CRTC expediting Bell and Videotron discretionary services deadlock

OTTAWA – The CRTC said in a letter Friday that it is giving Bell and Videotron until the end of the month to report back on progress in negotiations involving Bell French-language channels that Videotron wants to axe from its rotation -- while also moving up dates for intervenors to file comments in the matter. Bell initially filed a Part 1 application on August 11 asking for the regulator to make a decision on allegations that Videotron is giving itself an undue preference by allowing its own competing channels to stay on while proposing to remove Bell’s Vrak.tv and Z....