CRTC receives over 2500 comments on community-based media

OTTAWA – More than 2,560 Canadians have weighed in on the role of community television in Canada, according the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Status (CACTUS).The comments now form part of the CRTC’s online and written public record for its 2010 review of community television scheduled for April 26, 2010. The deadline for responses to the Commission’s questions on community TV was February 1st.CACTUS, who will be front and centre at the review, says that it has developed a model that will allow most communities in Canada to establish their own multi-media centres and “take back” their local...