Rogers, broadcasters, forge "historic" agreement

TORONTO - While the CRTC has only just gathered opinions on how digital migration of specialty services might happen, Rogers Communications and six other programmers have already hammered out their own framework. The new deal, called “historic” last week by RCI CEO Ted Rogers, outlines how the country’s largest cable company and the six biggest broadcasters will handle the migration of analog specialty services to digital. It was submitted to the CRTC under its call for proposals for a digital migration framework, PN 2005-1. RCI vice-chairman Phil Lind, along with Rogers, first met with the chief executives of Alliance Atlantis...