ANALYSIS: Why Rogers' OMNI ask must instead be a national call

By Aldo Di Felice

Coalition of Canadian multicultural media producers readying competing proposal to OMNI in anticipation of CRTC callFEW CANADIANS OUTSIDE of the TV industry are aware of a major decision under consideration by the CRTC right now that involves the Rogers Communications-owned multicultural TV channels known as OMNI TV.Rogers is asking the Commission to turn OMNI Free TV into OMNI Pay TV and for all Canadians to chip in about $80 million to help Rogers run the channel (Cartt.ca has reported on that here, here, here and here). It is a financial bailout request by one of Canada's richest companies. A bailout...