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Discretionary service

April 15, 2024

A discretionary service is a Canadian specialty channel which, as defined by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, may be carried optionally by all subscription television providers. It replaces the previous category A, category B, category C (instead split into the categories of "mainstream sports" and "national news"), and premium classifications.[1][2][3]

Discretionary services may air programming from any of the CRTC's defined categories, although no more than 10% of programming per month may be devoted to live professional sports. Discretionary services may be authorized to offer multiplex channels.[4]

Background edit

Prior classifications and genre exclusivity edit

The CRTC previously licensed specialty television services into one of three categories, which determined their regulatory obligations (such as the types of programming they may offer, and whether they are allowed to compete with other specialty television services), and how they may be distributed by television providers—known legally as broadcast distribution undertakings (BDUs).

  • Category A services: a category established in 2011 that encompassed the legacy "analog" specialty and premium television channels licensed prior to the establishment of digital cable and satellite (such as MuchMusic),[5] and "Category 1" digital specialty services. Digital BDUs were required to offer all Category A-licensed channels as part of their services. Category A services were licensed within specific scopes, and subject to "genre protection": no other specialty services were allowed to directly compete with a Category A service. As a consequence, Category A licenses carried more stringent obligations on their owners, such as stricter thresholds for the exhibition of specific types of programming and Canadian content.[6][7][8]
  • Category B services (formerly "Category 2"): digital specialty services that were licensed to carry narrower, niche formats in comparison to Category A-licensed channels. BDUs were not obligated to offer all Category B services, and negotiated with their distributors for carriage. Category B services were allowed to compete between each other, but no Category B service was allowed to directly compete with a Category A service.[6][7][8]
  • Category C services encompassed "competitive Canadian specialty services operating in the genres of mainstream sports and national news", which had been given an exemption from the genre protection rules in 2009 that allowed them more flexibility in programming and formats.[9][10][11]

Reforms and discontinuation of genre exclusivity rules edit

As part of "Let's Talk TV", a CRTC initiative to reform Canada's broadcasting industry, the Commission announced in 2015 that it would phase out its previous "genre protection" rules, which forbade services with Category B licenses from directly competing with those with Category A licenses. The Commission felt that these restrictions were "no longer needed to ensure programming diversity between services", as "[they] limited programming services to offering certain types of programming and precluded other services from offering that programming." As part of these changes, the CRTC began transitioning all pay and specialty services to standardized conditions of license.[7][8][4][12]

In November 2016, per a request by DHX Media, the previous premium television designation (which was designed for pay television services such as The Movie Network, and restricted the carriage of commercial advertising, but allowed them to offer multiple feeds consistent with their scope of service) was also removed, merging them into the discretionary services category and allowing them to, if they choose, transition to advertising-supported formats.[4] The standard conditions of license were thus amended to allow discretionary services to offer multiplex channels if approved as a condition of license.[4]

List of licensed discretionary services edit

Former Category A services edit

Category A services were those which had mandatory distribution by all licensed broadcast distribution undertakings. They consisted of the channels that were licensed before the emergence of digital cable, as well as the narrow tier of digital services which were originally licensed as "Category 1" (must-carry) when digital cable was first introduced.

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French edit

Third-language edit

Former Category B services edit

Category B services were those which had only optional, rather than mandatory, carriage rights on BDUs, and did not have format protection.

English edit

French edit

Third-language edit

National news and sports discretionary services edit

English edit

News edit
Sports edit
  • Sportsnet
    • Sportsnet East
    • Sportsnet Ontario
    • Sportsnet Pacific
    • Sportsnet West
  • Sportsnet One
    • Sportsnet Flames
    • Sportsnet Oilers
    • Sportsnet Vancouver Hockey
  • TSN
    • TSN1
    • TSN2
    • TSN3
    • TSN4
    • TSN5

French edit

News edit
Sports edit

Former exempted services edit

Former premium services edit

Exempted discretionary services edit

Services with less than 200,000 subscribers that would otherwise meet the definition of a discretionary service, and services which air 90% of their programming in a "third language (a language other than English, French, or those of Canadian aboriginal peoples), are exempted from formal licensing by the CRTC. They must still comply with standard conditions of license published by the CRTC, maintain a file with the Commission, and, if this is the basis of their exemption, pursue an application for licensing if they exceed 200,000 subscribers.[13][14]

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Third-language edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Let's Talk TV - the way forward - Creating compelling and diverse Canadian programming". 12 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Types of TV broadcasters". 4 October 2007.
  3. ^ "Radio, TV and Cable Broadcasting Services that do and do not need a licence". 3 September 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d "Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2016-436". Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. 2 November 2016.
  5. ^ . Mediacaster Magazine. February 1, 2002. Archived from the original on March 26, 2012. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
  6. ^ a b Government of Canada, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) (2008-10-30). "Regulatory policy - Regulatory frameworks for broadcasting distribution undertakings (BDUs) and discretionary programming services". crtc.gc.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  7. ^ a b c "Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2015-86: Let's Talk TV - The way forward - Creating compelling and diverse Canadian programming". CRTC. 12 March 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  8. ^ a b c "Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2015-96 - Let's Talk TV - A World of Choice - A roadmap to maximize choice for TV viewers and to foster a healthy, dynamic TV market". CRTC. 19 March 2015.
  9. ^ "Conditions of licence for competitive Canadian specialty services operating in the genres of mainstream sports and national news". crtc.gc.ca. CRTC. 2012-05-25. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
  10. ^ "ARCHIVED - Conditions of licence for competitive Canadian specialty services operating in the genres of mainstream sports and national news". 4 September 2009.
  11. ^ "ARCHIVED - Call for comments on amendments to the Broadcasting Distribution Regulations". 10 December 2010.
  12. ^ Maloney, Val. "CRTC to allow ads on pay-TV channels". Kidscreen. Brunico Communications. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  13. ^ "Broadcasting Order CRTC 2012-689: New exemption order respecting certain programming undertakings that would otherwise be eligible to be operated as Category B services, and amendments to the Exemption order respecting certain third-language television undertakings". CRTC. 19 December 2012. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  14. ^ "Exemption order respecting discretionary television programming undertakings serving fewer than 200,000 subscribers". Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. 12 March 2015. Retrieved 2018-01-23.

See also edit

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A discretionary service is a Canadian specialty channel which as defined by the Canadian Radio television and Telecommunications Commission may be carried optionally by all subscription television providers It replaces the previous category A category B category C instead split into the categories of mainstream sports and national news and premium classifications 1 2 3 Discretionary services may air programming from any of the CRTC s defined categories although no more than 10 of programming per month may be devoted to live professional sports Discretionary services may be authorized to offer multiplex channels 4 Contents 1 Background 1 1 Prior classifications and genre exclusivity 1 2 Reforms and discontinuation of genre exclusivity rules 2 List of licensed discretionary services 2 1 Former Category A services 2 1 1 English 2 1 2 French 2 1 3 Third language 2 2 Former Category B services 2 2 1 English 2 2 2 French 2 2 3 Third language 2 3 National news and sports discretionary services 2 3 1 English 2 3 1 1 News 2 3 1 2 Sports 2 3 2 French 2 3 2 1 News 2 3 2 2 Sports 2 4 Former exempted services 2 5 Former premium services 3 Exempted discretionary services 3 1 English 3 2 Third language 4 References 5 See alsoBackground editPrior classifications and genre exclusivity edit The CRTC previously licensed specialty television services into one of three categories which determined their regulatory obligations such as the types of programming they may offer and whether they are allowed to compete with other specialty television services and how they may be distributed by television providers known legally as broadcast distribution undertakings BDUs Category A services a category established in 2011 that encompassed the legacy analog specialty and premium television channels licensed prior to the establishment of digital cable and satellite such as MuchMusic 5 and Category 1 digital specialty services Digital BDUs were required to offer all Category A licensed channels as part of their services Category A services were licensed within specific scopes and subject to genre protection no other specialty services were allowed to directly compete with a Category A service As a consequence Category A licenses carried more stringent obligations on their owners such as stricter thresholds for the exhibition of specific types of programming and Canadian content 6 7 8 Category B services formerly Category 2 digital specialty services that were licensed to carry narrower niche formats in comparison to Category A licensed channels BDUs were not obligated to offer all Category B services and negotiated with their distributors for carriage Category B services were allowed to compete between each other but no Category B service was allowed to directly compete with a Category A service 6 7 8 Category C services encompassed competitive Canadian specialty services operating in the genres of mainstream sports and national news which had been given an exemption from the genre protection rules in 2009 that allowed them more flexibility in programming and formats 9 10 11 Reforms and discontinuation of genre exclusivity rules edit As part of Let s Talk TV a CRTC initiative to reform Canada s broadcasting industry the Commission announced in 2015 that it would phase out its previous genre protection rules which forbade services with Category B licenses from directly competing with those with Category A licenses The Commission felt that these restrictions were no longer needed to ensure programming diversity between services as they limited programming services to offering certain types of programming and precluded other services from offering that programming As part of these changes the CRTC began transitioning all pay and specialty services to standardized conditions of license 7 8 4 12 In November 2016 per a request by DHX Media the previous premium television designation which was designed for pay television services such as The Movie Network and restricted the carriage of commercial advertising but allowed them to offer multiple feeds consistent with their scope of service was also removed merging them into the discretionary services category and allowing them to if they choose transition to advertising supported formats 4 The standard conditions of license were thus amended to allow discretionary services to offer multiplex channels if approved as a condition of license 4 List of licensed discretionary services editFormer Category A services edit Category A services were those which had mandatory distribution by all licensed broadcast distribution undertakings They consisted of the channels that were licensed before the emergence of digital cable as well as the narrow tier of digital services which were originally licensed as Category 1 must carry when digital cable was first introduced English edit AMI tv BNN Cartoon Network CMT Cottage Life CP24 GTA Crime Investigation CPAC English feed CTV Comedy Channel CTV Drama Channel CTV Life Channel CTV Sci Fi Channel Discovery Documentary Channel DTour E Food Network Canada HGTV Canada The History Channel History2 MTV Much OLN One OWN Canada OutTV Showcase Slice Sportsnet 360 The Weather Network T E Treehouse VisionTV W Network YTV French edit addikTV Canal D Canal Vie CPAC French feed Elle Fictions Evasion Historia Ici ARTV Max MeteoMedia RDS Info Series Teletoon TV5 Unis ZThird language edit ATN Channel Fairchild TV Odyssey Talentvision TelelatinoFormer Category B services edit Category B services were those which had only optional rather than mandatory carriage rights on BDUs and did not have format protection English edit ABC Spark Adult Swim Animal Planet ATN Cricket Plus ATN DD Sports BBC Earth BBC First Boomerang Cooking Channel CBN Daystar Television Canada DejaView Discovery Science Discovery Velocity EuroWorld Sport Fight Network FNTSY Sports Network FX FXX GameTV Global News BC 1 Hollywood Suite Hollywood Suite 70s Movies Hollywood Suite 80s Movies Hollywood Suite 90s Movies Hollywood Suite 00s Movies HPItv HPItv Canada HPItv International HPItv Odds HPItv West Investigation Discovery Lifetime Love Nature Magnolia Network Makeful MovieTime Nat Geo Wild National Geographic NBA TV Canada Nickelodeon Penthouse TV Playmen TV Red Hot TV Rewind Salt Light Television Silver Screen Classics Smithsonian Channel Sportsnet World Stingray Naturescape The Rural Channel Wild TV WildBrainTV World Fishing Network French edit Avis de Recherche Casa Frissons TV Ici Explora Investigation Prise 2 QUB Formerly Yoopa Telemagino Temoin Vivid TV Canada ZesteThird language edit Aaj Tak All TV ATN Food Food ATN SAB TV ATN Sony TV ATN Times Now ATN Zoom Fairchild TV 2 HD FPTV Filmy Mediaset Italia Mediaset TGCOM 24 MEGA Cosmos New Tang Dynasty Television SSTV Telebimbi TeleNinos Travelxp Univision Canada ZEE Bollywood Zee Cinema Zee TV Canada ZingNational news and sports discretionary services edit English edit News edit CBC News Network CTV News Channel The News ForumSports edit Sportsnet Sportsnet East Sportsnet Ontario Sportsnet Pacific Sportsnet West Sportsnet One Sportsnet Flames Sportsnet Oilers Sportsnet Vancouver Hockey TSN TSN1 TSN2 TSN3 TSN4 TSN5French edit News edit Ici RDI LCNSports edit RDS RDS2 TVA Sports TVA Sports 2Former exempted services edit Disney Channel Disney Junior Disney XD Stingray Hits Former premium services edit Crave Four multiplex channels HBO Canada East and west Family Two multiplex channels now mostly former analogue cable services Family Jr Super Channel Four multiplex channels Super Channel Fuse Super Channel Heart amp Home Super Channel Vault Ginx TV Canada Super Ecran Four Multiplex Channels Starz Two multiplex channels Exempted discretionary services editServices with less than 200 000 subscribers that would otherwise meet the definition of a discretionary service and services which air 90 of their programming in a third language a language other than English French or those of Canadian aboriginal peoples are exempted from formal licensing by the CRTC They must still comply with standard conditions of license published by the CRTC maintain a file with the Commission and if this is the basis of their exemption pursue an application for licensing if they exceed 200 000 subscribers 13 14 English edit AOV Adult Movie Channel beIN Sports Canada The Cult Movie Network Exxxtasy TV FEVA TV Maleflixxx Television MAVTV Canada Stingray Country Stingray Juicebox Stingray Loud Stingray Retro Stingray Now 4K Stingray Vibe Toon A Vision Vertical TV Vintage TV XXX Action Clips ChannelThird language edit Abu Dhabi TV Al Nahar TV Al Nahar Drama Al Resalah All TV K ATN Aastha TV ATN Alpha ETC Punjabi ATN ARY Digital ATN B4U Movies ATN B4U Music ATN Bangla ATN Brit Asia TV ATN Colors Bangla ATN Colors Marathi ATN DD Bharati ATN DD Urdu ATN Gujarati ATN IBC Tamil ATN Jaya TV ATN Movies ATN MTV India ATN News 18 ATN PM One ATN Punjabi 5 ATN Punjabi News ATN Punjabi Plus ATN Rishtey ATN Sikh Channel ATN Sony Aath ATN Sony Max ATN Sony Mix ATN Star Jalsha ATN SVBC ATN Tamil Plus ATN Urdu BBC Arabic Big Magic International Canada Chinese TV Canada National TV CCCTV Chakde TV Channel 9 Canada Channel Punjabi Channel Y CTC International Detskiy Dream 2 ERT World Fairchild TV 2 FTV First National Greek Music Channel Halla Bol HRT Sat Hum TV Iran TV Network KHL TV LS Times TV Melody Aflam Melody Drama Melody Hits Momo Kids Montreal Greek TV NGTV Nova World OSN Ya Hala International Prime Asia TV ProSiebenSat 1 Welt PTC Punjabi Rawal TV RBTI Canada Rotana Aflam Rotana Cinema Rotana Classic Rotana Clip Rotana Khalijiah Rotana Masriya Rotana Mousica RTL Living RTS Sat RTVi Russian Illuzion SBTN Schlager TV TET Tamil One Tamil Vision The Israeli Network Toronto 360 TV TVCentr International TVP Info TV Rain Vanakkam TV Win HD Caribbean WOWtv Zee 24 Taas Zee Bangla Zee Marathi Zee Punjabi Zee Salaam Zee Talkies Zee TamilReferences edit Let s Talk TV the way forward Creating compelling and diverse Canadian programming 12 March 2015 Types of TV broadcasters 4 October 2007 Radio TV and Cable Broadcasting Services that do and do not need a licence 3 September 2019 a b c d Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2016 436 Canadian Radio television and Telecommunications Commission 2 November 2016 Chum complaint an exercise in turf protection Mediacaster Magazine February 1 2002 Archived from the original on March 26 2012 Retrieved March 9 2019 a b Government of Canada Canadian Radio television and Telecommunications Commission CRTC 2008 10 30 Regulatory policy Regulatory frameworks for broadcasting distribution undertakings BDUs and discretionary programming services crtc gc ca Retrieved 2021 05 05 a b c Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2015 86 Let s Talk TV The way forward Creating compelling and diverse Canadian programming CRTC 12 March 2015 Retrieved 28 July 2015 a b c Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2015 96 Let s Talk TV A World of Choice A roadmap to maximize choice for TV viewers and to foster a healthy dynamic TV market CRTC 19 March 2015 Conditions of licence for competitive Canadian specialty services operating in the genres of mainstream sports and national news crtc gc ca CRTC 2012 05 25 Retrieved 2019 09 27 ARCHIVED Conditions of licence for competitive Canadian specialty services operating in the genres of mainstream sports and national news 4 September 2009 ARCHIVED Call for comments on amendments to the Broadcasting Distribution Regulations 10 December 2010 Maloney Val CRTC to allow ads on pay TV channels Kidscreen Brunico Communications Retrieved 3 November 2016 Broadcasting Order CRTC 2012 689 New exemption order respecting certain programming undertakings that would otherwise be eligible to be operated as Category B services and amendments to the Exemption order respecting certain third language television undertakings CRTC 19 December 2012 Retrieved 23 January 2013 Exemption order respecting discretionary television programming undertakings serving fewer than 200 000 subscribers Canadian Radio television and Telecommunications Commission 12 March 2015 Retrieved 2018 01 23 See also editList of television stations in Canada by call sign List of Canadian television networks List of Canadian television channels List of Canadian specialty channels List of foreign television channels available in Canada List of United States television stations available in Canada Digital television in Canada Multichannel television in Canada Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Discretionary service amp oldid 1218595796, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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