ANALYSIS: How the FCC’s set top box rules can kill Canadian television

Without a major regulatory change, the traditional TV industry here faces a chilling futureIF THE CRTC DOESN’T, at long last, review the 1999 New Media Exemption Order, the Canadian TV industry as we know it may well perish in the next five years, at the cost of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs – all while production of Canadian content shrivels to whatever the CBC makes.Last week, the Federal Communications Commission reached a compromise deal with the subscription TV titans in the States over the American regulator’s so-called push to “unlock the box”. For most of 2016,...