Broadcasting Distribution Regulations

32 (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section or under a condition of its licence, a licensee shall distribute in each licensed area as part of its basic service

• (a) the programming services of all local television stations;

• (b) the programming services of all regional television stations other than affiliates or members of a network of which a local television station is an affiliate or member; and

• (c) if not included in the programming services distributed under paragraphs (a) or (b), a programming service in each of English and French of at least one television station owned and operated by the Corporation, if the Corporation makes its signals for the service available to the licensee and pays the costs associated with the transport and reception of the signals at the licensee’s local head end.

(2) A licensee of a cable distribution undertaking shall distribute in each licensed area the programming services referred to in subsection (1) beginning with the basic band.

(3) If a licensee receives programming services that are identical, the licensee is required to distribute, under subsection (1), only one of them.

(4) If the programming services of two or more regional television stations that are affiliates or members of the same network are received at the local head end, the licensee is required to distribute only one of them.

(5) If a licensee receives over the air an educational television programming service the operation of which is the responsibility of an educational authority designated by a province other than the province in which the licensed area of the undertaking is located, the licensee is not required to distribute it under subsection (1) but may distribute it as part of the basic service.