Cable / Telecom News

Bell wastes little time seeking to adapt specialty channels to new TV policy

OTTAWA - Now that the CRTC has made the big decisions as part of its Let’s Talk TV process, it’s up to the major broadcasters to decide how they want to game the system to their advantage.  And Bell Media has already taken the first steps.On Monday, the CRTC posted applications from Bell to convert Bravo!,The Comedy Network, Discovery Channel, E!, MTV (Canada), M3, Much and Space from Category A services to Category B.  Before the Let’s Talk TV process, this would have been a dramatic and unlikely change.  But now it’s just accelerating a process that the Commission would have...