- SHORT TITLE
- INTERPRETATION
- APPLICATION
- CANADIAN PROGRAMS
- PROGRAMMING CONTENT
- POLITICAL BROADCASTS
- ETHNIC PROGRAMS
- LOGS AND RECORDS
- ADVERTISING MATERIAL
- SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION
- AFFILIATION
- OWNERSHIP OF EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES
- TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP OR CONTROL
- UNDUE PREFERENCE OR DISADVANTAGE
- SCHEDULE I
- SCHEDULE II
Regulations Respecting Television Broadcasting (SOR/87-49)
Enabling Statute: Broadcasting Act
Regulation current to February 26th, 2011
Attention: See coming into force provision and notes, where applicable.
Television Broadcasting Regulations, 1987
SOR/87-49
Registration January 9, 1987
BROADCASTING ACT
Television Broadcasting Regulations, 1987
Whereas a copy of proposed Regulations respecting television broadcasting, substantially in the form annexed hereto, was published in the Canada Gazette Part I on August 9, 1986 and a reasonable opportunity was thereby afforded to licensees and other interested persons to make representations with respect hereto;
Therefore, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, on the recommendation of the Executive Committee, pursuant to subsection 16(1) of the Broadcasting Act, hereby revokes sections 5 to 7 and 9 to 24 and Schedules I and II of the Television Broadcasting Regulations, C.R.C., c. 381, effective January 9, 1987, and sections 1 to 4 and 8 of the said Regulations, effective October 1, 1987, and makes the annexed Regulations respecting television broadcasting, effective January 9, 1987.
Hull, Quebec, January 9, 1987
REGULATIONS RESPECTING TELEVISION BROADCASTING
SHORT TITLE
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Television Broadcasting Regulations, 1987.
INTERPRETATION
2. In these Regulations,
“Act” means the Broadcasting Act; (Loi)
“advertising material” means any commercial message and programming that promotes a station, network or program, but does not include
(a) a station or network identification,
(b) the announcement of an upcoming program that is voiced over credits,
(c) a program that consists exclusively of classified announcements, if the program is broadcast not more than once during a broadcast day and has a duration of not more than one hour, or
(d) a promotion for a Canadian program or a Canadian feature film, notwithstanding that a sponsor is identified in the title of the program or the film or is identified as a sponsor of that program or that film, where the identification is limited to the name of the sponsor only and does not include a description, representation or attribute of the sponsor’s products or services; (matériel publicitaire)
“affiliation agreement” means an agreement between one or more stations and another party according to which programs provided by the other party will be broadcast by the stations at a predetermined time; (contrat d’affiliation)
“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)
“baseband” means signals in the frequency range 0 to 120 kHz that are used as input to the sound transmitter of a station; (bande de base)
“broadcast day”, in respect of a licensee, means the period of up to 18 consecutive hours, beginning each day not earlier than six o’clock in the morning and ending not later than one o’clock in the morning of the following day, as selected by the licensee; (journée de radiodiffusion)
“broadcast month”, in respect of a licensee, means the total number of hours devoted by the licensee to broadcasting during the aggregate of the broadcast days in a month; (mois de radiodiffusion)
“broadcast year”, in respect of a licensee, means the total number of hours devoted by the licensee to broadcasting during the aggregate of the broadcast months in a 12 month period, beginning on September 1 in any year; (année de radiodiffusion)
“Canadian program” means a program
(a) in respect of which a Canadian film or video production certificate referred to in section 125.4 of the Income Tax Act has been issued by the Minister of Canadian Heritage, or
(b) that qualifies as a Canadian program in accordance with the criteria established by the Commission in Appendices I and II to Public Notice CRTC 2000-42 dated March 17, 2000, entitled Certification for Canadian Programs — A Revised Approach and published in the Canada Gazette, Part I, on May 20, 2000; (émission canadienne)
“classified announcement” means an advertisement respecting goods or services offered or sought by a person not engaged in the business of dealing in those goods or services; (petites annonces)
“clock hour” means a period of 60 minutes beginning on each hour and ending immediately prior to the next hour; (heure d’horloge)
“commercial message” means an advertisement intended to sell or promote goods, services, natural resources or activities, including an advertisement that mentions or displays in a list of prizes the name of the person selling or promoting the goods, services, natural resources or activities, and that is broadcast in a break within a program or between programs; (message publicitaire)
“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 in any language that is specifically directed toward any culturally or racially distinct group, other than one whose heritage is Aboriginal Canadian, from France, or from the British Isles; (émission à caractère ethnique)
“ethnic station” means a station that is licensed as an ethnic station; (station à caractère ethnique)
“licensed” means licensed by the Commission pursuant to paragraph 9(1)(b) of the Act; (autorisé)
“licensee” means a station operator or a network operator; (titulaire)
“multiplex channel” means a frequency band centred at 102.27 kHz in the baseband containing a frequency modulated subcarrier; (canal multiplexe)
“network operator” means a person licensed to carry on a television network; (exploitant de réseau)
“official contour” means a service contour marked for a licensed television 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)
“private licence” means a licence issued by the Commission to a person other than the Corporation; (licence privée)
“program” means a broadcast presentation of sound and visual matter that is designed to inform or entertain and that is described by a key figure determined under Schedule I, but does not include visual images, whether or not combined with sounds, that consist predominantly of alphanumeric text; (émission)
“programming” means anything that is broadcast, but does not include visual images, whether or not combined with sounds, that consist predominantly of alphanumeric text; (