THE CRTC’s TELEVISION POLICY Review hearing, which gets under way this morning with the CBC facing the commissioners, will have everyone involved in the Canadian TV industry on tenterhooks for months (like it hasn’t already!).
The Ceeb will be followed today by TQS, then CanWest Global and CTV.
While fee-for-carriage will overshadow much of the discussion over the next week-and-a-half or so, of course we at Cartt.ca know there’s far more to this hearing than that. The overall effects of new media will be a dominant topic, as will important issues like advertising flexibility, high definition transition solutions, what to do about Canadian content quotas and drama, small market concerns, timeshifting, you name it – it’s on the docket.
Reflecting such an important hearing, Cartt.ca will have a reporter on-site every day, filing stories. And, we will publish our e-newsletter daily all this week – and for every day the hearing runs. If it goes two weeks, we’ll be daily for two weeks.
Also, for background and additional color, below you’ll find 10 links to stories we’ve done just over the past two months relating to the hearing – and those are just some snippets of our pre-hearing coverage.
While other Canadian media outlets are just now getting to these issues, Cartt.ca has been providing regular reports for months.
Comprehensive industry coverage. Only from Cartt.ca.
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The TUESDAY INTERVIEW: CanWest Global CEO Leonard Asper
BDUs, broadcasters spar over regulatory reform
CRTC faces daunting task with TV policy review
The TUESDAY INTERVIEW: CBC president and CEO Robert Rabinovitch
Young Canadians turn off their TVs, radios
Independent specialties oppose over-the-air sub fee
Fifty cents per sub? Climbing the paper mountain of the CRTC’s TV Policy Review
