Specialty Services Regulations, 1990

2 In these Regulations,

Act

Act means the Broadcasting Act; (Loi)

advertising material

advertising material means any commercial message and programming that promotes a station, network or program, but does not include

• (a) a station or network identification,

• (b) the announcement of an upcoming program that is voiced over credits, or

• (c) 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 any attribute of the sponsor’s products or services; (matériel publicitaire)

alcoholic beverage

alcoholic beverage, in respect of a commercial message, means an alcoholic beverage the sale of which is regulated by the law of the province in which the licensee’s transmission of the commercial message originates; (boisson alcoolisée)

Canadian program

Canadian program means a program that qualifies as a Canadian program in accordance with the criteria established by the Commission in Appendices I and II to Public Notice CRTC 2000-42 dated March 17, 2000, entitled Certification for Canadian Programs — A Revised Approach and published in the Canada Gazette, Part I, on May 20, 2000; (émission canadienne)

commercial message

commercial message means an advertisement intended to sell or promote goods, services, natural resources or activities, and includes an advertisement that mentions or displays in a list of prizes the name of a person selling or promoting those goods, services, natural resources or activities; (message publicitaire)

election period

election period means

• (a) in the case of a federal or provincial election or of a federal, provincial or municipal referendum, the period beginning on the day the announcement of the election or referendum is made and ending on the day the election or referendum is held, or

• (b) in the case of a municipal election, the period beginning two months before the day the election is to be held and ending on the day the election is held; (période électorale)

exempt distribution undertaking

exempt distribution undertaking means a distribution undertaking whose operator is, by order of the Commission made under subsection 9(4) of the Act, exempt from any or all of the requirements of Part II of the Act; (entreprise de distribution exemptée)

key figure

key figure means a figure formed by a combination of alphanumeric characters set out in Column II of an item of Schedule I that corresponds to the description of the program set out in Column I of that item; (chiffre clé)

licensee

licensee means a person who is licensed by the Commission pursuant to paragraph 9(1)(b) of the Act to carry on a specialty programming undertaking or a specialty services network; (titulaire)

program

program means a broadcast presentation of sound and visual matter that is designed to inform or entertain and that falls into a category set out in Column I of item 6 of Schedule I; (émission)

program delivery agreement

program delivery agreement means an agreement between a licensee and another person according to which the licensee will distribute programs provided by the other person at a time set out in the agreement; (accord de distribution d’émissions)

programming

programming means anything that is broadcast, but does not include visual images, whether or not combined with sounds, that consist predominantly of alphanumeric text. (programmation)