Commission Chair to broadcasters: "We need more resources"

BANFF – In a wide-ranging speech this morning at the Banff International Television Festival that covered all the touchstones and hot buttons, from the CTF to the OTA regs to Friday’s CTV/CHUM decision, to the diversity/media concentration study to impending reports and hearings, CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein told delegates that getting all this done will take more resources than the CRTC currently has. For example, CRTC broadcast vice-chair Michel Arpin is in the midst of a task force report on the Canadian Television Fund. Getting the Commission to issue a decision on the CTV purchase of CHUM in 39...