Friday, February 18, 2011

Equitable Portrayal is Required on CJSF's Airwaves

The following information was posted to members of the National Campus and Community Radio Association, by board member (and lawyer) Freya Zaltz:

Campus radio stations are bound by the CAB's Equitable Portrayal Code as a condition of licence, pursuant to this CRTC decision:

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2009/2009-63.htm

Community radio stations that originate 42 hours or more of programming in any broadcast week are also bound by the Equitable Portrayal Code as a condition of licence, pursuant to this CRTC decision:

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2000/PB2000-157.htm

The Equitable Portrayal Code can be found here:

http://www.cbsc.ca/english/codes/epc.php

It basically duplicates the definitions found in existing federal and provincial human rights legislation and the Charter right to equality in terms of what constitutes discrimination.

Freya