Community Channel Hearing: Commission searches for compromises to "radical" proposal

GATINEAU – After watching day one of the CRTC’s hearing into its policies on community television, we settled on couple of key takeaways.1) It would appear unlikely the Commission will adopt the CACTUS plan where the estimated $130 million already devoted to cable community channels via 2% of subscriber fees would be redirected to a new fund backing dozens of new independent, not-for-profit community channels/multimedia centres across the country.2) The CRTC commissioners do seem to want a higher level of access, accountability and transparency from the cable companies who already offer their own community channels.First into the live CPAC.ca stream...