Porn channels boost their Canadian content to meet CRTC guidelines

Three TV channels specializing in pornography have been forced to enhance their Canadian content and closed-captioning to meet CRTC guidelines.

AOV Adult Movie Channel, AOV Action Clips and AOV Maleflixxx and two mainstream, non-pornographic channels, Moviola and Silver Screen Classics, which are all specialty television services, are up for licence renewals.

They had been warned by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission that they may have failed to comply with licensing conditions when they provided less than 35 per cent Canadian programming and less than 90 per cent closed captioning for English-language shows.

The CRTC has the power to suspend or revoke the licences.

But according to evidence presented to a CRTC licence review hearing in Gatineau, Que., the services are “now in full compliance’’ with Canadian content rules, and 100 per cent of the programming on all the channels is closed-captioned.