Broadcasting Distribution Regulations (SOR/97-555)

• 21. (1) Except as otherwise provided in a condition of its licence, which condition takes effect on or after September 1, 2011, a licensee shall obtain the consent of the operator of a distant television station to distribute its signal before the licensee makes the signal available to its subscribers.

• (2) The licensee is not required to obtain the consent of the operator of the distant television station if the signal is required to be distributed as part of the licensee’s basic service under section 17 or under a condition of its licence.

22. Except as otherwise provided in a condition of its licence, which condition takes effect on or after September 1, 2011, a licensee shall not distribute a 4 + 1 package of programming services that originate outside the time zone in which the licensee’s local head end is located unless the licensee also distributes to its subscribers the programming services of at least one television station from each English major ownership group that originate in the same time zone.

• 23. (1) Except as otherwise provided under a condition of its licence, a licensee that distributes a Category A service in a licensed area as part of a package of programming services may also distribute the service in the licensed area on a stand-alone basis.

• (2) If the licensee is operating in a francophone market, it shall distribute, in that market in a single package of programming services, all the French-language Category A services that it does not otherwise distribute in that market under paragraph 17(1)(g), before it distributes any of those services in other packages of programming services or on a stand-alone basis.

24. Except as otherwise provided under a condition of its licence, a licensee shall not distribute an authorized non-Canadian programming service unless it distributes the service on a discretionary basis.

• 25. (1) Except as otherwise provided under a condition of its licence, a licensee shall not distribute Category B services or exempt third-language services that are adult programming services unless they are packaged in such a way that subscribers are not obligated to subscribe to any of those programming services in order to obtain any other programming service.

• (2) A licensee that distributes Category B services or exempt third-language services that are adult programming services shall fully block the reception of both the audio and video portions of those services to subscribers who request that they not receive the services in either unscrambled or scrambled mode.