Television Broadcasting Regulations, 1987

Television Broadcasting Regulations, 1987

These Regulations may be cited as the Television Broadcasting Regulations, 1987.

In these Regulations, Act means the Broadcasting Act; advertising material means any commercial message and programming that promotes a station, network or program, but does not include a station or network identification, the announcement of an upcoming program that is voiced over credits, a program that consists exclusively of classified announcements if the program is broadcast not more than once during a broadcast day and has a duration of not more than one hour, or a promotion for a Canadian program or a Canadian feature film, notwithstanding that a sponsor is identified in the title of the program or the film or is identified as a sponsor of that program or that film, where the identification is limited to the name of the sponsor only and does not include a description, representation or attribute of the sponsor’s products or services; affiliation agreement means an agreement between one or more stations and another party according to which programs provided by the other party will be broadcast by the stations at a predetermined time; alcoholic beverage means an alcoholic beverage the sale of which is regulated by the law of the province in which the commercial message is broadcast; baseband means signals in the frequency range 0 to 120 kHz that are used as input to the sound transmitter of a station.

The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, on the recommendation of the Executive Committee, pursuant to subsection 16(1) of the Broadcasting Act, hereby revokes sections 5 to 7 and 9 to 24 and Schedules I and II of the Television Broadcasting Regulations, C.R.C., c. 381, effective January 9, 1987, and sections 1 to 4 and 8 of the said Regulations, effective October 1, 1987, and makes the annexed Regulations respecting television broadcasting, effective January 9, 1987.