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Route reference: 2014-151

Ottawa, 2 June 2014

Zeste Diffusion inc.
Across Canada

Application 2014-0043-1, received 17 January 2014

Zeste – Licence renewal

  1. The Commission renews the broadcasting licence for the national French-language specialty Category BFootnote 1 service Zeste from 1 September 2014 to 31 August 2021. The conditions of licence are set out in the appendix to this decision.
  2. The Commission did not receive any interventions regarding this application.

Secretary General

*This decision is to be appended to the licence.

Appendix to Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2014-289

Conditions of licence, expectations and encouragements for the national French-language specialty Category B service Zeste

Conditions of licence

  1. The licensee shall adhere to the conditionsset out in Appendix 1 to Standard conditions of licence, expectations and encouragements for Category B pay and specialty services – Corrected Appendices 1 and 2, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2010-786-1, 18 July 2011, as amended from time to time.
  2. With respect to the nature of service:

    (a) The licensee shall provide a national French-language specialty Category B service devoted solely to entertainment, information and educational programs on food and nutrition, with a particular focus on the cultural and social aspects of food, the selection, preparation, cooking and preservation of food, and presentation and the art of entertaining.

    (b) The programming shall be drawn exclusively from the following program categories set out in item 6 of Schedule I to the Specialty Services Regulations, 1990, as amended from time to time:

1 News
2 (a) Analysis and interpretation
(b) Long-form documentary
3 Reporting and actualities
5 (a) Formal education and pre-school
(b) Informal education/Recreation and leisure
7 Drama and comedy
(a) Ongoing dramatic series
(b) Ongoing comedy series (sitcoms)
(c) Specials, mini-series or made-for-TV feature films
(d) Theatrical feature films aired on TV
(e) Animated television programs and films
(f) Programs of comedy sketches, improvisation, unscripted works, stand-up comedy
(g) Other drama
9 Variety
10 Game shows
11 (a) General entertainment and human interest
(b) Reality television
12 Interstitials
13 Public service announcements
14 Infomercials, promotional and corporate videos

  1. The service renewed hereby is designated as a Category B service.

For the purposes of the conditions of this licence, “broadcast day” refers to the 24-hour period beginning each day at 6 a.m. or any other period approved by the Commission.

Expectations

The standard expectations applicable to this licensee are set out in Appendix 1 to Standard conditions of licence, expectations and encouragements for Category B pay and specialty services – Corrected Appendices 1 and 2, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2010-786-1, 18 July 2011, as amended from time to time.

Encouragements

The standard encouragements applicable to this licensee are set out in Appendix 1 to Standard conditions of licence, expectations and encouragements for Category B pay and specialty services – Corrected Appendices 1 and 2, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2010-786-1, 18 July 2011, as amended from time to time.

Footnotes

Footnote 1

Services previously licensed as Category 2 specialty program undertakings are now renewed as specialty Category B services pursuant to Regulatory frameworks for broadcasting distribution services and discretionary programming services – Regulatory policy, Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2008-100, 30 October 2008.

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