ACTRA protests U.S. TV at Global upfront

TORONTO – Canadian actors used CanWest Global's upfront presentation today to protest the purchase of American programming for airing on prime time on Canadian broadcasters. CTV and Global each revealed their fall broadcast schedules to advertisers, the media and others this week, much of which is focused on popular American fare, purchased recently in Los Angeles for hundreds of millions of dollars (although with our dollar approaching 95-cents U.S., the price may seem less steep this year). "These private shindigs the broadcasters threw for themselves are disgraceful. And so was their latest junket to Hollywood to sell out their country's...