Commission adds to April hearing, but maintains it will not be talking fee-for-carriage

GATINEAU – The Commission has added to what it wants discussed at next month’s conventional TV station license renewal narrow-hearing. With the economic crisis fully blasting conventional TV’s ad revenues and threatening local content because that’s primarily where the private broadcasters have decided to cut costs, the Regulator is looking at ways to immediately help out the OTA sector. Last year, the CRTC’s new policies governing Broadcast Distribution Undertakings and specialty channels said, among many things, denied the broadcasters’ requests to be able to charge a new fee for carriage of local signals, but said that they could charge DTH,...