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CRTC tells Rogers Media to uphold local programming commitment on OMNI’s Quebec feed

OTTAWA – The CRTC has turned down a request from Rogers Media seeking to decrease local programming on the Quebec feed of its multilingual multi-ethnic discretionary service OMNI Regional.OMNI Regional offers its service in four separate regional feeds.  Rogers asked the Commission to change the condition of licence from requiring the Quebec feed of the service to include 14 hours of original, local independently produced programming each week to be 14 hours of original, local ethnic programming each month. Rogers said that the proposal to provide 14 hours weekly of original, local independently produced programming on the Quebec feed was an...