‘Get on with it’: Corus urging CRTC to grant financial relief it proposed months ago

By Ahmad Hathout Corus is urging the CRTC to hurry up and make a decision on a proposal to grant the media company temporarily relief on its financial obligations to Canadian content and pandemic back pay. Next Friday will mark exactly six months since the CRTC proposed granting the pure-play media company “exceptional” relief by reducing its spending to programs of national interest from 8.5 to 5 per cent of previous year’s revenues and by extending the time to pay back what it already owes the regulator from the pandemic relief period. In the days after the decision, Corus CEO...