COMMENTARY: If everyone's a buyer, will Canada matter?

THE CEOs ARE IN AGREEMENT. Canadian media companies must get bigger in order to still matter. The problem is that those companies also agree on one other thing: They're all buyers. With Bell Globemedia's deal to acquire CHUM Limited now complete but for the opinion of the regulator, we've had a summer marked by an irresistible spasm of speculation of who might be next. The CTV-CHUM combination will be a big media company by Canadian standards – while remaining a pretty modest operation compared to the U.S. giants. Will Astral Media buy Standard Broadcasting? Will Corus Entertainment and Alliance Atlantis...