Translation of "grille de programmes " (French → English) :

(16a) An audiovisual media service consists of programmes, a programme being a discrete succession of moving images with or without sound which are subject to editorial responsibility and are disseminated by a media service provider in accordance with a fixed programme schedule or are compiled in a catalogue.

(c) 'linear service' or 'television broadcast' means the transmission by any means, in unencoded or encoded form and in chronological sequence, of various programmes which are transmitted simultaneously to an indeterminate number of potential viewers, at a point in time decided upon by the media service provider, according to a fixed programming schedule;

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Impératif français is asking the Government of Canada to adopt those laws, regulations and policies necessary for Canadians to have priority access to Canadian public and private television stations, so that Canadians living in that part of Canada outside Quebec may have analog access to the greatest possible number of French-language Canadian television public and private stations; so that in Canada's capital, Ottawa, the capital of both official languages, Canadian citizens have priority analog access to Canadian television station signals; so that the policy and regulations of the CRTC concerning the granting of licences to re-broadcasters not have the effect of depriving Canadians of higher Canadian content television stations and inc ...[+++]rease the disparity between services available in French and in English; so that Canadian cable distributors reserve the best basic digital signals on the analog band to those Canadian television stations with the highest Canadian content in their programming during prime time; so that the Canadian government and the television and cable distribution industries put more resources into producing and broadcasting Canadian programs and consequently make sure that adequate funding be available—I think that with the proliferation of new television stations, we are sentenced to excellence and we'll have to do even better; so that Canadians have greater access to a greater number of Canadian programs produced and broadcast by Canadian television stations; so that viewers and listeners have access to more local, regional and community television and radio production; so that all regulations on broadcasting discriminating in favour of anglophone markets and foreign anglophone stations to the detriment of French-language Canadian stations be eliminated whether the grid is digital or analog (1110) I'd also like to suggest a few amendments to the Broadcasting Act.

There is also a need for European programme producers to upgrade their production techniques in order to future-proof their programme catalogues and prepare for the era of advanced television.

A particular strength of HMG as compared with its competitors is that it is able to cover the most important target groups for advertisers by coordinating the programme scheduling of its three channels. By contrast, given the complex structure of the Dutch public broadcasting system, it is more difficult for the three public channels to act in the same way.