CBC files second complaint to CRTC against Star Choice

OTTAWA – The Canadian Broadcasting Corp./Radio-Canada asked the CRTC this week to order satellite TV distributor Star Choice to immediately include RDI in its digital basic to subscribers in Anglophone markets. It is the second complaint filed this week to the CRTC by the public broadcaster. “Despite repeated efforts on the part of the CBC/Radio-Canada, the corporation has been unable to secure carriage of RDI on Star Choie’s basic service in Anglophone markets. RDI is not available on the ‘English Essentials package,’” CBC Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs Bev Kirshenblatt writes in a May 14 letter to the CRTC. In...