186:, are also required to be carried in the basic package of all television providers nationwide. Local service providers are also required to offer any local television stations with over-the-air coverage in their service area, as well as the designated provincial education channel(s) and/or legislature channel, if applicable. However, these requirements are codified in the CRTC's Broadcast Distribution Regulations, and are not subject to an explicit mandatory-carriage order. Specialty channels owned by the CBC are not subject to mandatory carriage under the Broadcast Distribution Regulations, but may be subject to 9.1 (1)(
171:), the CRTC stated that it only approves mandatory carriage for channels which "make exceptional contributions to meeting the objectives of the Act. These objectives notably include reflecting the ethno-cultural and linguistic diversity of Canada, including the special place of Aboriginal peoples in Canadian society and the needs of official language minority communities; allowing Canadians living with disabilities to participate more fully in the Canadian broadcasting system; and supporting Canada’s democratic life and institutions and its regions, including the North."
80:, or similar subscription-based television service providers in Canada. In most (but not all) cases, the order requires that the channel be included in the analogue and/or digital basic service, making it available to all subscribers of that TV service provider. A channel subject to such an order, particularly those subject to mandatory carriage on the basic service, was sometimes known as an
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Canadian television service providers to make specified television channels available to their subscribers, sometimes subject to various conditions (such as region or packaging). Most of these orders relate to channels that must be carried on analogue and/or digital basic
578:– Like other national news channels, it was subject to the same mandatory distribution order as the other national news channels (inclusion in "the best available discretionary package consistent with their genre and programming") from March 2014 until the channel's shutdown on February 13, 2015.
481:. In markets where a local Omni station or affiliate broadcasts identical programming to the applicable Omni Regional feed, the CRTC has allowed providers (upon request) an exception to the local station carriage rules, such that the provider is only required to carry the Omni Regional feed.
463:
These orders are intended to ensure that official-language minority communities have access to news in their language. In the corresponding majority-language markets, these channels are not required to be carried on digital basic, but are subject to mandatory distribution (see
155:) a requirement for a person carrying on a distribution undertaking to carry, on the terms and conditions that the Commission considers appropriate, programming services, specified by the Commission, that are provided by a broadcasting undertaking;
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572:– The channel was granted mandatory distribution within Quebec in 2007, confirmed in a separate decision in 2008. A renewal of the 9(1)(h) order was denied in 2013; Avis de Recherche continues to operate as a discretionary service.
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1172:"ARCHIVED - New digital specialty described video programming undertaking; Licence amendments; Issuance of various mandatory distribution orders"
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