Fee-For-Carriage: "Robbing Peter to pay Paul" won't help the system: Greenberg

TORONTO – After saying he believes it's "good business" to help produce and then show Canadian content, Astral Media CEO Ian Greenberg today sent a message to Gatineau, cautioning the CRTC against letting conventional broadcasters into the wholesale fee game. "Our pay and specialty television services have invested over $1 billion in the development and purchase of original Canadian-content production, and in support of home-grown talent, since we began in this industry. We believe it is good business to do this," he said in a speech to shareholders at the company's annual general meeting in Toronto. "But even more important,...