Astral wants CRTC to stop Videotron's Netflix

Steve Faguy MONTREAL and GATINEAU - Less than a week after it launched, Vidéotron's answer to Netflix is under attack from a competitor. Astral Media filed a complaint this week with the CRTC alleging that the Quebecor-owned cable company's subscription video on demand service called Illico Club Unlimited competes directly with Astral's French-language pay TV movie channel Super Écran, and that the Commission should order Videotron to stop. Quebecor responded to Astral's complaint before it was even published by the CRTC, issuing a press release on Friday morning and publishing an opinion piece written by Quebecor CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau...