ACTRA urges CRTC not to "give in to private broadcaster threats"

TORONTO - As the CRTC gears up to begin licence renewals hearings for Canada’s private conventional broadcasters, ACTRA is asking the Commission not to “give in to private broadcaster threats” and “punish Canadian programming”. Urging the CRTC to resist any calls from broadcasters for deregulation or “watering down” of Canadian content regulations, the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) proposed that broadcasters be required to maintain their level of spending on Canadian drama to at least the level they spent this year.“Don’t punish Canadian programming. Canadian content regulations didn’t cause the current challenges in our broadcasting system,” said...