Canadian Broadcasting authority gets Native network applicant

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The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is considering applicants for specialty services licences and one applicant is called TPTV Inc.

TPTV Inc. is aimed at Native people and is offering all Canadians educational and entertainment programming, according to President Peter Rice.

Suggested programs would include: various college courses, The Body Shop (health and fitness show), coverage of Native sports, a weekly talk show, an amateur talent show, and This Was the Land That Wasn't, a satirical current events show.

If the licence is given to TPTV Inc. the programming will air on national television as a basic cable service. The final CRTC decisions will be made on August 14.