APTN asking for monthly rate boost: Cable opposes

NIAGARA FALLS - APTN has asked the CRTC for a 10-cent increase in its monthly wholesale rate. The request is part of its broadcasting license renewal application which the CRTC will hear today in Niagara Falls. As a CRTC-mandated must-carry, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network already gets 15 cents per TV subscriber per month from all cable and satellite TV customers and wants the Commission to increase it to $0.25. It would mean an increase in annual baseline subscription revenue from about $18 million to approximately $30 million, given that there are a little over 10 million TV subscribers in...