New pay-TV apps public today

TORONTO – Four new pay television license applications are set to be made public today, one of which tugs on the Commission’s Cancon heartstrings – and if approved, would yank open the existing pay TV channels’ purse strings. New pay television applications from Allarco Entertainment, Groupe Archambeault, Spotlight Television and Channel Zero will be made public at 11 a.m. this morning, www.cartt.ca has learned. The Allarco application is backed by Dr. Charles Allard and his family, who used to own WIC and Superchannel and who still own several smaller broadcasting assets in radio in western Canada. Groupe Archambeault is the...