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Preliminary Position Paper on the TV Consultation Submission Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2014‐190 Appendices 25 June 2014 Page 1 Volume 2 – Appendices Appendix 2 CRTC's announcement of additional evidence for BNoC 2014‐190 3 Appendix 3 Private and public benefits from transfers of broadcast ownership, 1983‐2013 4 Appendix 4 Services available from BDUs in Ottawa (June 2014) 5 Appendix 5 Hours of Canadian drama by three over‐the‐air television stations, 1999‐2011 7 Appendix 6 Percent of hours spent with Canadian programming, by type of television service, 2000‐2012 9 Appendix 7 Revenues and ownership in Canadian television, 2013 10 Appendix 8 CRTC data about basic BDU rates 11 Appendix 9 Canadians' views on whether cable and satellite fees are too low, about right or too high (June 2014) 12 Appendix 10 Inadequate information for the public 13 Appendix 11 CRTC’s regulation of accessibility 14 Appendix 12 CRTC’s regulation of portrayal 23 Appendix 13 Impact of rate deregulation on basic cable rates 25 Appendix 14 Canadian and foreign programs broadcast by CIII‐TV Toronto in October 1999 and October 2013 26 Appendix 15: Canadian television regulation in 1973 and 2014 27 Appendix 16 BDUs’ share of revenues and Canadian programming expenditures 31 Appendix 17: Role of programming in section 3 objectives 33 Appendix 18 Comparison of the proposals made by BNoC 2014‐190 and the Forum 35 Appendix 19: Obtaining information about BDUs’ basic package – two examples 36 Appendix 20: Broadcasting Accessibility Fund (as of June 24, 2014) 43 Appendix 21: FRPC contribution proposal – impact on BDUs 44 Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2014‐190 Appendices 25 June 2014 Page 3 Appendix 1 CRTC's announcement of additional evidence for BNoC 2014‐190 Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2014‐190 Appendices 25 June 2014 Page 4 Appendix 2 Private and public benefits from transfers of broadcast ownership, 1983‐2013 Year Count Benefits to private Tangible System's tangible broadcast owners benefits benefits as % of (transaction value) to system total benefits 1983 1984 1985 4 $175.1 1986 7 $158.1 1987 19 $223.1 1988 22 $191.5 1989 30 $995.4 1990 16 $200.6 1991 1 $140.0 $3.7 2.6% 1992 1 $45.0 1993 1994 1 $933.5 $94.4 10.1% 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 6 $4,875.6 $423.4 8.7% 2001 9 $2,130.6 $81.2 3.8% 2002 5 $527.9 $24.2 4.6% 2003 3 $6.7 $0.0 0.0% 2004 5 $286.6 $6.5 2.3% 2005 5 $40.9 $3.1 7.5% 2006 4 $753.0 $4.1 0.5% 2007 11 $6,882.7 $433.2 6.3% 2008 11 $376.0 $41.6 11.1% 2009 9 $321.3 $5.0 1.5% 2010 7 $180.6 $215.0 119.1% 2011 5 $2,723.9 $242.0 8.9% 2012 9 $166.7 $18.5 11.1% 2013 2 $4,326.2 $264.4 6.1% Grand Total $26,661.1 $1,860.0 7.0% Source: CRTC licensing decisions Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2014‐190 Appendices 25 June 2014 Page 5 Appendix 3 Services available from BDUs in Ottawa (June 2014) The Forum asked Rogers to provide a written list of the services it provides as part of its basic cable package; it was unable to do so (see Appendix 18). The services available from Bell’s FIBE TV in Ottawa as of June 2014, for $64.90 are: Good TV package Canadian TV services anadian Radio Foreign services OTA television Discretionary television CBC & CBC HD Accessible Media Inc Audio 102.1 The Edge ABC & ABC HD Accessible Media Inc TV 104.5 CHUM FM CBS & CBS HD CFTV Leamington APTN & APTN HD 680 News FOX & FOX HD Canal M, Ia radio CHCH & CHCH HD Aquarium HD de Vues & Voix NBC & NBC HD CBC News Network & CBC CHEK News Network HD CBC Radio One PBS & PBS HD CMT ‐ Country Music CHET‐TV Chetwynd Television CBC Radio Two WBUR 90.9 (NPR) CFRB Newstalk CHEX & CHEX HD CP24 & CP24 HD 1010 CPAC ‐ Cable Public Affairs CityTV & CityTV HD Channel CJAD AM CTV News Channel & CTV CJPX Radio ‐ FM CTS & CTS HD News Channel HD 99.5 Montréal E! Entertainment Television & CJRT FM E! Entertainment Television (JAZZ.FM91 CTV & CTV HD HD Toronto CJRT) CTV Two & CTV Two HD Fireplace HD CKAC AM Classical 96FM Global & Global HD Game TV Toronto Hay River TV (CIHC‐TV) Hay River MTV & MTV HD Country FM 105 Joy TV MuchMusic & MuchMusic HD KUOW 94.9 L'Assemblée nationale du Power FM 97.5 ‐ Québec MétéoMédia Winnipeg Première Chaine NAC TV Neepawa RDI & RDI HD Montreal (CBF‐FM) Première Chaîne FM 97.7 Vancouver NTV Russia Today (CBUF‐FM) Sun News Network & Sun OMNI1 & OMNI1 HD News Network HD Q107 ‐ Classic Rock OMNI2 & OMNI2 HD The Knowledge Network Radio X Montreal Radio‐Canada Télévision (SRC) & Radio‐Canada The Weather Network & The Sportsnet 590 The Télévision (SRC) HD Weather Network HD Fan Good TV package Canadian TV services anadian Radio Foreign services OTA television Discretionary television Telile TV (CIMC‐TV) Arichat Treehouse VOAR 1210 TFO & TFO HD TSN & TSN HD TSN Radio The Shopping Channel TSN Jets & TSN Jets HD WRN FM TSN Montreal & TSN Montreal TVA & TVA HD HD OZ FM TVO & TVO HD Vision TV RFI Radio V & V HD W Network & W Network HD VCTV (CHVC‐TV) YTV & YTV HD WAHSA CBC HNIC Punjabi Total: 27 (5 local) 28 23 6 Source: online chat with Bell TV representative (June 2014) Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2014‐190 Appendices 25 June 2014 Page 7 Appendix 4 Hours of Canadian drama by three over‐the‐air television stations, 1999‐2011 Hours of Canadian drama broadcast from 7 pm ‐ 11 pm: 1999‐2011 CFTM‐TV (TVA) CIII‐TV (Global) CFTO‐TV (CTV) 279 248 308 238 211 274 247 328 352 299 278 341 253 270 287 321 311 299 261 245 207 200 161 147 163 184 292 264 271 248 255 207 196 189 183 204 168 194 186 3 4 0 1 /00 /01 /02 /08 /09 7 8 99 00 01 02/0 03/0 04/05 0 0 09/1 10/1 1998/99 19 20 20 20 20 20 2005/06 2006/07 20 20 20 20 Source: CRTC Broadcast Policy and Communications Monitoring Reports Hours of Canadian drama broadcast from 7 pm to 11 pm CFTO‐TV CIII‐TV CFTM‐TV As % of Broadcast years (CTV) (Global) (TVA) Total 7pm ‐ 11pm 1998/99 292 287 279 858 19.6% 1999/00 264 321 238 823 18.8% 2000/01 271 341 248 860 19.7% 2001/02 248 311 211 770 17.6% 2002/03 255 299 308 862 19.7% 2003/04 207 261 274 742 17.0% 2004/05 196 245 247 688 15.8% 2005/06 189 161 253 603 13.8% 2006/07 183 147 270 600 13.7% 2007/08 204 207 328 739 16.9% 2008/09 168 163 299 630 14.4% 2009/10 194 200 352 746 17.1% 2010/11 186 184 278 648 14.8% Change ‐ % ‐36% ‐36% 0% ‐24% ‐4.6 Change ‐ total hrs ‐106 ‐103 ‐1 ‐210 Average hours of drama per week, by station CFTO‐TV CIII‐TV CFTM‐TV (CTV) (Global) (TVA) Total 1998/99 5.62 5.52 5.37 16.50 1999/00 5.08 6.17 4.58 15.83 2000/01 5.21 6.56 4.77 16.54 2001/02 4.77 5.98 4.06 14.81 2002/03 4.90 5.75 5.92 16.58 2003/04 3.98 5.02 5.27 14.27 2004/05 3.77 4.71 4.75 13.23 2005/06 3.63 3.10 4.87 11.60 2006/07 3.52 2.83 5.19 11.54 2007/08 3.92 3.98 6.31 14.21 2008/09 3.23 3.13 5.75 12.12 2009/10 3.73 3.85 6.77 14.35 2010/11 3.58 3.54 5.35 12.46 Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2014‐190 Appendices 25 June 2014 Page 9 Appendix 5 Percent of hours spent with Canadian programming, by type of television service, 2000‐2012 Private OTA Pay specialty % of tuning that is English stations French stations English services French services Canadian (excl'g Quebec) (Quebec (excl'g Quebec) (Quebec francophones) francophones) 1999/00 39.0% 75.0% 45.0% 50.0% 2000/01 37.0% 80.0% 42.0% 51.0% 2002/03 36.0% 77.0% 44.0% 56.0% 2003/04 34.0% 69.0% 46.0% 55.0% 2004/05 32.2% 69.0% 58.9% 49.0% 2005/06 32.4% 71.0% 58.9% 53.0% 2006/07 33.0% 70.7% 45.0% 52.0% 2007/08 34.6% 71.4% 43.1% 47.5% 2008/09 37.3% 69.2% 39.5% 60.0% 2009/10 38.9% 69.9% 41.2% 54.2% 2010/11 34.5% 68.1% 41.1% 53.5% 2011/12 38.5% 69.3% 42.6% 52.2% Chang e ‐0.5 ‐5.7 ‐2.4 +2.2 Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2014‐190 Appendices 25 June 2014 Page 10 Appendix 6 Revenues and ownership in Canadian television, 2013 Table 1: Concentration of revenues in Canada's private television sector, 2013 2013 Revenues Local TV National TV Distribution Total % of total $ millions All services (cable/DTH/MDS) Shaw/Corus $418 $950 $3,837 $5,205 25.8% Rogers $273 $434 $3,421 $4,128 20.5% BCE $776 $1,480 $2,118 $4,374 21.7% Quebecor $249 $92 $2,668 $3,009 14.9% 4 largest $1,716 $2,956 $12,045 $16,717 82.8% companies Total (excl’g CBC $1,944 $3,413 $14,822 $20,179 100.0% conventional) Top 4, % of Canada 88.3% 86.6% 81.3% 82.8% Table 2: % of subscribers and employment controlled by four largest companies in 2013 Television system in 2013 BDU subscribers Employees Shaw/Corus 2.94 million 12,364 Rogers 2.16 million 5,589 BCE 2.37 million 5,078 Quebecor 1.69 million 7,375 4 largest 9.16 million 30,406 companies Canada total 11.51 million 43,890 (excl’g CBC) Top 4, % of 79.6% 69.3% Canada Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2014‐190 Appendices 25 June 2014 Page 11 Appendix 7 CRTC data about basic BDU rates Broadcasting Notice of Consultation 2014‐190 Appendices 25 June 2014 Page 12 Appendix 8 Canadians' views on whether cable and satellite fees are too low, about right or too high (June 2014) Response to Question 8: Among people who know how much they pay for TV and in households were no one works for a television company, “Are the fee that people pay to receive TV channels by cable or satellite too high, about right or too low in Canada?” Demographic breakdown Much too Somewhat Total – much or high too high somewhat too high By gender Women 71% 22% 93% Men 69% 22% 91% By age Under 35 65% 21% 86% 35 to 44 71% 24% 95% 44 to 54 76% 20% 96% 55 to 64 75% 20% 95% Over 64 63% 27% 90% By income Less than $20K 73% 21% 94% $20K ‐ $40K 75% 19% 94% $40K ‐ $60K 73% 24% 97% $60K ‐ $80K 70% 24% 94% $80K ‐ $100K 74% 22% 96% $100K ‐ $250K 64% 25% 89% By education Secondary school or less 77% 17% 94% Some college/university 72% 22% 94% Completed college/university 72% 23% 95% Post‐graduate studies 57% 27% 84% By region Atlantic
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