Cartt.ca at Banff: Industry brass weigh in on TV policy review

BANFF – Canadian industry execs filling the halls at the Banff World Television Festival told Cartt.ca they welcome CRTC review of conventional television and the request from the Heritage Minister Beverley Oda to study the technological changes facing the broadcast industry. “We want a little freedom,” says Phil Lind, vice-chairman, Rogers Communications. “We have been shackled to death with regulation over the years, and we want to break out of that somehow. We’ve got to realize that people just don’t really understand all of these arcane rules and regulations that have been developed in the '60s, '70s and '80s, that...