Cogeco calls FFC "irresponsible and inappropriate"

MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable said that it is broadcasters’ “rampant spending to purchase major US network programming” that is at the real root of what ails the industry, not simply the erosion of market share and advertising revenue.In a statement released after its appearance at the CRTC hearings Tuesday, the cable co said that granting broadcasters the right to charge compensation for signal “would be irresponsible and inappropriate”."Compensation for signal is only a partial and inappropriate solution to a much broader problem," said president and CEO Louis Audet, in a statement. "We are entitled to ask why the broadcasters are...