RADIO REGULATIONS, 1986
SOR/86-982
KEY
SOR/88-549 am. s. 2, "licensee" - superseded by
SOR/94-222
adds s. 2, "network"
adds s. 8(7)
am. s. 10
am. heading of sch. in French version
- superseded by SOR/91-517
SOR/89-163 adds s. 2.1 plus heading
SOR/91-517 rev. s. 2, "production content"
am. s. 2, "commercial message"
- superseded by SOR/96-324
"content category"
"content subcategory"
"spoken word content"
- superseded by SOR/93-358 "Canadian"(c)
adds s. 2.2 plus heading "Part I.1"
am. Part II
rev. Part III
am. heading of sch. plus reference to
"(Sections 2, 8 and 19)"
am. sch. Parts B, C
rev. Part E
SOR/91-586 am. s. 3(b)
adds s. 3.1
SOR/92-609 am. s. 2.2(2) of French version - superseded
by SOR/93-517
am. s. 9 plus heading
SOR/92-613 am. s. 5(2)(a) - superseded by SOR/93-209
SOR/93-209 am. s. 4(3) - superseded by SOR/97-100
am. s. 4(3)(e) - superseded by
SOR/97-100
am. s. 5 - superseded by SOR/97-290
SOR/93-355 adds s. 10.1 plus heading
am. s. 11
SOR/93-358 rev. s. 2, "spoken word content"
rev. s. 13 plus heading
SOR/93-517 am. heading preceding s. 2.2
am. s. 2.2(2)
adds s. 2.2(5)
am. sch. Part A, items 1-3
adds sch. Part A, item 4
SOR/94-222 am. s. 2, "licensed", "licensee",
"station"
am. s. 2, "réseau" of French version
SOR/95-451 am. s. 4 - superseded by SOR/97-100
SOR/96-324 am. s. 2, "commercial message"
am. s. 2.2(3)
adds s. 2.2 (6)
am. s. 11(1), "associate" (e), (f) of
English version
adds s. 11(3.1)
am. s. 11(4)(b), (c) of English version
adds s. 11(4)(d)
adds s. 14(3)
am. sch. Part A, item 4
adds sch. Part A, item 5
SOR/97-100 am. s. 4
SOR/97-290 am. s. 5
CHAPTER 948
BROADCASTING ACT
Radio Regulations, 1986
REGULATIONS RESPECTING RADIO BROADCASTING
Short Title
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Radio Regulations, 1986
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations,
"Act" means the Broadcasting Act; (Loi)
"alcoholic beverage", in respect of a commercial message, means an alcoholic beverage the sale of which is regulated by the law of the province in which the commercial message is broadcast; (boisson alcoolisée)
"A.M. licensee" means a person licensed to operate an A.M. station; (titulaire M.A.)
"A.M. station" means a station that broadcasts in the A.M. frequency band of 525 to 1605 kHz, but does not include a transmitter that only rebroadcasts the radiocommunications of a licensee; (station M.A.)
"broadcast day" means the total number of hours devoted to broadcasting for a period beginning at six o'clock in the forenoon and ending at midnight on the same day; (journée de radiodiffusion)
"broadcast week" means seven consecutive broadcast days, beginning on Sunday; (semaine de radiodiffusion)
"Canadian" means
(a) a Canadian citizen,
(b) a permanent resident, as defined in the Immigration Act, 1976,
(c) a person whose ordinary place of residence was in Canada throughout the six months immediately preceding that person's contribution to a musical composition, performance or concert, or
(d) a licensee; (canadien)
"commercial message" means an advertisement intended to sell or promote goods, services, natural resources or activities and includes an advertisement that mentions or displays in a list of prizes the name of the person selling or promoting those goods, services, natural resources or activities; (message publicitaire)
"content category" means any category of broadcast matter that is described in the appendix to Public Notice 1991-19 dated February 14, 1991 and entitled Implementation of an F.M. Policy and published in the Canada Gazette Part I on February 23, 1991; (catégorie de teneur)
"content subcategory" means a subcategory of broadcast matter that is described in the appendix to Public Notice 1991-19 dated February 14, 1991 and entitled Implementation of an F.M. Policy and published in the Canada Gazette Part I on February 23, 1991; (sous-catégorie de teneur)
"election period" means
(a) in the case of a federal or provincial election or of a federal, provincial or municipal referendum, the period beginning on the date of the announcement of the election or referendum and ending on the date the election or referendum is held, or
(b) in the case of a municipal election, the period beginning two months before the date of the election and ending on the date the election is held; (période électorale)
"ethnic program" means a program of Type A, B, C or D, as described in the schedule; (émission à caractère ethnique)
"ethnic station" means an A.M. station or an F.M. station that is licensed as an ethnic station; (station à caractère ethnique)
"F.M. licensee" means a person licensed to operate an F.M. station; (titulaire M.F.)
"F.M. station" means a station that broadcasts in the F.M. frequency band of 88 to 108 MHz, but does not include a transmitter that only rebroadcasts the radiocommunications of a licensee; (station M.F.)
"licensed" means licensed by the Commission pursuant to paragraph 9(1)(b) of the Act; (autorisé)
"licensee" means a person licensed to operate an A.M. station, an F.M. station or a radio network; (titulaire)
"network" means a licensed radio network; (réseau)
"official contour" means a service contour marked for a licensed A.M. station or a licensed F.M. station on the map most recently published pursuant to the Department of Communications Act by the Minister of Communications pertaining to that station; (périmètre de rayonnement officiel)
"production content" revoked
"quarter hour" means a period of 15 minutes, commencing on the hour, or 15, 30 or 45 minutes past the hour; (quart d'heure)
"spoken word content" revoked
"station" means a radio programming undertaking or a broadcasting transmitting undertaking. (station)
Application
2.1 (1) These Regulations do not apply in respect of programming that is broadcast by a licensee using a subsidiary communications multiplex operations channel.
(2) For the purposes of this section,
"baseband" means signals in the frequency range of 0 to 99 kHz that are used as input to the transmitter of an F.M. station; (bande de base)
"subsidiary communications multiplex operations channel" means a frequency band containing one or more subcarriers that is centred at 76 kHz in the baseband during stereophonic or monophonic transmission in the main channel or at 59.5 kHz in the baseband where there is no stereophonic or monophonic transmission in the main channel. (canal d'exploitation multiplexe de communications secondaires)
PART 1
Canadian and Musical Content
2.2(1) For the purposes of this section, "ethnic programming period" means that portion of a broadcast week during which a licensee broadcasts ethnic programs.
(2) For the purposes of this section, "Canadian selection" means a musical selection
(a) that meets at least two of the following conditions, namely,
(i) the music is or lyrics are performed principally by a Canadian,
(ii) the music is composed entirely by a Canadian,
(iii) the lyrics are written entirely by a Canadian,
(iv) the musical selection consists of a live performance that is
(A) recorded wholly in Canada, or
(B) performed wholly in and broadcast live in Canada, and
(v) the musical selection was performed live or recorded after September 1, 1991, and a Canadian who has collaborated with a non-Canadian receives at least fifty per cent of the credit as composer and lyricist according to the records of a recognized performing rights society;
(b) that is an instrumental performance of a musical composition that meets the conditions set out in subparagraph (a)(ii) or (iii);
(c) that is a performance of a musical composition that a Canadian has composed for instruments only; or
(d) that has already qualified as a Canadian selection under regulations previously in effect.
(3) Subject to subsection (6) and except as otherwise provided pursuant to a condition of its licence, an A.M. or F.M. licensee shall, each broadcast week, devote 30 per cent or more of the licensee's musical selections from content category 2 and 10 per cent or more of the licensee's musical selections from content category 3 to Canadian selections and schedule those selections in a reasonable manner throughout each broadcast day.
(4) Where 7 per cent or more of the musical selections broadcast by a licensee during an ethnic programming period are Canadian selections and are scheduled in a reasonable manner throughout that period, subsection (3) shall apply only in respect of those musical selections that are broadcast during that part of the broadcast week that is not devoted to ethnic programs.
(5) Except as otherwise provided pursuant to a condition of its licence, an A.M. or F.M. licensee licensed to operate in the French language shall, each broadcast week, devote 65 per cent or more of its vocal musical selections from content category 2 to musical selections in the French language and schedule those selections in a reasonable manner throughout each broadcast day.
(6) An A.M. or F.M. licensee may, in any broadcast week, reduce the proportion of its Canadian musical selections from content category 2 to
(a) not less than 20 per cent, where, in that broadcast week, the licensee devotes not less than 35 per cent and not more than 49 per cent of all its musical selections to instrumental selections; and
(b) not less than 15 per cent, where, in that broadcast week, the licensee devotes 50 per cent or more of all its musical selections to instrumental selections.
PART I.1
Broadcasting Content
3. A licensee shall not broadcast
(a) anything in contravention of the law;
(b) any abusive comment that, when taken in context, tends to or is likely to expose an individual or a group or class of individuals to hatred or contempt on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age or mental or physical disability;
(c) any obscene or profane language;
(d) any false or misleading news; or
(e) any telephone interview or conversation, or any part thereof, with any person unless
(i) the person's oral or written consent to the interview or conversation being broadcast was obtained prior to the broadcast, or
(ii) the person telephoned the station for the purpose of participating in a broadcast.
3.1 For the purposes of paragraph 3(b), sexual orientation does not include the orientation towards any sexual act or activity that would constitute an offence under the Criminal Code.
4. (1) A licensee may broadcast a commercial message directly or indirectly advertising an alcoholic beverage only if
(a) the sponsor is not prohibited from advertising the alcoholic beverage by the laws of the province in which the commercial message is broadcast;
(b) subject to subsection (2), the commercial message is not designed to promote the general consumption of alcoholic beverages; and
(c) the commercial message complies with the Code for Broadcast Advertising of Alcoholic Beverages, published by the Commission on August 1, 1996.
(2) Paragraph (1)(b) does not apply so as to prohibit industry, public service or brand preference advertising.
5. (1) Before January 1, 1999, a licensee shall not broadcast a commercial message for, or an endorsement of, a device to which the Food and Drugs Act applies unless
(a) the script of the commercial message or endorsement has been approved by the Minister of Health to indicate, to the extent that it is possible to do so on the basis of a script, that a commercial message or an endorsement conforming to the approved script would comply with the applicable provisions, administered by that Minister, of the Food and Drugs Act, the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and regulations made pursuant to those Acts or to the Department of Health Act; and
(b) the script bears the script number assigned to it by that Minister.
(2) Before January 1, 1999, when a licensee broadcasts a commercial message or an endorsement referred to in subsection (1), the licensee shall keep a record of the script for a period of one year after the date of the broadcast, which record shall contain
(a) the name of the device to which the script relates;
(b) the name of the sponsor or advertising agency that submitted the script for approval; and
(c) the script number referred to in paragraph (1)(b).
(3) A licensee shall provide the record required by subsection (2) to the Commission or to an inspector designated pursuant to the Food and Drugs Act, acting on behalf of the Commission, where the Commission or the inspector so requests for the purpose of audit or examination.
(4) The approval of the script of a commercial message or an endorsement referred to in subsection (1) does not indicate that the commercial message or endorsement complies with the applicable legislation.
Political Broadcasts
6. During an election period, a licensee shall allocate time for the broadcasting of programs, advertisements or announcements of a partisan political character on an equitable basis to all accredited political parties and rival candidates represented in the election or referendum.
Ethnic Programs
7. (1) The licensee of an ethnic station shall devote not less than 60 per cent of its broadcast week to ethnic programs.
(2) The licensee of a station other than an ethnic station shall not devote more than 15 per cent of its broadcast week to ethnic programs unless it is authorized pursuant to a condition of its licence to devote up to 40 per cent of its broadcast week to ethnic programs.
Logs and Records
8. (1) A licensee shall
(a) keep, in a form acceptable to the Commission, a program log or a machine readable record of the matter broadcast by the licensee;
(b) retain the log or record for a period of one year after the date when the matter was broadcast; and
(c) cause to be entered in the log or record each day the following information:
(i) the date,
(ii) the call letters, location and frequency of the licensee's station,
(iii) the time at which each station identification announcement is made,
(iv) in relation to each program broadcast,
(A) the title and a brief description,
(B) subject to subsection (2), the number of the relevant content category,
(C) the time at which the program begins and ends, and
(D) the code set out in the schedule indicating the origin of the program and where applicable the language, type or group, and
(v) in relation to each commercial message, the quarter hour during which it is broadcast, its duration and the number of the relevant content subcategory.
(2) Where a program falls into more than one content category, a licensee shall cause to be entered in its program log or machine readable record the two principal content categories in descending order of their relative importance in terms of broadcast time.
(3) The times required to be entered pursuant to subparagraph (1)(c)(iii), clause (1)(c)(iv)(C) and subparagraph (1)(c)(v) are local times.
(4) A licensee shall furnish, to the Commission on request, its program log or machine readable record for any day, with a certificate by or on behalf of the licensee attesting to the accuracy of its content.
(5) A licensee shall retain a clear and intelligible tape recording or other exact copy of all matter broadcast
(a) for four weeks from the date of the broadcast; or
(b) where the Commission receives a complaint from any person regarding the matter broadcast or for any other reason wishes to investigate it and so notifies the licensee before the expiration of the period referred to in paragraph (a), for eight weeks from the date of the broadcast.
(6) Where, before the expiry of the applicable period referred to in subsection (5), the Commission requests from the licensee a clear and intelligible tape recording or other exact copy of matter broadcast, the licensee shall furnish it to the Commission forthwith.
(7) Subsections (1) to (4) apply only in respect of A.M. and F.M. licensees.
Requests for Information
9. (1) For the purposes of this section,
"Canadian musical selection" means a musical selection that meets the criteria set out in subsection 2.2(2); (pièce musicale canadienne)
"hit" has the meaning indicated on pages 19 to 22 of Public Notice CRTC 1986-248 of September 19, 1986 entitled Regulations Respecting Radio Broadcasting and published in the Canada Gazette Part I on October 4, 1986, as amended by page 23 of Public Notice CRTC 1990-111 of December 17, 1990 entitled An FM Policy for the Nineties and published in the Canada Gazette Part I on December 29, 1990. (grand succès)
(2) On or before November 30 of each year, a licensee shall submit to the Commission a statement of accounts, on the annual return of broadcasting licensee form, for the year ending on the previous August 31.
(3) At the request of the Commission, a licensee shall submit for any period specified by the Commission in its request
(a) the information required by the most recent Station Self-assessment Report form issued by the Commission; and
(b) a list of the musical selections in the order in which they are broadcast by the licensee during that period that includes the title and performer of each musical selection and a legend that identifies
(i) any Canadian musical selection,
(ii) any hit,
(iii) any instrumental selection,
(iv) any category 3 musical selection within the meaning of Public Notice CRTC 1991-19 of February 14, 1991 entitled Implementation of the FM Policy and published in the Canada Gazette Part I on February 23, 1991, and
(v) the language of the musical selection, where the musical selection is not an instrumental selection.
(4) At the request of the Commission, a licensee shall provide the Commission with a response to any inquiry regarding the licensee's programming, ownership or any other matter within the Commission's jurisdiction that relates to the licensee's undertaking.
Affiliation
10. (1) For the purposes of this section, "affiliation agreement" means an agreement between one or more A.M. licensees or F.M. licensees and another party, according to which programs provided by the other party will be broadcast by the licensee's station at a predetermined time.
(2) An A.M. licensee or an F.M. licensee shall not enter into an affiliation agreement with a person falling within a class described in section 3 of the Direction to the CRTC (Eligible Canadian Corporations).
Ownership of Equipment and Facilities
10.1 Except as otherwise provided pursuant to a condition of its licence, a licensee shall own and operate its transmitter.
Transfer of Ownership or Control
11. (1) For the purposes of this section,
"associate", when used to indicate a relationship with any person, includes
(a) a partner of the person,
(b) a trust or an estate in which the person has a substantial beneficial interest or in respect of which the person serves as a trustee or in a similar capacity,
(c) a spouse, common-law spouse, son, daughter, son-in-law or daughter-in-law of the person,
(d) a relative, not referred to in paragraph (c), of the person, or of the person's spouse or common-law spouse, who has the same residence as that person,
(e) a corporation of which the person alone, or a person together with one or more associates as described in this definition, has, directly or indirectly, control of 50 per cent or more of the voting interests,
(f) a corporation of which an associate, as described in this definition, of the person has, directly or indirectly, control of 50 per cent or more of the voting interests, and
(g) a person, with whom the person has entered into an arrangement, a contract, an understanding or an agreement in respect of the voting of shares of a licensee corporation or of a corporation that has, directly or indirectly, effective control of a licensee corporation, except where that person controls less than one per cent of all issued voting shares of a corporation whose shares are publicly traded on a stock exchange; (liens)
"common shares" means the shares that represent the residual equity in the earnings of a corporation, and includes the preferred shares to which are attached rights to participate in the earnings of the corporation with no upper limit; (actions ordinaires)
"person" includes an individual, a partnership, a joint venture, an association, a corporation, a trust, an estate, a trustee, an executor and an administrator, or a legal representative of any of them; (personne)
"voting interest", in respect of
(a) a corporation with share capital, means the vote attached to a voting share,
(b) a corporation without share capital, means an interest that entitles the owner to voting rights similar to those enjoyed by the owner of a voting share,
(c) a partnership, a trust, an association or a joint venture, means an ownership interest in the assets of it that entitles the owner to receive a share of the profits of it, to receive a share of the assets of it on dissolution and to participate directly in the management of it or to vote on the election of the persons to be entrusted with the power and responsibility to manage it, and
(d) a not-for-profit partnership, trust, association or joint venture, means a right that entitles the owner to participate directly in the management of it or to vote on the election of the persons to be entrusted with the power and responsibility to manage it; (intérêt avec droit de vote)
"voting share" means a share in the capital of a corporation, to which is attached one or more votes that are exercisable at meetings of shareholders of the corporation, either under all circumstances or under a circumstance that has occurred and is continuing, and includes any security that is convertible into such a share at all times at the option of the holder. (action avec droit de vote)
(2) For the purposes of this section, control of a voting interest by a person includes situations in which
(a) the person is, directly or indirectly, the beneficial owner of the voting interest; or
(b) the person, by means of an arrangement, a contract, an understanding or an agreement, determines the manner in which the interest is voted but the solicitation of proxies or the seeking of instructions with respect to the completion of proxies in respect of the exercise of voting interests is not considered to be such an arrangement, contract, understanding or agreement.
(3) For the purposes of this section, effective control of a licensee or its undertaking includes situations in which
(a) a person controls, directly or indirectly, other than by way of security only, a majority of the voting interests of the licensee;
(b) a person has the ability to cause the licensee or its board of directors to undertake a course of action; or
(c) the Commission, after a public hearing of an application for a licence, or in respect of an existing licence, determines that a person has such effective control and sets out that determination in a decision or public notice.
(3.1) For the purposes of paragraph 4(d), "market" means
(a) in the case of an A.M. station, the A.M. daytime 15mV/m contour or the central area as defined by the Bureau of Broadcast Measurements (BBM), whichever is smaller; or
(b) in the case of an F.M. station, the F.M. 3mV/m contour or the central area as defined by the Bureau of Broadcast Measurement (BBM), whichever is smaller.
(4) Except as otherwise provided pursuant to a condition of its licence, a licensee shall obtain the prior approval of the Commission in respect of any act, agreement or transaction that directly or indirectly would result in
(a) a change by whatever means of the effective control of its undertaking;
(b) a person alone
(i) who controls less than 30 per cent of the voting interests of the licensee, having control of 30 per cent or more of those interests,
(ii) who controls less than 30 per cent of the voting interests of a person who has, directly or indirectly, effective control of the licensee, having control of 30 per cent or more of those interests,
(iii) who owns less than 50 per cent of the issued common shares of the licensee, owning 50 per cent or more of those shares but not having, directly or indirectly, effective control of the licensee, or
(iv) who owns less than 50 per cent of the issued common shares of a person who has directly or indirectly, effective control of the licensee, owning 50 per cent or more of those shares but not having, directly or indirectly, effective control of the licensee;
(c) a person together with an associate
(i) who control less than 30 per cent of the voting interests of the licensee, having control of 30 per cent or more of those interests,
(ii) who control less than 30 per cent of the voting interests of a person who has directly or indirectly, effective control of the licensee, having control of 30 per cent or more of those interests,
(iii) who own less than 50 per cent of the issued common shares of the licensee, owning 50 per cent or more of those shares but not having, directly or indirectly, effective control of the licensee, or
(iv) who own less than 50 per cent of the issued common shares of a person who has, directly or indirectly, effective control of the licensee, owning 50 per cent or more of those shares but not having, directly or indirectly, effective control of the licensee; or
(d) the licensee or an associate of the licensee acquiring a voting interest in a second A.M. or F.M. licensee or in the associate of a second A.M. or F.M. licensee, where the second A.M. or F.M. licensee or its associate broadcasts in the same market and in the same language as the acquiring licensee or associate and is not a corporation with shares publicly traded on a stock exchange.
(5) A licensee shall notify the Commission, within 30 days thereafter, of the occurrence of any act, agreement or transaction that, directly or indirectly, resulted in
(a) a person alone
(i) who controls less than 20 per cent of the voting interests of the licensee, having control of 20 per cent or more but less than 30 per cent of those interests,
(ii) who controls less than 20 per cent of the voting interests of a person who has, directly or indirectly, effective control of the licensee, having control of 20 per cent or more but less than 30 per cent of those interests,
(iii) who controls less than 40 per cent of the voting interests of the licensee, having control of 40 per cent or more but less than 50 per cent of those interests but not having, directly or indirectly, effective control of the licensee, or
(iv) who controls less than 40 per cent of the voting interests of a person who has, directly or indirectly, effective control of the licensee, having control of 40 per cent or more but less than 50 per cent of those interests but not having, directly or indirectly, effective control of the licensee; or
(b) a person together with an associate
(i) who control less than 20 per cent of the voting interests of the licensee, having control of 20 per cent or more but less than 30 per cent of those interests,
(ii) who control less than 20 per cent of the voting interests of a person who has, directly or indirectly, effective control of the licensee, having control of 20 per cent or more but less than 30 per cent of those interests,
(iii) who control less than 40 per cent of the voting interests of the licensee, having control of 40 per cent or more but less than 50 per cent of those interests but not having, directly or indirectly, effective control of the licensee, or
(iv) who control less than 40 per cent of the voting interests of a person who has, directly or indirectly, effective control of the licensee, having control of 40 per cent or more but less than 50 per cent of those interests but not having, directly or indirectly, effective control of the licensee.
(6) A notification referred to in subsection (5) shall set out the following information:
(a) the name of the person or the names of the person and the associate;
(b) the percentage of the voting interests controlled by the person or by the person and the associate; and
(c) a copy or a complete description of the act, agreement or transaction.
PART II
Application
12. This Part applies in respect of F.M. licensees only.
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14. (1) An F.M. licensee who also holds an A.M. licence shall not broadcast simultaneously on its F.M. station, during the broadcast day, the same matter this is being broadcast on its A.M. station if any part of the F.M. 3 mV/m contour overlaps any part of the A.M. daytime 15 mV/m contour.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a licensee may broadcast simultaneously if the simultaneous broadcasting is authorized pursuant to a condition of the licensee's licence or if the broadcast consists of a special live program that includes commentary that is an integral part of the program and relates to
(a) a royal or vice-regal address, including a speech from the throne;
(b) an address by the Prime Minister of Canada or the first minister of a province;
(c) the results of a federal, provincial or municipal election or referendum;
(d) a federal, provincial or municipal budget; or
(e) an announcement of an emergency situation or disaster as issued by a police department, fire department or any organization designated by a federal, provincial or municipal government as being responsible for the coordination of emergency relief.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a licensee may broadcast simultaneously for a maximum of 42 hours during any broadcast week.
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SCHEDULE
(Sections 2 and 8)
CODES INDICATING ORIGIN, LANGUAGE,
TYPE AND GROUP OF PROGRAMMING
A. Code Indicating Origin
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Item Column I Column II
Code Description
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1. Local Local programming, as defined in Public Notice
CRTC 1993-38 dated April 19, 1993, published
in the Canada Gazette Part I on May 1, 1993,
as amended from time to time
2. Net (to be Programming obtained from a network licensed
followed by by the Commission
the name of
the network)
3. Rebroad Programming rebroad-cast from another station,
other than a network.
4. Simulcast Programming simulcast pursuant to subsection
(3) of these Regulations
5. Other Programming other than local programming, network
programming, rebroadcasts from another station or
simulcasts
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B. Code Indicating Language
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Item Column I Column II
Code Description
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1. (abbreviated name) Programming in a language other than the
official language for which the station was
principally licensed or, in the case of an
ethnic station, the language of the spoken
word content of the program
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C. CODE INDICATING TYPE
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Item Column I Column II
Code Description
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1. Type A A program the spoken word content of which is
in a language other than French, English, or a
language of the aboriginal peoples of Canada
2. Type B A program the spoken word content of which is
in French or English and that is directed toward
a distinct ethnic group the mother tongue or
common language of which in its country of origin
is French or English
3. Type C A program the spoken word content of which is in
French or English and that is directed toward a
distinct ethnic group the mother tongue of which
is included in Type A
4. Type D A bilingual program the spoken word content of
which is in French or English as well as a language
other than French, English or a language of the
aboriginal peoples of Canada and that is directed
toward a distinct ethnic group
5. Type E A program the spoken word content of which is in
French or English and that is directed toward
ethnic groups or the general public and that depicts Canada's cultural
diversity through services that are multicultural,
cross-cultural or inter-cultural
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D. CODE INDICATING GROUP
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Item Column I Column II
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1. (Abbreviated name) The distinct ethnic group at which a program
of Type A,B,C, or D is directed
E. Repealed