CACTUS finds community channels more like "regional TV networks"

OTTAWA - With the CRTC hearing on Canada’s community TV policy just over a month away, the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS) says that the majority of community TV channels have been transformed into regional TV networks. After the CRTC released a list of Canada’s 139 community TV channels earlier this year, CACTUS says that a review of the channels’ program schedules found that in English Canada there are only 19 distinct programming services, in which at least half of the programming schedule is produced locally. The rest replay programming produced primarily in larger centres.“Lack of...