Big jump in TSN wholesale rate to be phased in, says Bell's Crull

GATINEAU – With the deregulation of the mainstream sports and national news taking effect as of September 1st, the entire industry knew to brace itself for what TSN was about to ask for.Having owned genre protection for two decades, TSN also owned a CRTC regulated rate of $1.07 per subscriber per month as long as a distributor kept the channel in its basic package.But with genre protection going away (thanks to 2008-100), so is that rate. While the country’s most popular specialty channel won’t, of course, say what rate they are asking for from Canadian distributors (we’ve heard rumours in...