CCR Short Takes
Broadcast | August 17, 2004
CRTC approves more Category 2 digital specialty channels
The CRTC approved on August 3 a number of new Category 2 digital specialty channels, including TEN Broadcasting Inc.’s adult entertainment channels 10 Amateur (Broadcasting Decision 2004-310), 10 XXX Clips (Broadcasting Decision 2004-311), 10 Gay Adult (Broadcasting Decision 2004-312) and 10 XXX Canadian (Broadcasting Decision 2004-315) as well as Storm Entertainment Inc.’s Canadian Info Channel, which will be dedicated solely to the broadcast of information about government programs and services (Broadcasting Decision 2004-313), and Drive Publishing Inc.’s adult entertainment channel AOV Movie Channel (Broadcasting Decision 2004-314). The Category 1 PrideVision channel filed an intervention against 10 Gay Adult, saying that the Category 2 channel would be directly competitive with it. The Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. (CPAC) intervened against the Canadian Info Channel, opposing the new channel’s proposal to carry Category 3 material including coverage of political conventions, award dinners, political debates and fundraising programming. Storm agreed to a condition of licence limiting the type of material that could be drawn from Category 3. In the 10 Gay Adult case, the CRTC ruled, "Specifically, the commission is of the view that the proposal by TEN Broadcasting to limit its nature of service to focus primarily on gay adult programming would be sufficiently specific so as to ensure that it not provide direct competition to the more broadly-based programming service offered by PrideVision." On August 6, the CRTC approved another two Category 2 diginets, an ethnic Russian-language service to a numbered company (Broadcasting Decision 2004-318) and a Korean-language station KTV – Korean Television (Broadcasting Decision 2004-317). The regulator denied Category 2 licences to Mark Campbell for a national English-language channel known as Art and Design Television (Broadcasting Decision 2004-319) and an eastern-themed channel called The Maritime Channel (Broadcasting Decision 2004-321), and to Montesano Corp. for a service devoted to mysteries and unexplained phenomenon of nature, science and spirituality known as Phenomenon TV (Broadcasting Decision 2004-320).
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