Broadcasting Procedural Letter addressed to Astrid Zimmer (Blue Ant Television General Partnership)

Ottawa, 27 May 2019

BY EMAIL :astrid.zimmer@blueantmedia.ca

Our reference: 2019-0242-9

Astrid Zimmer
Senior Legal Counsel
Blue Ant Television General Partnership

Re :        Part 1 application from Blue Ant Media Inc. ^Footnote1 to reduce its condition of licence relating programs of national interest (PNI) from 13.5% to 5%.

Ms. Zimmer,

On 23 May 2019, Blue Ant filed a letter in the above noted application requesting an extension of time of 7 days to provide responses to the questions sent to the licensee on 9 May 2019. The current deadline for this response is 27 May 2019.  Blue Ant argued that such an extension is necessary because its programming and financial teams attended the a program purchasing event in Los Angeles from May 12-22 and because they are also involved in a budgeting process in preparation for the 2019/20 broadcast year.

In light of the above, a 7 day extension to Blue Ant to provide replies to the questions sent on 9 May 2018 is granted. The deadline is therefore amended to 3 June, 2019. The requested extension will also result in an extension of the deadlines for intervenors to consult and comment on the additional information and for Blue Ant to provide a reply to those interventions. The timelines will therefore be amended as follows:

Should you need further information concerning this request for information, please do not hesitate to contact me by e-mail manon.auger@crtc.gc.ca or by telephone at 819-639-3481.

Yours truly,

Original signed by

Manon Auger
Senior Analyst
English and Third-language Television

Date modified:

2019-05-27