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CAB opposes Craig re-entry plan

OTTAWA – If former Craig Media CEO Drew Craig wants back into broadcasting, he's going to have to go about it some other way, says the Canadian Association of Broadcasters. The association submitted a strongly-worded letter to the CRTC on Friday opposing Craig's plan (as first reported by Cartt.ca) to create a company called Only Imagine Inc. to sell local ad avail time on U.S. cable channels and turn over a chunk of the profits to a new fund to create Canadian television content. "OII’s application would have the effect of irrevocably altering the Commission’s current local avails policy, transforming foreign...