Kootenay Co-op Radio 93.5 FM - CRTC Content Categories

Public Notice CRTC 2000-14 Ottawa, 28 January 2000
Content categories and subcategories for radio

Category 1 - Spoken Word
This category includes the following two subcategories:

Subcategory 11: News
The recounting and reporting of local, regional, national and international events of the day or recent days, with particular emphasis on the topicality of the events or situations selected, or on the constant updating of information, or both as well as background material about current events when included in newscasts but excluding weather, traffic and sports and entertainment reports.

Subcategory 12: Spoken word-other
All programming with the exception of material falling under subcategory 11-News and categories 2, 3, 4 and 5 (Popular Music, Special Interest Music, Musical Production and Advertising).

Category 2 - Popular Music
This encompasses musical selections in the genres or groups of genres set out below:

Subcategory 21: Pop, rock and dance
This refers to music from the entire pop, rock and dance music spectrum. Examples include all types of rock music, including soft rock, hard rock, classic rock, heavy metal, modern rock, alternative rock, jazz rock, folk rock, and blues rock. It also includes pop, rock & roll, rhythm & blues from the fifties and sixties, soul, dance, techno, rap, hiphop, urban, and contemporary rhythm & blues. This includes musical selections listed in charts such as AC (Adult Contemporary), Hot AC, Pop Adult, AOR (Album-Oriented Rock), CHR (Contemporary Hit Radio), Alternative, Modern, Adult Alternative, Active Rock, Dance, R&B, Urban, and Techno, compiled and published by music trade publications.

Subcategory 22: Country and country-oriented
This includes country & western, country music recorded since the 1950s, new country, and other country-oriented styles. It includes musical selections listed in Country charts compiled and published by music trade publications.

Subcategory 23: Acoustic
This refers to music performed in an acoustic style that draws largely from Category 2 Popular music genres.

Subcategory 24: Easy listening
Easy listening includes easy listening instrumentals, adult standards, middle-of-the-road and beautiful music.

Category 3 - Special Interest Music
This encompasses musical selections in the genres or groups of genres set out below:

Subcategory 31: Concert
Concert music includes the whole spectrum of the "classical" music traditions, including opera and operetta. It also includes extended dramatic excerpts of popular musical theatre when performed in a full-cast version. It does not include orchestrations of "popular music", however classical in form.

Subcategory 32: Folk and folk-oriented
This genre includes authentic, traditional folk music, as well as contemporary folk-oriented music, that draw substantially on traditional folk music in style and performance. It includes old-time country music recorded before the 1950s, and traditional bluegrass.

Subcategory 33: World beat and international
This genre includes world beat music that draws heavily from the traditional music styles of countries throughout the world. It also includes music from the popular, folk and classical music traditions of countries throughout the world that are played in instrumental form or sung in languages other than English and French.

Subcategory 34: Jazz and blues
This includes both historic and contemporary music in the jazz and blues traditions. Examples of music in the jazz tradition include ragtime, Dixieland, "golden age" swing, modern swing, bebop, "cool" jazz, modern, avant-garde, Latin-oriented jazz, jazz-funk, soft contemporary jazz, contemporary jazz fusion and other contemporary and emerging jazz styles. Examples of music in the blues tradition include classic blues, delta blues, Chicago blues, and contemporary blues music.

Subcategory 35: Non-classic religious
This refers to music of religious faiths. It also includes gospel music, hymns, and contemporary Christian music.

Category 4 - Musical Production
Musical matter broadcast by a station to identify itself or any of the components of its programming, including musical linking devices used to highlight elements of the broadcast service. For greater particularity, this category includes the following five subcategories:

Subcategory 41: Musical themes, bridges and stingers
Musical selections used to identify particular program segments, or to extend programming segments to the end of their allotted time as well as applause, brief musical and other sound effects intended to punctuate the presentation of other broadcast matter, where this matter is less than one minute in duration.

Subcategory 42: Technical tests
Broadcast matter intended to be used for the purposes of technical tests by the station or its listeners.

Subcategory 43: Musical station identification
Short musical selections designed to identify the station by call letters or frequency.

Subcategory 44: Musical identification of announcers, programs
Musical material identifying and accompanying the use of specific announcers, programs or elements.

Subcategory 45: Musical promotion of announcers, programs
Musical material promoting increased listening to specific announcers, programs or programming elements.

Category 5 - Advertising
Broadcast matter intended to promote services or products offered to the public by persons normally advertising in the course of their business. For greater particularity, this category includes the following three subcategories:

Subcategory 51: Commercial announcement
A commercial announcement for a business, product or service, presented in return for consideration.

Subcategory 52: Sponsor identification
Identification of the sponsor of a program or program segment other than under subcategories 51 and 53.

Subcategory 53: Promotion with sponsor mention
Verbal or musical material promoting increased listening to the station or to specific announcers, programs or programming elements, when accompanied by the identification of a sponsor.