OTTAWA – The CRTC has crushed George Burger’s plans for his own TV network for the second time after denying his application for a new service to be known as Crush.
The former Alliance Communications Corp. executive was also behind a failed attempt a few years ago for a national English-language pay television licence called Spotlight. The Commission awarded the license to Allarco Entertainment for Super Channel, as Cartt.ca reported.
In his latest application, Burger asked for a license for a national, English-language Category 2 network targeting males aged 18 to 34, that would air a mix of theatrical feature films aired on television, comedy series and dramatic series, mini-series, movies-for-television, animation, and sports and music videos.
But the Commission said Monday that the proposed new service, as it stands, would be in direct competition with existing analog or Category 1 services, and specifically, general-interest pay television services.
