BROADCASTING ACT
Direction to the CRTC (Reservation of Cable Channels) (C.R.C., c. 378)
DIRECTION ISSUED TO THE CANADIAN RADIO-TELEVISION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION RESPECTING THE RESERVATION OF CABLE CHANNELS
[Short Title]
1. This Order may be cited as Direction to the CRTC (Reservation of Cable
Channels).
[Directions]
2. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is hereby
directed that on or after March 19, 1970, a licence to operate a broadcasting
receiving undertaking may not be issued or renewed in respect of any such
undertaking situated in a province where the provincial authority of the province
has given notice in writing to the Commission that it desires that cable
transmission facilities of that undertaking be reserved for the use of the
provincial authority for the purpose of broadcasting, at times stipulated in the
notice, the types of programming defined in the appendix, and has satisfied the
Commission that it has the present intention of using such facilities within a
reasonable period of time, unless the Commission stipulates that at least one
channel of the undertaking be reserved for the use of the provincial authority
for that purpose.
3. In this Direction, "provincial authority" means a provincial authority as
defined in the appendix.
APPENDIX
Definition of the Reservation of Educational Broadcasting Time and Facilities
1. Where, within its jurisdiction, the Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission, on the direction of the Governor in Council,
stipulates that at least one channel of a cable transmission facility be set
aside for the use of a provincial authority for educational broadcasting or where
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation acts as agent of Her Majesty in right of
Canada in providing a transmission facility for the use of a provincial authority
for educational broadcasting, the time reserved on such channel or transmission
facility for the provincial authority shall be used for broadcasting the
following types of programming:
(a) programming designed to be presented in such a context as to provide a
continuity of learning opportunity aimed at the acquisition or improvement of
knowledge or the enlargement of understanding of members of the audience to
whom such programming is directed and under circumstances such that the
acquisition or improvement of such knowledge or the enlargement of such
understanding is subject to supervision or assessment by the provincial
authority by any appropriate means; and
(b) programming providing information on the available courses of
instruction or involving the broadcasting of special education events within
the educational system.
2. "Provincial authority", in relation to any province, means such person,
body or authority as may be designated by the lieutenant governor in council of
that province as the provincial authority for that province for the purposes of
this definition.
3. The intention of this Appendix is to ensure that such programming, taken as
a whole, shall be designed to furnish educational opportunities and shall be
distinctly different from general broadcasting available on the public or private
channels.
RELATED PROVISIONS
1989, c. 17, ss. 15, 16:
Other references to Radio Act
"15. Wherever the expression "Radio Act" occurs in any Act of Parliament or in
any document, instrument, regulation, proclamation or order in council, there
shall, in every case, unless the context otherwise requires, be substituted the
expression "Radiocommunication Act"."
[Radio licences, etc.]
"16. Radio licences, technical construction and operating certificates and
radio operator certificates that were in force under the Radio Act immediately
before this Act comes into force continue in force thereafter as if they had been
issued in accordance with the Radio Act as amended by this Act."
Date modified: 2005-05-05 |
