CRTC calls for comments on expanded production report from big ownership groups

OTTAWA – The CRTC is seeking feedback on a new production report to be completed annually by the large English- and French-language ownership groups in place of the current programs of national interest (PNI) report.The new report, which would only apply to licensed services, would include all Canadian programming expenditure categories, except news and sports programming. The Commission said that it is considering expanding the key creative roles in the report to include ‘showrunner’, for example, and is also asking for input on draft templates that include Canadian programming expenditures by region and language, as well as programming produced by Indigenous and official language...