COMMENTARY: Why the Yale report must be shelved (Part II)

Making competition illegal to support broken business models must be opposed By Tim Denton THE BROADCAST AND TELECOM Legislative Review (BTLR) panel report, also known as the Yale Report, went an order of magnitude further than many assumed it would in seeking to expand the power of the CRTC, through the Broadcasting Act. Not content with placing all full motion video into the jurisdiction of the Commission, it also proposed that written materials (alpha-numeric text) be subject to federal regulatory authority when the content in question is news. It should be noted that Brad Danks did not rely on these...