CS260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hobo, Saving Hope, Canadian Content
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35% of popular (category 2) music broadcast each week. 65% of popular (category 2) vocal music during a broadcast week bust be in french. Canadian program : producer is canadian, production must earn min. of 6/10 points. Creative functions preformed by canadians: minimum of 35% production"s costs are paid to canadians, minimum of 75% of post-production costs are paid to canadians. Rules for only private commercial broadcasters: cpe (canadian program expenditure): 30% of broadcasters gross revenues must be spent on creating/buying canadian content. An attempt to make sure that broadcasters are buying quality canadian programming: cancon quotas. 50% of all evening (6:00pm-12:00am) programming must be canadian. Average of 55% of the broadcast year must be canadian. Used to be previously 8 hours per week, now has been changed to an expenditure requirement of 5% Recession of 2008 / a response to some of the finical struggles.
