Radio / Television News

Avis de recherche searches for hope


MONTREAL — Vincent Geracitano runs the gamut of emotions describing the future of his television channel: pride, enjoyment, worry, but mostly anger about how it's being taken away from him. More than once during an interview with Cartt.ca, he's brought to tears.When the CRTC made its decisions on mandatory carriage public August 8, it denied most of the applications from existing or proposed channels seeking the status for the first time, and approved most of the applications for renewal. Géracitano's channel, Avis de recherche, was the only service with mandatory carriage that had its renewal denied. And he doesn't understand...