OTTAWA – The CRTC is seeking feedback on a new production report to be completed annually by the large English- and French-language ownership groups in place of the current programs of national interest (PNI) report.
The new report, which would only apply to licensed services, would include all Canadian programming expenditure categories, except news and sports programming.
The Commission said that it is considering expanding the key creative roles in the report to include ‘showrunner’, for example, and is also asking for input on draft templates that include Canadian programming expenditures by region and language, as well as programming produced by Indigenous and official language minority community producers.
All comments are due by February 6, 2019, and parties must provide rationale and evidence in support of their positions.
“Following the filing of comments, the Commission will perform an analysis of the information received as part of this notice of consultation”, continues the December 20 call for comments. “Subsequently, the Commission intends to publish an information bulletin containing details regarding the new filing requirements, including the templates in their final form."
