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The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC; French: Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes) is a public organization in Canada tasked with the mandate as a regulatory agency tribunal for various electronic communications, covering broadcasting and telecommunications. [2]
The government planned to add a separate licence for cable and satellite television owners and an increase of television licence fee for such users in 1996; [126] it also had planned to increase the television licence fee to RM 36 in 1998. [121] The television licence fees were abolished in April 1999; however people still paid for the fees.
Section 9.1(1)(h) of Canada's Broadcasting Act states: 9.1 (1) The Commission may, in furtherance of its objects, [...] (h) a requirement for a person carrying on a distribution undertaking to carry, on the terms and conditions that the Commission considers appropriate, programming services, specified by the Commission, that are provided by a broadcasting undertaking; [2]
Licensing requirements differ for public radio and television and for community radio and television compared to commercial applicants. Licensees must be aware of deadlines, from original application to renewal, which vary by state [9] [10] and include license expiration and dates for renewals. The form for renewal of a broadcast license in the ...
From Coast to Coast: A Personal History of Radio in Canada (CBC Enterprises, 1985) Troyer, Warner. The sound and the fury: An anecdotal history of Canadian broadcasting (1980) Varga, Darrell. Rain, Drizzle, Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada (2009) online; Vipond, Mary. Listening In: The First Decade of Canadian Broadcasting 1922-1932.
The CRTC addresses issues of media violence, and hate messaging through its regulations for radio, television, speciality services and pay-television. If a broadcaster fails to follow the Broadcasting Act policies or regulations, the CRTC may invoke a number of penalties — such as imposing fines or limiting or denying a station's application ...
Digital terrestrial television in Canada (often shortened to DTT) is transmitted using the ATSC standard.Because Canada and the U.S. use the same standard and frequencies for channels, people near the Canada–United States border can watch digital television programming from television stations in either country where available.
Various fee-for-carriage proposals have been put before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) a number of times over the years, and rejected each time until 2009. In the past, broadcasters sought to receive a fixed per-subscriber fee to be set by the CRTC; in 2007, broadcasters suggested a rate between 10 cents ...