Simplified Registration and Attestation

Purpose of this attestation form

The Statutory Orders and Regulations SOR/2023-203, the Online Undertakings Registration Regulations (“Registration Regulations”) require all operators^Footnote1, that is, persons carrying on an online undertaking in whole or in part, in Canada to register their online undertaking(s) with the CRTC. Exemption Order CRTC 2023-330 (Exemption order for classes of online undertakings in respect of the Online Undertakings Registration Regulations) sets out four Classes of online undertakings that are exempt from the Registration Regulations.

Accordingly, operators of online undertakings that alone or, as part of a broadcasting ownership group,^Footnote2 after deducting any excluded revenue^Footnote3, have annual Canadian gross revenues^Footnote4 from broadcasting activities of $10 million or more, must register their online undertakings with the CRTC, regardless of how much revenue each individual online undertaking earns.

Furthermore, in Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2022-47 Annual Digital Media Survey, the Commission determined that a new digital media survey needed to be issued to Canadian and non-Canadian digital media broadcasting undertakings (DMBU). As a DMBU, you may have completed in 2022 the Digital Media Survey registration form 157. In order to simplify the registration process for operators of online undertakings, you may not be required to complete the registration form 158.

If you have previously completed registration form 157 as part of the Annual Digital Media Survey in 2022, and the information submitted then remains the same for the operator and all the online undertakings, you may complete the following questions and attestation in lieu of completing registration form 158.

To clarify other potential scenarios, if:

• Information has changed for the operator, but not for the online undertakings.
  • Complete Form 158 for the operator and the simplified registration and attestation for the online undertakings.
• Information has changed for one undertaking.
  • Complete Form 158 for that online undertaking and the simplified registration and attestation for the remaining undertakings.
• The operator did not complete form 157 as part of the Annual Digital Media Survey in 2022.
  • Complete form 158 and its supporting annex, if the operator operates more than one online undertaking, an appendix for each other online undertaking.

Simplified Registration and Attestation

All information with an * is required. Information without an * is optional.

A. Information about the operator

1. * Legal name of the entity that carries on the online undertaking(s) (the operator):
2. * Location of the head office of the operator
3. Contact information for the operator:
   1. * Mailing Address:
   2. * City/Town:
   3. * Province/Territory/State:
   4. * Country:
   5. * Postal code (A1A 1A1) or Zip code:
   6. * Telephone (9-999-999-9999)^Footnote5:        Ext:
   7. * Email (yourname@yourdomain.com):

If the operator is part of a broadcasting ownership group, as defined in Exemption Order CRTC 2023-330, identify the broadcasting ownership group of the operator:

B. Information about online undertakings

1. * Name of the online undertakings (list all undertakings for which no information has changed):
   For each online undertaking identified in question 1:
2. * Confirm the predominant language(s) of content:
   • English (  )
   • French (  )
   • Indigenous (  )
   • Other – please specify:
3. * Select all the languages in which the online undertaking offers programming services:
   • English (  )
   • French (  )
   • Indigenous (  )
   • Other – please specify (multiple entries are possible):

I, ____________ (the operator or designated representative), attest that since the completion of form 157 as part of the Annual Digital Media Survey in 2022 no OTHER information that was submitted at the time for the above noted operator or online undertakings has changed, and I agree that the information may be used by the Commission to confirm compliance by __________________ (the operator) with the requirements of the Online Undertakings Registration Regulations in lieu of a completed registration form 158.

Documents to be appended to the simplified registration and naming conventions of electronic documents

Documents should be submitted in an accessible format (Broadcasting and Telecom Information Bulletin CRTC 2015-242, 8 June 2015).

The following documents may be submitted as separate electronic documents using the naming convention specified below. The document number (Doc#) indicates the ascending order in which the documents should appear on the public file.

Important note: Once you have completed this Simplified Registration and Attestation Form submit it to the Commission with a Broadcasting Cover Page.

Date modified:

2023-10-10