work on À 4 épingles.
Montreal
3. You state in your synopsis and in your response to the complaint by ICTV that the program Le Cahier is access programming. However, the program seems to be about fashion in general and also appears to have a very high commercial content. Therefore, please answer the following questions:
a) Please confirm that the person requesting access (Camille Dg) is not an employee of Vidéotron and is not paid for her work on Le Cahier, produced for MAtv.
b) How does this program qualify as access programming?
Please note that the information requested must be submitted to the Commission no later than 21 January 2016.
Please note that the dates pertaining to the process related to CRTC 2015-1264-0 are amended as follows:
- The deadline for parties to file interventions has been extended to 1 February 2016;
- The respondent will have until 11 February 2016 to file a reply to the interventions;
- The complainant will have until 21 February 2016 to file a final reply.
This letter and your response, as well as all documents filed in support, will be included as part of your response to ICTV's complaint and should therefore be made available for examination.
We also ask that in your answers you reiterate the question asked.
The Commission requires that you submit these documents electronically through the secure service My CRTC Account using the Broadcasting and Telecom Cover Page (GCKey or Partner Log In). On the Forms and My CRTC Account web page you will also find instructions on submitting documents to the Commission by clicking submitting applications and other documents to the CRTC using My CRTC Account.
Should you need further information concerning this request for information, please contact me by telephone at 819-997-4641, by fax at 819-994-0218 or by e-mail at jean-francois.lecompte@crtc.gc.ca.
Yours sincerely,
Jean-François Lecompte
Television Analyst
Television Policy and Applications
819-997-4641
c.c Laith Marouf - ICTV
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