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Revised list of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution as of 14 June 2013
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
2M Maroc
Aaj Tak Channel
AAJ TV
Aapka Colors
Aastha Bhajan
Aksyon TV
Al Arabiya News Channel
Al Jazeera*
Al Jazeera English
AlphaSat
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)
AXS TV
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
Caribbean Entertainment Everyday Network
CaribVision
CBS Sports Network
CCTV-4
CCTV 9 Documentary
CCTV English News
CCTV Entertainment Channel
CCTV-Français
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
Esperanza TV
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
Greek Cinema
Gone Viral TV
Grandes Documentales de TVE
Headlines Today Channel
HIGHTV 3D
Hope Channel TV
Horizon Channel
HTV
Hunan Satellite TV
Indus Music
Indus Vision
ITVN
Jewish Life Television
Jiangsu International TV Channel
Kapatid TV5
KTO
K TV
LBC America
The Learning Channel
Lifetime Television
LUXE.TV
Masala Television
MBC Channel (America)
Mezzo
Military Channel
MLB Network
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
NHK WORLD TV
Now BNC
Now Mango
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 Global
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 Golf Channel
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 list set out above includes the services appearing on the list set out in appendix 2 to Revised ist of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution - Annual compilation of amendments, Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2013-18, 18 January 2013, as amended by:
- Addition of NHK WORLD TV to the List of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2013-289, 14 June 2013
- Addition of AlphaSat to the List of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2013-243, 14 May 2013
- Addition of Aksyon TV to the List of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2013-242, 14 May 2013
- Addition of Greek Cinema to the List of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2013-192, 17 April 2013
- Addition of Kapatid TV5 to the List of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2013-174, 4 April 2013
- Addition of Esperanza TV to the List of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2013-139, 20 March 2013
- Addition of Now BNC to the List of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2013-56, 13 February 2013
- Addition of HIGHTV 3D to the List of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2013-55, 13 February 2013
- Addition of Caribbean Everyday Entertainment Network to the list of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution - Correction, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-259-1, 7 February 2013
- Addition of Now Mango to the List of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2013-32, 31 January 2013
