Television Broadcasting Regulations, 1987 — 2
2 In these Regulations, Act means the Broadcasting Act ; ( Loi ) advertising material means any commercial message and programming that promotes a station, network or program, but does not include (a) a station or network identification, (b) the announcement of an upcoming program that is voiced over credits, (c) a program that consists exclusively of classified announcements, if the program is broadcast not more than once during a broadcast day and has a duration of not more than one hour, or (d) a promotion for a Canadian program or a Canadian feature film, notwithstanding that a sponsor is identified in the title of the program or the film or is identified as a sponsor of that program or that film, where the identification is limited to the name of the sponsor only and does not include a description, representation or attribute of the sponsor’s products or services; ( matériel publicitaire ) affiliation agreement means an agreement between one or more stations and another party according to which programs provided by the other party will be broadcast by the stations at a predetermined time; ( contrat d’affiliation ) alcoholic beverage , in respect of a commercial message, means an alcoholic beverage the sale of which is regulated by the law of the province in which the commercial message is broadcast; ( boisson alcoolisée ) baseband means signals in the frequency range 0 to 120 kHz that are used as input to the sound transmitter of a station; ( bande de base ) broadcast day , in respect of a licensee, means the period of up to 18 consecutive hours, beginning each day not earlier than six o’clock in the morning and ending not later than one o’clock in the morning of the following day, as selected by the licensee; ( journée de radiodiffusion ) broadcast month , in respect of a licensee, means the total number of hours devoted by the licensee to broadcasting during the aggregate of the broadcast days in a month; ( mois de radiodiffusion ) broadcast year , in respect of a licensee, means the total number of hours devoted by the licensee to broadcasting during the aggregate of the broadcast months in a 12 month period, beginning on September 1 in any year; ( année de radiodiffusion ) Canadian program means a program (a) in respect of which a Canadian film or video production certificate , as defined in subsection 125.4(1) of the Income Tax Act , has been issued; or (b) that qualifies as a Canadian program in accordance with the criteria established by the Commission in (i) Appendices 1 and 2 to Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2023-90, dated 23 March 2023 and entitled Change to the treatment of stock footage costs as part of the evaluation of applications for Canadian program certification , or (ii) [Repealed, SOR/2023-216, s. 1] (iii) paragraphs 128 to 130 of Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2015-86 entitled Let’s Talk TV: The way forward – Creating compelling and diverse Canadian programming ; ( émission canadienne ) classified announcement means an advertisement respecting goods or services offered or sought by a person not engaged in the business of dealing in those goods or services; ( petites annonces ) clock hour means a period of 60 minutes beginning on each hour and ending immediately prior to the next hour; ( heure d’horloge ) commercial message means an advertisement intended to sell or promote goods, services, natural resources or activities, including an advertisement that mentions or displays in a list of prizes the name of the person selling or promoting the goods, services, natural resources or activities, and that is broadcast in a break within a program or between programs; ( message publicitaire ) election period means (a) in the case of a federal or provincial election or of a federal, provincial or municipal referendum, the period beginning on the date of the announcement of the election or referendum and ending on the date the election or referendum is held, or (b) in the case of a municipal election,