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Revised list of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution as of 23 January 2012
The notes located at the end of the list form an integral part of the authorization
WCVB-TV Boston/WKBW-TV Buffalo/WVNY Burlington/
WXYZ-TV Detroit/WJET-TV Erie/KSTP-TV Minneapolis/
KXLY-TV Spokane/KOMO-TV Seattle (ABC affiliate)
WBZ-TV Boston/WIVB-TV Buffalo/WCAX-TV Burlington/
WSEE Erie/WTOL-TV Toledo/WCCO-TV Minneapolis/
KREM-TV Spokane/KIRO-TV Seattle/WWJ-TV Detroit (CBS affiliate)
WHDH-TV Boston/WGRZ-TV Buffalo/WPTZ Burlington/
WDIV Detroit/WICU-TV Erie/KARE Minneapolis/
KHQ-TV Spokane/KING-TV Seattle (NBC affiliate)
WUTV Buffalo/WFFF-TV Burlington/WFTC Minneapolis/
WUHF Rochester/KAYU-TV Spokane/KCPQ Tacoma/
WFXT Boston (FOX affiliate)
WGBH-TV Boston/WNED-TV Buffalo/WETK Burlington/
WTVS Detroit/WQLN Erie/KSPS-TV Spokane/KCTS-TV Seattle (PBS affiliate)
KSTW (IND) Tacoma/Seattle
KTLA Los Angeles
KWGN-TV Denver
WGN-TV Chicago
WPCH-TV Atlanta
WPIX New York City
WSBK-TV Boston
WUAB-TV (IND) Cleveland
WWOR-TV New York City
Aaj Tak Channel
AAJ TV
Aapka Colors
Aastha Bhajan
Al Arabiya News Channel
Al Jazeera*
Al Jazeera English
American Movie Classics
Ariana Television
ART America
ART Movies
ARY Musik
ARY News
ARY Qtv
ARY Zauq
The Arts and Entertainment Network (A&E)
Asianet Plus
ATV Home Channel (America)
Azteca 13 International
Baby TV
BabyFirstTV
BBC World
Beijing TV
Benfica TV
Benglavision
Big Ten Network
Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Bloomberg Television
Bridges TV
BVN-TV
Cable News Network (CNN)
Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-Span)
Canal 52 MX
Canal de las Estrellas Latinoamérica
Canal SUR
Caracol Television International
CaribVision
CBS Sports Network
CCTV-4
CCTV Entertainment Channel
Channel-i
Channel One
Channel One Russia Worldwide TV
Channel [V] Taiwan
China Yellow River Television Station
Cine Bangla
CineLatino
CNN Headline News (CNN-2)
CNN International
Comedy Central
Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC)
Court TV
Cubavision Internacional
Dandana TV
Dawn News
Danwn News (Urdu)
De Pelicula Channel
Deutsche Welle
Dragon TV
Ekushey TV (ETV)
El Gourmet.com
ET-Global Channel
Eternal Word Television Network
ETV Bangla
Eurochannel
EuroNews
Eurosportnews
Express News
The Filipino Channel
Fox Business Network
Fox News
France 24 (English)
France 24 (French)
Future Television Channel
Game Show Network
GEO TV
German Kino Plus
German TV
GMA Life TV
GMA News TV
GMA Pinoy TV
The Golf Channel
Gone Viral TV
Grandes Documentales de TVE
HDNet
Headlines Today Channel
Hope Channel TV
Horizon Channel
HTV
Hunan Satellite TV
Indus Music
Indus Vision
ITVN
Jewish Life Television
Jiangsu International TV Channel
KTO
LBC America
The Learning Channel
Lifetime Television
LUXE.TV
Masala Television
MBC Channel (America)
Mezzo
Military Channel
MSNBC
Muslim Television Ahmadiyya
MyZen.TV
NASA Television
NDTV GOOD TIMES
NDTV India
NDTV Profit
Network TEN (Australia)
NEW SAT
New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV)
NFL Network
NTV Bangla
Oxygen Network
Paris-Première
Phoenix InfoNews Channel
Phoenix North American Chinese Channel (PNACC)
Planète
Planète Thalassa
Playboy TV**
Polsat 2 International
Premiere Futebole Clube (PFC)
ProSiebenSat.1 Welt
PTV-Prime USA
Radio-France outre-mer (RFO1)
Radio Television Portugal International (RTPi)
RAI International 2
RAINews
Ritmoson Latino Channel
Romanian Television International (RTVI)
RTR-Planeta TV
RTV
RTV Palma
Russia Today
Sahara One
Sahara Samay
SIC Noticias
The Satellite Channel of Southern Television Guandong
The Silent Network (Kaleidoscope)
Sony Entertainment Television Asia (SET Asia)
Sony Max
Southeast TV Station
Speed Channel
Spike TV
Star Chinese Channel
Star Chinese Movies 2
Star India Gold
Star India News Channel
Star India One Channel
Star India Plus
Sun TV
Supercanal Caribe
Suvarna
TELEFE Internacional
TL Novelas Channel
TRACE TV
TV Asia
TV Chile
TVColombia
TV Globo Internacional
TV Japan
TV Land
TV Polonia
TVE Internacional
TV3 Republic of Ireland
TV3 Television Network (New Zealand)
TV4 Television Network (New Zealand)
Turner Classic Movies
Utilisima
Vijay Channel
The Weather Channel (TWC)
WMNB-TV: Russian-American Broadcasting Company
Notes specific to particular services
*On the condition that the licensee has a condition of licence governing the distribution of Al Jazeera
**Playboy TV is only authorized for distribution at the specific request of a subscriber. Distributors are not permitted to package Playboy TV in such a way that subscribers are obligated to purchase Playboy TV in order to purchase any other programming service. Distributors are required to take measures to fully block the reception of both the audio and video portions of Playboy TV to subscribers that request it not be receivable in their home (in either unscrambled or scrambled analog form).
General notes
Authorization for the services on this list is subject to the following:
- Providers of these foreign services must have obtained and must remain in possession of all necessary rights for the distribution of their programming in Canada.
- Providers of these foreign services must not hold, nor try to obtain, nor exercise, preferential or exclusive programming rights in relation to the distribution of programming in Canada.
- Licensees are permitted to distribute to their subscribers no more than two sets of U.S. commercial and
non-commercial stations, unless otherwise authorized by the Commission. Specifically,
- licensees not already authorized to distribute to their subscribers a set of U.S. commercial stations affiliated with ABC, CBS, NBC and/or Fox and a U.S. non-commercial station affiliated with PBS pursuant to section 20 or 48 of the Regulations, may distribute to their subscribers two sets of such stations taken from this list.
- licensees distributing to their subscribers one set of U.S commercial stations affiliated with ABC, CBS, NBC and/or Fox and a U.S. non-commercial station affiliated with PBS pursuant to section 20 or 48 of the Regulations may distribute to their subscribers one additional set of such stations taken from this list. Licensees distributing to their subscribers two or more sets of U.S commercial stations affiliated with ABC, CBS, NBC and/or Fox and U.S. non-commercial stations affiliated with PBS pursuant to section 20 or 48 of the Regulations may not distribute an additional set of such signals taken from this list unless otherwise authorized by the Commission.
The lists set out above include the services appearing on the lists set out as appendices to Revised lists of eligible satellite services - Annual compilation of amendments, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2011-43, 25 January 2011, as amended by:
- Addition of Hope Channel TV to the list of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-32, 23 January 2012
- Addition of Dawn News (Urdu) to the list of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-754, 7 December 2011
- Addition of GMA News TV to the list of non-Canadian programing services authorized for distribution, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-731, 25 November 2011
- Addition of Gone Viral TV to the list of non-Canadian programing services authorized for distribution, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-639, 6 October 2011
- Addition of Suvarna to the list of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-606, 22 September 2011
- Addition of Asianet Plus to the list of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-605, 22 September 2011
- Addition of NDTV Profit English to the lists of eligible satellite services for distribution on a digital basis, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-604, 22 September 2011
- Addition of NDTV India to the list of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-603, 22 September 2011
- Addition of RAINews to the lists of eligible satellite services for distribution on a digital basis, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2011-515, 19 August 2011
- Addition of Aapka Colors to the lists of eligible satellite services for distribution on a digital basis, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2011-454, 29 July 2011
- List of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2011-399, 30 June 2011
- Addition of Masala Television to the lists of eligible satellite services for distribution on a digital basis, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2011-328, 17 May 2011
- Addition of six non-Canadian services to the lists of eligible satellite services for distribution on a digital basis, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2011-269, 21 April 2011
- Renaming of CBS College Sports Network as CBS Sports Network on the lists of eligible satellite services, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2011-226, 4 April 2011
- Addition of SIC Noticias to the lists of eligible satellite services for distribution on a digital basis, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2011-208, 24 March 2011
- Addition of five non-Canadian Urdu-language services and one non-Canadian English-language service to the lists of eligible satellite services for distribution on a digital basis, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2011-175, 11 March 2011
- Addition of Jewish Life Television to the lists of eligible satellite services for distribution on a digital basis, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2011-45, 26 January 2011
