Canadians split on fee-for-carriage issue, poll finds

TORONTO – Canadians are split on whether cable companies should pay TV networks for their services, according to a new poll by Angus Reid.In the on-line survey conducted last week of 1,027 Canadian adults, 40% of respondents said that they believe the cable companies should not have to pay the television networks for the right to broadcast their signals, while 38% said that they think that they should. 22% said that they were not sure. Respondents in Ontario (43%) sided with the argument that cable companies should pay television networks for the use of their signals, while almost half of...