BDU Licence Renewals: Set-top data demands and community TV cuts

GATINEAU - CRTC commisioner Christopher MacDonald’s persistent questioning on day one of the hearing into license renewals for several BDUs roughly translated to: “What’s taking so long with the set top box viewership data?”Quebecor, Rogers, Shaw and Eastlink, all members of the Set Top box working group (check), each had very similar answers to MacDonald’s line of questions. Essentially the answers boiled down to: “What we’re doing is hard, pioneering, and with an uncertain business model, so yes, it’s a slow process.”The group first met more than two years ago.During the CRTC’s Let’s Talk TV process, the CRTC essentially ordered the...