COMMENTARY: This is the new TV

THE CTV-MTV DEAL announced today, while very important for CTV and awfully painful for CHUM, which loses its MTV content, is just a little piece of the enormous change the broadcast television industry is facing - on a number of fronts.To me, it’s part of “the new TV,” for lack of a better term, where traditional boundaries are quickly breaking down. The lines between broadcast, specialty and pay are blurring to the point that they matter less and less from a viewer’s perspective every day. People watch shows. They want content. The fact that it’s on CTV or Global or...