CTV launches site to help "save local television"

TORONTO – CTV has ratcheted up its PR campaign in support of fee-for-carriage with the debut of www.savelocal.ctv.ca The web page says that the future of local broadcasting is “at stake” largely because of “the problem” of current regulations allowing cable and satellite companies to “take” CTV and 'A' channel programming without compensation “and then charge you, the consumer, for the programming they take for free.” “Television service providers, including cable and satellite companies, are reaping huge profits at the direct expense of local Canadian TV stations that are going out of business”, the information says. The solution? Fee-for-carriage, only worded in a...