Licence and Poetic Licence: A Critical Examination of the Complicated Relationship Between the CRTC and Specialty Channels
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Specialty channels in Canada earn revenues from cable carriage that are rarely commensurate with their audience size. These revenues are potentially so lucrative that prospective operators often make unrealistic promises to the CRTC regarding the channels’ original and Canadian content. In exchange for these promises, the Commission limits competition among specialty channels. Once a licence is obtained, however, specialty channels quickly attempt to extricate themselves from their burdensome promises in order to maximize profits and establish stronger advertising revenues. In some cases, specialty channels attempt to redefine themselves in ways that depart significantly from their original promises. Specialty channels can improve their chances of securing changes to their licences through strategically timed applications. In a misguided attempt to promote Canadian programming and curb the dominance of American broadcasters, the CRTC is not allowing specialty channels to properly prepare for a future that may not include lucrative revenues from cable subscription fees.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it