What's New - March
20, 2000
The CRTC has implemented a one-numbering system for
its broadcasting and telecommunications decisions and notices.
All CRTC decisions and notices will now be numbered in sequence.
We hope that this will make it easier for you to access our documents.
INFORMATION:
CRTC
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DECISIONS:
2000-76
Câblevision du Nord de Québec inc., Rouyn-Noranda,
Quebec. DENIED, by majority vote - Application for relief from
the requirements of section 29 of the Broadcasting Distribution
Regulations.
2000-77
Regina Cablevision Co-operative, Regina, Saskatchewan.
APPROVED, by majority vote - Application for relief from the requirements
of section 29 of the Broadcasting Distribution Regulations.
2000-78
Cable VDN Inc., Montréal, Quebec. APPROVED -
Distribution of CITY-TV Toronto as part of a discretionary tier
of the cable distribution undertaking serving Montréal.
2000-79
OK Radio Group Ltd., Sooke, British Columbia.
APPROVED - Addition of a transmitter at Sooke.
2000-80
Crossroads Television System, Hamilton, Burlington,
St. Catharines and Toronto, Ontario. DENIED - Request to amend
CITS-TV's condition of licence that would allow it to extend to
midnight the period when it must broadcast 12 of its 20 hours
of balance programming each week.
NOTICE:
2000-43
The Sports Network (TSN), Across Canada. To amend
the broadcasting licence for the national English-language specialty
programming undertaking. The licence held by TSN for the national
English-language specialty programming undertaking is currently
subject to conditions of licence related to industry codes on
gender portrayal and the depiction of violence. This application
requests that the current conditions be replaced by "suspensive"
conditions on the same matters, meaning that the application of
the conditions would be suspended, so long as TSN remains a member
in good standing of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.
The requested change requires an amendment to TSN's licence to
replace conditions of licence #7 and #9. Deadline for intervention: 25 April
2000.
ORDER:
2000-208
Commission denies MetroNet Communications Group's
request to modify the imputation test. Reference: 8622-M15-05/99. The Commission denies AT&T Canada's
(formerly MetroNet Communications Group Inc.'s) application, which
sought changes to the pricing test applied to the local services
provided by the telephone companies to prevent anti-competitive
pricing. Under AT&T Canada's proposal, new rates for local
services in urban areas would have to exceed a price floor established
using the same pricing rules that currently apply to local service
rates in rural areas. The Commission concludes that AT&T Canada's
application seeks to review and vary Telecom Decision CRTC 97-8, but it has not seen sufficient evidence
to amend that decision. |
