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COMMENTARY: “Boy, we’re behind.” And if the battles continue, we won’t catch up

I LOVE GOING TO confabs like NextMedia. As Telus’ SVP Michael Hennessy tweeted earlier this week: “Finished 2 days at #nextMEDIA looking to future of digital media. No discussion of #FFC, #CRTC. Met real digital entrepreneurs. Awesome.”Hennessy told me Monday at that conference that when it comes to the debate over value for signal for over the air broadcasters, he’s done. Telus won’t be appearing at next week’s hearing into the issue, the one ordered by the feds.Indeed, two days at NextMedia (built off a backdrop of my four days in Denver at Cable Connection Week in October, where the...