Avoid incremental regulation at all costs, Rogers tells CRTC

By Ahmad Hathout Rogers executives said Friday they feared the CRTC would come out of its hearings on the modernization of the Broadcasting Act emboldened to try to regulate some of the issues it has identified during its current proceeding instead of loosening the regulatory grip it has had on traditional broadcasters. “We can't rely on the traditional tools anymore,” said Dean Shaikh, the company’s senior vice president of regulatory affairs. “We no longer have a closed system. We're competing against massive online streaming giants that have no rules. We need much more flexibility to compete for audiences, subscribers, advertising...