BELL/ASTRAL: New owners means CTV has lost its will to compromise, Rogers tells CRTC

MONTREAL – “If we had realized last year how Bell would behave once it acquired CTV, we would have opposed that application and proposed even stronger safeguards in the Vertical Integration proceeding,” said Rogers vice-president of regulatory affairs Pam Dinsmore in kicking off Rogers Communications’ opposition to the Bell-Astral merger on Wednesday morning. “However, we know the Commission cannot turn back the clock back on the CTV transaction now. That ship has sailed.” The RCI presentation told a tale of how CTV has changed since being acquired by Bell Canada, a story where multiplatform rights are routinely held back and...