Canwest reiterates relief requests

GATINEAU - Like CTV beforehand, Canwest - in its second appearance at the CRTC’s OTA licence renewal hearings - focused on obtaining relief from certain of its programming obligations Thursday afternoon in front of the Commission. There was little tension in the Q&A session, but there were some requests for “changes” to Canwest’s licence obligations - repeated from the Tuesday appearance - and several specific requests for Global Ontario, Global Quebec and CJNT-TV in Montreal, a station focused on ethnic programming. Again like CTV, Canwest asked for changes to its priority programming conditions. But where CTV asked that the definition...