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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