CMG, CEP want "widest possible input" in to shortened broadcast license renewals

TORONTO and OTTAWA – Industry reaction to the CRTC’s decision to issue one year broadcast licences to four private conventional television networks has been swift. The Candian Media Guild (CMG) warned that the decision “poses an immediate threat to local programming” in Canada, and “should raise fears across the country” over the future of over-the-air television after the digital conversion in August, 2011. “We know that broadcasters have had an unprecedented number of closed-door meetings with the CRTC," said Lise Lareau, president of CMG, in a statement. “Our concern is that this fast-tracking of the process is going to circumvent...