BANFF 2011: CRTC deals "with facts, not spidey sense", says chair, talking OTT

By Lesley Hunter

BANFF – CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein is one busy guy these days – just ask him. “We have a hearing virtually every month which is unheard of”, he told Cartt.ca on Monday morning at the Banff World Festival.A few of the biggest broadcast-related issues on his plate at the moment – the pending digital transition and the impact that the over-the-top services are having in Canada - figured prominently in his annual breakfast speech to delegates here on the confab’s first full day.Congratulating the country’s TV broadcasters on their efforts to date to comply with August 31st deadline, which...