Frustrated CCTA looks forward to "new Commission"

OTTAWA – After absorbing a few regulatory blows the past two weeks, CCTA president Michael Hennessy says he’s happy to be moving forward with, “a new regime at the Commission.” The run of bad news, from the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association point of view, began with the August 31st decision to grant the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network its requested 10-cent per month wholesale rate increase.The must-carry-by-everybody-no-matter-what channel will now cost Canadian TV subscribers $0.25 a month instead of $0.15, boosting APTN’s annual revenue stream to about $30 million, not counting its ad sales. Since cable will feel the consumer blow-back...