Bell files for judicial review of fee-for-carriage process with Federal Court of Appeal

OTTAWA – In less than 24 months, the CRTC has gone from telling the industry there isn’t enough evidence to allow local broadcasters to charge BDUs for their signals, to indicating it wants to use next month’s hearing into the TV biz to decide how – and how much – can be charged.This ride towards fee for carriage (or “value for signal” as some are now terming it) has been a long and bumpy one, culminating in last month’s Commission release which said the Regulator now favours it and that the industry now needs to negotiate its way to some...