Blaming CTF, Commission approves TVO Cancon cut

OTTAWA – The CRTC Thursday agreed to allow TV Ontario to cut its level of Canadian content by five more percentage points. In August, the Ontario public broadcaster told the Commission that production funding changes have made it difficult to hit the 65% Cancon level required by its condition of license and asked that it be reduced to 60%. In 2001, the Commission allowed TVO/TFO to cuts its Cancon level from 70% to 65% but 60% is the level contained in the licenses of fellow provincial educational broadcasters: B.C.’s Knowledge Network, Alberta’s Access Communications the Saskatchewan Communications Network. “TVOntario argued...