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WildBrain alleges Rogers unfairly prioritizing other content over its own

By Ahmad Hathout WildBrain is alleging that Rogers is giving competing discretionary channels and the Disney+ streaming service preferential treatment over its own programming in the cable company’s TV guide, according to a heavily-redacted Part 1 application dated September but made public by the CRTC on Monday. The application alleges that WildBrain’s Family Channel, Family Jr., WildBrain TV and Telemagino are being torpedoed by Rogers in favour of other “comparable discretionary television programming services with which the WildBrain Services are in direct competition,” which the Halifax-based company is alleging is “disrupting the children’s discretionary television market for children’s programming, particularly...