Sentences with phrase «mandatory carriage»
The Rogers basic package costs $ 25 and offers a basic suite of Canadian channels like City, CBC, CTV and Global, plus mandatory carriage channels like CPAC and a few major U.S. offerings including ABC and NBC.
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Only a channel that makes an «exceptional contribution to Canadian expression and reflects Canadian attitudes, opinions, ideas, values and artistic creativity» is worthy of mandatory carriage, according to the commission.
For one, mandatory carriage rules (designed to «safeguard, enrich and strengthen the cultural, political, social and economic fabric of Canada) dictate the channels that all cable providers are required to deliver to viewers.
In its application, Sun News says that CBC News Network and CTV News Channel received mandatory carriage in 1987 and 1996, respectively, and that it's only asking for the same treatment.
Teneycke himself wrote an editorial in 2010 declaring mandatory carriage is «tantamount to a tax on everyone with cable or satellite service.»
Sun News Network is struggling to find viewership and agitating for mandatory carriage with the CRTC.
With so much of the CRTC's criteria for mandatory carriage focusing on making an «exceptional» contribution to the promotion of Canadian values, the event would appear to be a strike against the network.
The future of Sun News Network is in jeopardy after the CRTC refused to grant the channel mandatory carriage status, though the regulator is offering a few concessions.
Sun News is asking for mandatory carriage for five years to help build an audience, and requesting distributors pay it 18 cents per subscriber per month in English Canada and 9 cents each for French language households.
It's not as good as mandatory carriage as far as Sun News is concerned, but the change would address one of its complaints.
Teneycke emphasized repeatedly during the hearings that anything other than mandatory carriage would be a «death sentence» for Sun News.
Opponents to the network's mandatory carriage request reference it repeatedly in their letters to the CRTC.
For years, Canadian specialty channels depended on so - called mandatory carriage rules to get access to cable subscriber revenue and advertising revenue.