CBC/Radio-Canada's licence renewal hearing gets rebooted on Nov. 19

GATINEAU - The CRTC has re-launched the public process for the renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada’s broadcasting licences, a process that began last summer but was postponed on July 8, 2011. In the corporation's updated application, the national public broadcaster is urging the CRTC to accept two provisions it says are critical to preserving the key elements of the CBC’s 2015 Strategy: 1. A modern regulatory framework that will enable the public broadcaster to implement its strategy across all platforms and allow it to evolve with its audiences, with technology and with its changing environment; 2. Opportunity to generate new revenue to...