COMMENT: BDU policy review preview

ANYONE WISHING A BIT of a preview of January's hearings on broadcast distribution undertaking and specialty services policy changes need only speed through Shaw Communications intervention in the CanWest Global/Goldman Sachs purchase of Alliance Atlantis proceeding.The three page document outlines in very brief terms what Shaw – and likely other cable companies – will be looking for once that policy review comes around. Shaw didn't object at all to the proposed merger but the company rarely misses a chance to state its case on where it believes the regulator should be heading. "In combination with other recent or pending transactions...