CACTUS pitches new fund to shore up community TV

OTTAWA – With less than a week before the CRTC begins its community television hearing, the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS) has released details on a proposal which it says will hand community channels back to Canadians.CACTUS suggests that the money that cable companies collect from their subscribers, (which it estimates as more than $100 million per year), be directed to a Community-Access Media Fund (CAMF) which would then be used to establish 250 community-run multi-media training and production centres across the country “in communities that have lost a distinct service on cable”.The new centres would help...