Bylaw VIII Section 3.
Board of Directors Responsibility for Radio Production Staff and Programming
The Board of Directors shall be responsible for the hiring of the staff of the radio station which will include Station Manager, Programming Director and a bookkeeper. Staff must be hired according to their qualifications for the positions. The Station Manager and Programming Director will be charged with operating the station in compliance with crtc guidelines. The Board of Directors will maintain a Programming Committee.
Policy One
The Board of Directors adopted the following policies January 2003
Programming Committee
The Programming Committee (PComm) will comprise the following members of Gabriola Co-op Radio: 2 Board members (1 non-voting chair selected by PComm) Programming Director, Music Director, 2 programmers (selected from active programmers pool), 2 members at large (selected by PComm).
Summary Acts by Station Management
Decisions about programming will be made by the programming committee, however, the station manager or the programming director may ban the broadcast of any material if any one of them believes the material is in contravention to the laws of Canada. Further, the station manager or the programming director may summarily cancel a program if the material broadcast is, in their opinion, shows a demonstrated history of being not of "high standardÓ as defined by the Broadcasting Act.
Consequences of invoking a Summary Act
Should the station manager or programming director invoke a summary act the following must occur: a meeting of the programming committee be immediately called and convened within 7 days, at that meeting reasons be given, by the Programming Chair, why the summary act was invoked, the programming committee must then decide to support or repeal the action of station management.
Actions of the Programming Committee
Actions of the Programming Committee may include limiting the times of day material / program may be broadcast without advisories, or a repeal of t he arbitrary act. No outright ban of the material can be made, only guidelines given for the context that it can be broadcast. Properly contextualized material may be broadcast at any time of day and all sexually explicit material must contain the proper advisories. Material intended to incite violence or hate may not be broadcast.
Appeal
Any decisions of the programming committee may be appealed to a general meeting of the membership. The decision of the general membership is final, but the issue can be brought up for discussion after 30 days.
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