CMN 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canadian Content, Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, Multichannel Video Programming Distributor

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Pierre Belanger

Document Summary

The crtc is an administrative tribunal that regulates and supervises broadcasting and telecommunications in the public interest. The crtc is the body responsible for regulating the radio, television and telecom munications industry in canada. Think of it as the court of communications! Licensing, compliance, providing approval, encouraging competition, taking complaints, providing information, public consultations. Quotas: mandated quotas of content that qualifies as being. Investment: requiring canadian media companies to invest a percentage of their revenues in the development of canadian programming; Licensing conditions: when a broadcaster seeks the renewal of its license every 5 to 7 years, the crtc can impose licensing conditions directly related to cancon. For example, when the cbc renewed its licenses in november 2013, the crtc imposed the following condition: during each broadcast year, the licensee must spend a minimum 75% of the broadcast day and a minimum of.