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Facts
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Highlights
about Canadian Television
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Since 2000,
the CRTC has issued an annual Broadcasting
Policy Monitoring Report. The report presents data as well
as a number of performance indicators used by the CRTC to examine
the broadcasting industry in Canada.
The CRTC uses this information
to measure the success of its broadcasting policies, regulations
and decisions, as well as to identify areas that may require further
review or adjustment.
The report is also intended
to help foster a more open and better-informed public discussion
of broadcasting policy in Canada.
Highlights
about Canadian Television
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The diversity of English, French and
third-language Canadian and non-Canadian television available to
Canadians is considerable. Canadians have access to 467
English-language television services, 106 French-language
services, and 86 third-language services, for a total of 679
television services.
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In 2004-2005, the
average weekly viewing hours per capita were 25.1 hours while in
2003-2004, the average was 24.7 hours.
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Overall viewing to Canadian television
services continues to increase throughout Canada.
Canadian television services garnered 79.9% of total television
audience in 2005, compared with 78.4% in 2004 and 76% in 2003.
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In all provinces excluding Quebec, Canadian
English language private conventional services achieved a 29.4%
share of total viewing in 2005, a level consistent with the
previous few years. The downward trend in viewing to these
services has levelled off since 2000-01.
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In all provinces excluding Quebec, Canadian
English-language pay and specialty services, including digital,
achieved a 37.6% viewing share in 2005. The trending is still
going up, but at a slower pace.
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In Quebec, the SRC improved its viewing
share to 13.4% in 2005, while Canadian private French-language
conventional services decreased their share slightly to 37%. Pay
and specialty services, including digital, improved their
position to slightly 30%.
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Total revenues for
English-language private conventional services in 2005 were the
same level as the total revenues of pay, pay-per-view and
specialty television services in 2005, with conventional coming
in at $1.76 billion and the others at $1.76 billion. In
2004, their revenues were $1.693 and $1.637 billion
respectively. Their PBIT margins in 2005 were posted at 11% for
conventional services and 26% for pay, specialty and
pay-per-view services. Revenues for French-language private
conventional television rose to $434 million in 2005, up from
$422 million in 2004, while those for pay, pay-per-view and
specialty services totalled $368 million, a slight increase from
$363 million in 2004. They recorded PBIT margins of 11% and 23%
respectively. Revenues for ethnic and third-language pay and
specialty services, meanwhile, increased from $51 million in
2004 to $57 million in 2005, and their PBIT margin was 20% in
2005.
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Effective 2004-05, pay and specialty
services are reporting programming expenditures by category.
$162.5 million or 22% of the Canadian programming expenditures
reported by these services was on Drama & Comedy
programming. A total of $334.5 million or 46% was spent on
Canadian News and Other information programming
categories.
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According to BBM metered data for the
2004-2005 broadcast year, dramas and comedies remain the most
popular television programs, capturing 44% of all television
viewing. According to the same source, English-language Canadian
dramas and comedies broadcast by private conventional
English-language Canadian stations capture 10% of the viewing to
all drama and comedy programs on those stations. In comparison,
Canadian drama and comedy programs broadcast by the CBC account
for 35% of the viewing to the genre on CBC stations, and
Canadian pay and specialty services capture 31% of the viewing
to the genre on those services. For Francophone services,
Canadian drama and comedy programs broadcast by private
conventional stations garner 26% of the viewing to the genre on
those stations as compared to 58% for the SRC and 34% for
Canadian specialty and pay services.
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Since the
adoption of the CRTC’s television policy in 1999, tangible
benefits to the Canadian broadcasting system flowing from
television ownership transfers have totalled $545 million.
(Source: 2006 Report issued June 30th)
Related
Documents
Broadcasting Policy Monitoring
Reports
Date Modified: 2006-07-06 |
