{"id":82759,"date":"2012-07-19T20:11:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T12:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/crtc-to-terminate-canadian-local-programming-fund-charges-by-september\/"},"modified":"2012-07-19T20:11:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T12:11:27","slug":"crtc-to-terminate-canadian-local-programming-fund-charges-by-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/crtc-to-terminate-canadian-local-programming-fund-charges-by-september\/","title":{"rendered":"CRTC to Terminate Canadian Local Programming Fund Charges by September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[07-19-12] The<b> Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) <\/b>will eliminate Local Programming Improvement Fund charges on Canadian satellite and cable customer bills by Aug. 31, the commission announced July 18.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;The CRTC created the Local Programming Improvement Fund in 2008 to improve the quality of local television stations outside of metropolitan markets and support smaller stations struggling to transition to digital television. The funds had been collected from larger cable and satellite companies\u2019 profits, which had been passing the fees on to consumers through an extra charge to their bills.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;In a statement, CRTC Vice Chairman of Telecommunications Leonard Katz said that 78 stations received $100 million in funds in 2011 and that 80 stations received $106 million in funding in 2010. \u201cThe Fund was created to ensure television stations had the resources to meet Canadians\u2019 needs for local programming,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are satisfied with the support it has provided during a difficult economic period.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[07-19-12] The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) will eliminate Local Programming Improvement Fund charges on Canadian satellite and cable customer bills by Aug. 31, the commission announced July 18. &nbsp; &nbsp;The CRTC created the Local Programming Improvement Fund in 2008 to improve the quality of local television stations outside of metropolitan markets and support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}