Radio / Television News

Bell wants CRTC to stop Rogers from relocating new channels

By Ahmad Hathout Bell Media has filed a complaint to the CRTC alleging Rogers wants to give itself an undue preference by replacing two of its newly rebranded channels with the cable company’s newly acquired programming -- Discovery and Investigation Discovery (I.D.). Bell previously had the rights to the Discovery and the I.D. brands, but lost them to Rogers when rights owner Warner Bros. Discovery (WDB) signed a multi-year licensing deal with the cable giant this past summer. To make up for that, Bell announced in October that it acquired the rights to bring USA Network -- to replace Discovery...