Angus wants more hearings, too

OTTAWA – Just as the CEP union did earlier this week, NDP Heritage Critic Charlie Angus Wednesday called for new CRTC hearings into media concentration arising from the CTV/CHUM purchase."The Canadian public continues to be shortchanged by the CRTC regarding the serious threats posed by mega-media concentration," says Angus' release today. “Who’s kidding who here? Are we expected to think that the CRTC will hold up the single largest corporate merger in Canadian media history simply because they are accepting letters from the public?” asked Angus. He also mentioned that before the merger goes ahead, the CRTC must undertake a...