CBDA 2008: Industry still searching for answers

TORONTO – The speed at which change arrives and is being forced on everyone in the media space is still so breathtaking that hard and fast answers on what we must do today, tomorrow and well beyond are still pretty elusive. After listening to some strategy, regulatory and technical sessions at this week’s annual Canadian Broadcast Distribution Association conference (formerly the Canadian Satellite Users Association), those were my conclusions, anyway. The last 12 months have born witness to four large mergers: CanWest now owns Alliance Atlantis; CTVglobemedia runs the former CHUM channels; Rogers has Citytv; and Telesat got together with...