CLASSES OF UNDERTAKINGS COVERED BY EXISTING EXEMPTION ORDERS

Programming Undertakings:

Closed Circuit Video Programming Undertakings: provide programming services, whether for a separate fee or not, only to temporary residents of hotels, motels and hospitals or to the inmates of prisons, and not to residents of permanent dwelling places (Public Notice CRTC 1995-166).

Teleshopping Programming Service Undertakings: provide services offering for sale, goods and services that are frequently purchased by those who may require or otherwise appreciate assistance in accessing the types of goods and services offered (Public Notice CRTC 1995-14).

Video Games Programming Service Undertakings: provide subscribers of cable distribution undertakings with discretionary programming consisting of video games software and related information (Public Notice CRTC 1995-5).

Experimental Video-on-Demand (VOD) Programming Undertakings: facilitate limited, short-term experiments with various VOD technologies (Public Notice CRTC 1994-118).

Still Image Programming Service Undertakings: provide distribution undertakings with programming consisting of still images, with or without an audio component, and with or without a fee (Public Notice CRTC1993-51).

Carrier Current Undertakings: provide locally-originated programming services for the benefit of residents of such institutions as colleges and universities, and are only exempted when not distributed on cable systems (Public Notice CRTC 1993-47).

Ultra Low-Power Announcement Service (LPAS) Undertakings: enable those such as real estate agents, store owners and local authorities to broadcast public messages of an informative, sometimes commercial nature, regarding their activities by means of ultra low-power transmitters, e.g., "talking signs" (Public Notice CRTC 1993-46).

Low-Power Radio - Limited Duration Special Event Facilitating Undertakings: provide those attending special, generally recognized events with locally-originated informational programming related directly to these events (Public Notice CRTC 1993-45).

House of Commons and Provincial or Territorial Legislature Proceedings Undertakings: provide coverage of the proceedings of the House of Commons and provincial or territorial legislatures to distribution undertakings (Public Notice CRTC 1992-6).

Certain Short-wave Radio Broadcasting Undertakings: provide services that are intended only for reception outside Canada and that are receivable only outside Canada (Public Notice CRTC 1991-105).

Distribution Undertakings: Master Antenna Television (MATV) systems: (including Satellite Master Antenna Television (SMATV) systems): have, as their general purpose, the distribution to the temporary or permanent residents of multiple unit dwellings such as hotels, apartment buildings, condominiums and row houses, of services generally accessible by residents of single unit dwellings (Public Notice CRTC 1994-133).

Direct-to-Home (DTH) Satellite Distribution Undertakings: distribute television programming signals via satellite directly to individual satellite receivers, but may also serve individuals, indirectly, through distribution undertakings (Public Notice CRTC 1994-111).

NOTE: The CRTC has been directed in Orders-in-Council P.C. 1995-1105 and 1995-1106 that, following the conclusion of the licensing process currently underway, it should take all necessary and appropriate steps to ensure that no person is authorized to carry on a DTH distribution undertaking by any means other than a licence.

Terrestrial Relay Distribution Network Undertakings: receive the programming services of radio or television stations, foreign or domestic, and distribute those programming services, unaltered, to affiliated distribution undertakings, with or without a fee, on a local or regional basis (Public Notice CRTC 1993-53).

Low-Power Radio - Temporary Resource Development Distribution Undertakings: make available to employees of temporary mining, logging and other such temporary installations, rebroadcasts of Canadian radio stations, for the duration of the use of the installation (Public Notice CRTC 1993-44).

Resource Development Installation Undertakings: distribute the signals of all local Canadian television stations (Public Notice CRTC 1981-79).

Networks

Community Programming Network Undertakings: distribute portions of one licensee's community programming to the licensees of other distribution undertakings serving a common urban area (Public Notice CRTC 1993-52).

Cable Temporary Network Special Event Type 2 Undertakings: supply cable systems with coverage of not-for-profit or charitable events, such as the Special Olympics or telethons raising money for certain charities (Public Notice CRTC 1993-49).

Radio and Television Temporary Network Special Event Typeá1 Undertakings: supply radio and/or television stations licensed or exempted by the Commission with coverage of unexpected, non-recurring events, such as special concerts and commemorative programs, or of public emergencies such as natural disasters and major accidents (Public Notice CRTC 1993-48).

Partial Exemption

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, in respect of all of its AM and FM radio programming undertakings, is exempted from the application of subsection 14(1) of the Radio Regulations, 1986 (Public Notice CRTC1991-93).

DOC. #: AVI95-15