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Decision CRTC 2001-457-6
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Ottawa, 2 August 2001
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CTV Television Inc.
Sudbury, North Bay, Huntsville, Timmins and Sault Ste. Marie,
Ontario 2000-2242-6, 2000-2244-2, 2000-2245-0,
2000-2246-8,2000-2247-6, 2000-2248-4, 2000-2249-2, 2000-2250-0,
2000-2251-7
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17 April 2001 Public Hearing
National Capital Region |
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Licence renewal for CICI-TV, CKNC-TV, CKNY-TV, CHNB-TV,
CKNY-TV-11, CITO-TV, CFCL-TV, CHBX-TV and CJIC-TV
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The Commission renews the licences for the following
television programming undertakings and their transmitters:
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· CICI-TV Sudbury and its transmitter CICI-TV-1 Elliot Lake;
· CKNC-TV Sudbury;
· CKNY-TV North Bay;
· CHNB-TV North Bay;
· CKNY-TV-11 Huntsville;
· CITO-TV Timmins and its transmitters CITO-TV-1 Kapuskasing,
CITO-TV-2 Kearns, CITO-TV-3 Hearst and CITO-TV-4 Chapleau;
· CFCL-TV Timmins and its transmitters CFCL-TV-1 Kapuskasing,
CFCL-TV-2 Kearns, CFCL-TV-3 Hallebourg, and CFCL-TV-4 Chapleau;
· CHBX-TV Sault Ste. Marie and its transmitter CHBX-TV-1
Wawa; and
· CJIC-TV Sault Ste. Marie.
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The licences for these undertakings will be subject to the terms,
conditions of licence, commitments and expectations set out below,
as well as to those contained in Decision CRTC 2001-457. This group
of stations, known collectively as MCTV, includes twin-stick
operations (co-located CTV and CBC transmitters) at each of Sudbury,
North Bay, Timmins, Kearns, Kapuskasing, and Sault Ste. Marie. The
CBC- affiliated undertakings are CKNC-TV, CHNB-TV, CFCL-TV, CJIC-TV
and their transmitters. |
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Terms
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The licences will be in effect from 1 September 2001 to 31 August
2008.
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The Commission notes that this licensee is subject to the Employment
Equity Act and therefore files reports concerning employment
equity with Human Resources Development Canada.
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Conditions of licence
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The licensee shall operate each of CKNC-TV, CHNB-TV, CFCL-TV,
CJIC-TV and their transmitters as an affiliate of the
English-language television network operated by the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation. |
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With respect to those of its undertakings that broadcast
predominantly CTV network programming, the licensee shall, in each
broadcast year starting with that beginning 1 September 2003,
caption 90% of all programming broadcast during the broadcast day,
including 100% of all category 1 – News programming.
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With respect to CKNY-TV-11 Huntsville, the licensee may broadcast
no more than 6.5% of the commercial availabilities on this station
separately from those broadcast on CKNY-TV North Bay, for each hour
of station-produced programming broadcast exclusively on the
Huntsville station each week. |
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Expectations and commitments
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As noted above, certain of these undertakings operate as
affiliates of the CBC television network. As discussed in Decision
CRTC 2001-457, and in line with the level of captioned programming
currently required of the CBC, the Commission expects the
licensee to provide captioning for at least 90% of all programming
aired on each of CKNC-TV, CHNB-TV, CFCL-TV, CJIC-TV during the
broadcast day, including 100% of all category 1 – News
programming. |
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Until 1 September 2003, the Commission expects the
licensee to, at a minimum, maintain the current level of closed
captioning on CICI-TV, CKNY-TV, CKNY-TV-11, CITO-TV and CHBX-TV.
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The Commission notes the licensee's commitment to provide a
minimum combined total of 15.5 hours per week of local programming
to the communities served by the MCTV stations.
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With respect to CKNY-TV-11 Huntsville, some 14 hours per week of
the local programming will originate with CKNY-TV North Bay or with
other stations in the MCTV group. The licensee, however, made the
further commitment to broadcast approximately one and a half hours
per week of separate programming directed to Huntsville.
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The licensee confirmed as an additional commitment that the MCTV
stations, collectively, will control the allocation of a minimum of
$50,000 in development funds that will be made available to
independent producers in the local market on an annual basis.
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Secretary General
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This decision is to be
appended to each licence. It is available in alternative format upon
request, and may also be examined at the following Internet site: http://www.crtc.gc.ca
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Date Modified: 2001-08-02 |