Radio / Television News

CBDA 2008: Saying what we’re all thinking


TORONTO – Ah, the on demand age is truly a golden age for consumers – where we can all get whatever we want, when we want it, wherever we are, on whatever device – for free or as close to free as possible. The sense that broadcasters actually hate all that freedom was refreshing to hear spoken out loud at this week’s Canadian Digital Broadcasting Summit. The CBC’s Steve Billinger, while accepting this new paradigm is the way it is and there’s no going back, admitted broadcasters are being dragged kicking and screaming into the new reality. “We clearly don’t...