Commission will look at regulating new media

JACKSON POINT, Ont. – As part of a wide-ranging new media study, the CRTC will look at myriad issues, even discussing whether or not to regulate new media in Canada, CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein told an invitation-only broadcast event this week (we weren’t invited, sniffle,) launching the Commission’s New Media Project Initiative. There’s no doubt that new media and the alternative ways Canadians can get audio and visual content is having -- and will continue to have – a growing impact on traditional broadcasting, both culturally and economically. So, as the monitor of traditional media in Canada and the...