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Radio Regulations, 1986

Version of section 7 from 2006-03-22 to 2008-08-31:

  •  (1) The licensee of an ethnic station shall devote not less than 60 per cent of its broadcast week to ethnic programs.

  • (2) Except as otherwise provided under a licensee’s condition of licence, an A.M. or F.M. licensee licensed to operate an ethnic station shall devote not less than 50% of a broadcast week to third language programs.

  • (3) Except as otherwise provided under a condition of licence to devote up to 40% of a broadcast week to third language programs, and subject to subsection (4), an A.M. or F.M. licensee licensed to operate a station other than an ethnic station shall devote not more than 15% of a broadcast week to third language programs.

  • (4) An A.M. or F.M. licensee licensed to operate a Type A community station, or a campus station broadcasting in a market where there is no ethnic station, may devote not more than 40% of a broadcast week to third language programs.

  • SOR/2000-235, s. 2

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