Consultation about Broadcasting Fees Regulations

We encouraged you to share your views and comments on how the modernized Broadcasting Act should affect the current fees paid by broadcasters and how they should be extended to online streaming services.

This consultation ran from August 23, 2023 to September 22, 2023.

Who was the focus of this consultation

We were looking to hear from anyone with an interest in fees paid by broadcasters and how they should be extended to online streaming services.

This consultation was most interest to:

• Current broadcasting services, including television, cable, specialty and radio broadcasters
• Online streaming services
• Viewers, listeners, and other interested members of the public

Key topics for discussion

The CRTC recovers the costs of regulating the broadcasting industry through fees paid by broadcasters. This consultation examines those fees and how they should be extended to broadcasters that are online streaming services.

We invited you to provide your comments on:

• the application, objectives, and definitions of the new Fees Regulations;
• the threshold exemption level and upper limit for broadcasting fees;
• the rule against duplicate imposition of the same revenue; and
• the definition of fee revenue, transition, and the annual adjustment amount provision.

See the Notice of Consultation 2023-280 for more details.

What we learned

• Interventions (comments we received online, by mail and by fax)

Related information

• Consultation on exemption orders and basic conditions of service
• Consultation on contributions to the Canadian Broadcasting system
• Consultation on registration regulations and associated exemption order
• Filing submissions for Commission proceedings in accessible formats, Broadcasting and Telecom Information Bulletin CRTC 2015-242, 8 June 2015
• Guidelines on the CRTC Rules of Practice and Procedure, Broadcasting and Telecom Information Bulletin CRTC 2010-959, 23 December 2010
• Changes to certain practices for filing interventions – Expansion of filing practices to include the filing of joint supporting comments for broadcasting policy proceedings, Broadcasting Information Bulletin CRTC 2010-28-1, 10 December 2010

Date modified:

2024-03-21