New media stakeholders practise their lines; ISP levy, anyone? How about Cancon requirements?

TORONTO – A mini new media hearing took place yesterday at the St. Andrew's Club and Conference Centre as delegates at Insight Information’s Entertainment Industries Summit practiced advocating their positions in preparation for the real thing when the CRTC’s new media hearing begins in February 2009. Stakeholders from the arts community predictably called for cultural protections and funding mechanisms in any new media broadcasting legislation, while broadcasters – equally predictably – advocated an industrial strategy for new media that is separate from any arts strategy discussion. What all delegates seemed to agree on is that a review of new media...