Bell wants Commission to put a stop to Rogers' brand new online NHL exclusives

GATINEAU – The NHL season was barely under way when Bell Canada filed a complaint with the CRTC over how Rogers is keeping an exclusive lid on some of the content for which it paid $5.2 billion.In an application filed October 10th and just made public Tuesday on the CRTC web site, Bell says Rogers’ new digital services which extend the NHL experience online and on mobile, GameCentre and GamePlus, violate sections 3 and 5 of the Exemption Order for Digital Media Broadcasting Undertakings by giving the company an “anticompetitive advantage.” Rogers bought the NHL rights for 12 years from the...