Bluepoint to buy SCN for $350,000, wants to sell ads

REGINA and GATINEAU – Some details of Bluepoint Investments purchase of the Saskatchewan Communications Network emerged Monday when its application to take ownership was made public by the CRTC.Bluepoint, which made a few waves last year by agreeing to, and then pulling out of, a $1 deal to purchase the now-defunct CKX-TV station in Brandon, Man., made a last minute deal to buy SCN just days before the Saskatchewan government was to pull the plug on the provincial pubcaster.According to its application, Bluepoint plans to imitate the privatization of Alberta’s Access and has committed to spend $12.25 million over the...