OTTAWA – The CRTC has amended some of the requirements set out in the lists of eligible satellite services.
The amendments include the removal of the requirement that licensed BDUs receive certain services from licensed satellite relay distribution undertakings (SRDUs), the revision of requirements relating to the distribution of the U.S. 4+1 signals, and the deletion of the requirement that BDUs wishing to distribute certain services must enter into contractual agreements with those services.
The Commission also revised the requirement relating to the deletion or substitution of duplicate programming.
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In related news, the CRTC also revised the exemption order respecting terrestrial relay distribution network undertakings (TRDUs) in order to eliminate the requirements that undertakings operating under the order be local or regional, and that they be affiliated with the broadcasting distribution undertakings to which they transport programming services.
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