CRTC to pilot CTF task force

OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Well, this will douse some of the fire that was sure to burn at this week's Canadian Film and Television Producers Association Prime Time conference in Ottawa beginning Wednesday evening. With Heritage Minister Bev Oda and new CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein as scheduled speakers at the conference this week, one can bet that producers were prepared to pepper them with repeated questions on the Canadian Television Fund and TV production funding in Canada in general. However, with Shaw's announcement today that it will turn its cash spigot to the CTF back on plus this Commission announcement today...