Broadcasting distribution undertaking: Providers of subscription television service to Canadians by redistributing programming from conventional over‐the‐air television and radio stations. They also distribute pay audio, pay television, pay‐per‐view, video‐on‐demand, and speciality services. Examples include cable (delivered through coaxial cables), satellite, and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). [1]

Campus and community radio: A campus or community radio station is owned, operated, managed and controlled by a not-for-profit organization that provides for membership, management, operation and programming primarily by members of the community served. In its openness to community involvement, campus and community stations offer ongoing opportunities for training in the operation of their station to volunteers from the community served. [2]

Community: A social group whose members live together or share common interests or property.

Community channel: A community channel means the channel of a distribution undertaking that is used by a licensee or by a community programming undertaking for the distribution of community programming within a licensed area of the distribution undertaking.[3]

Community newspaper: A print and non-bound periodical that primarily circulates local or regional information on a geographically defined territory or on information on the basis of common interests (e.g.: farm, ethnocultural, minority official language, religious), published under a common name at regular intervals, and no more than once a week. Canadian Heritage uses also the word non-daily newspaper.[4]

Conventional television station: A conventional television station is a television station (public or private) that broadcast its signals using over-the-air transmitters.[5] The vast majority of their Canadian programming expenditures is allocated to local programming and local news in particular.[6]

Radio and audio services: This term includes private AM and FM commercial radio, non‐commercial AM and FM radio, Satellite subscription radio services and pay and specialty audio services.[7]