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Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2009-63

  Route reference:
Broadcasting Public Notice 2008-1
  Ottawa, 11 February 2009
 

Conditions of licence for campus radio stations

  In the appendix to this document, the Commission sets out conditions of licence that apply to licensees of all campus radio stations. It updates the list set out in the appendix to Public Notice 2000-156.
 

Introduction

1.

In the appendix to Public Notice 2000-156, the Commission set out a list of conditions of licence applicable to licensees of campus radio stations. In the appendix to this document, the Commission updates those conditions of licence to take into account the results of revisions to its policies for radio that have occurred since Public Notice 2000-156 was released.

2.

The changes are summarized below.
 
  • In condition of licence 1, the Commission replaces the reference to the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' (CAB) Sex-Role Portrayal Code for Television and Radio Programming with a reference to the CAB's Equitable Portrayal Code. This reflects the Commission's determination set out in Broadcasting Public Notice 2008-23.
 
  • Conditions of licence 11 and 14, which relate to the broadcast of hits, have been revised to reflect the Commission's determinations set out in Broadcasting Regulatory Policy 2009-61.
  Secretary General
 

Related documents

 
  • Policy regarding the broadcast of hits by English-language FM radio stations, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2009-61, 11 February 2009
 
  • Equitable Portrayal Code – Regulatory policy, Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2008-23, 17 March 2008
 
  • New licence form for campus radio stations, Public Notice CRTC 2000-156, 16 November 2000
 
  • Revised content categories and subcategories for radio, Public Notice CRTC 2000-14, 28 January 2000
 
  • Campus radio policy, Public Notice CRTC 2000-12, 28 January 2000
 
  • Services using the vertical blanking interval (television) or subsidiary communications multiplex operation (FM), Public Notice CRTC 1989-23, 23 March 1989
  This document is available in alternative format upon request, and may also be examined in PDF format or in HTML at the following Internet site: http://www.crtc.gc.ca.
 

Appendix to Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2009-63

 

Conditions of licence for campus radio stations

 

Conditions for community-based campus, instructional campus and developmental campus radio stations

 

1. If the licensee originates 42 or more hours of programming in any broadcast week, the licensee shall adhere to the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Equitable Portrayal Code, as amended from time to time and approved by the Commission.

 

2. The licensee shall adhere to the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Broadcast code for advertising to children, as amended from time to time and approved by the Commission.

 

3. The licensee shall not affiliate with or disaffiliate from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation without the prior written approval of the Commission.

 

4. Subject to condition of licence 5, the undertaking shall be operated on the basis of the contours and particulars contained in the approved application.

 

5. The licence is also subject to any other conditions of licence that are specified in the most recent renewal decision (other than an administrative renewal) or, if there has been no renewal, in the initial licensing decision and in any subsequent written authorizations granted during the term of this licence.

 

6. The licensee shall broadcast, during each broadcast week, no more than 504 minutes of advertising (content category 5), with a maximum of 4 minutes in any hour of the broadcast week.

 

Conditions for FM stations only

 

7. As outlined in Services using the vertical blanking interval (television) or subsidiary communications multiplex operation (FM), Public Notice CRTC 1989-23, 23 March 1989, as amended from time to time, the licensee shall not use its subsidiary communications multiplex operation channel without the prior written approval of the Commission in order to distribute ethnic programs, where the time devoted to these programs represents more than 15% of the broadcast week and the service area overlaps an area already served by an ethnic station.

 

Conditions of community-based campus and instructional stations only

 

8. The licensee shall devote, during each broadcast week, at least 25% of its programming to Spoken Word (content category 1) which is comprised of News (content subcategory 11) and Spoken Word - Other (content subcategory 12), as defined in Revised content categories and subcategories for radio, Public Notice CRTC 2000-14, 28 January 2000, as amended from time to time.

 

9. The licensee shall devote, during each broadcast week, at least two-thirds of its programming to station-produced programming.

 

10. The licensee shall devote, during each broadcast week, a minimum of 5% of its musical selections to musical selections from Special Interest Music (content category 3), as defined in Revised content categories and subcategories for radio, Public Notice CRTC 2000-14, 28 January 2000, as amended from time to time.

 

Condition for English-language community-based campus stations only

 

11. The licensee shall devote no more than 10% of all the musical selections broadcast during each broadcast week to musical selections that qualify as hits, as defined in Policy regarding the broadcast of hits by English-language FM radio stations, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2009-61, 11 February 2009, as amended from time to time.

 

Conditions for instructional stations only

 

12. The licensee shall devote at least 4% of its programming during each broadcast week, excluding vacation periods, to News (content subcategory 11) as defined in Revised content categories and subcategories for radio, Public Notice CRTC 2000-14, 28 January 2000, as amended from time to time.

 

13. The licensee shall devote, during each broadcast week, at least 2 hours of its programming to formal education programming that provides academic instruction.

 

Condition for English-language instructional stations only

 

14. The licensee shall devote no more than 30% of all the musical selections broadcast during each broadcast week to musical selections that qualify as hits, as defined in Policy regarding the broadcast of hits by English-language FM radio stations, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2009-61, 11 February 2009, as amended from time to time.

Date Modified: 2009-02-11

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