Cugini's renewal came with some backroom drama

OTTAWA – It sure would have been weird last Friday to have seen an empty seat among the cast of five commissioners fronting the hearing into BDU and specialty service policies. But, according to a couple of good sources, that’s almost what happened. Commissioner Rita Cugini’s original three-year term as a CRTC commissioner came to an end on Thursday, April 10th, or day three of one of the most important hearings in the TV industry’s history. If she wasn’t renewed that day – and she began the morning with it potentially being her final day of work at the Commission...