Cable / Telecom News

Getting ready for the ’09 new media review, Commission releases reports

GATINEAU - An independent report prepared by Columbia University professor Eli Noam and a summary of an online consultation on the new media industry by Nanos Research was made public by the CRTC on Tuesday. The first report titled TV or Not TV: Three Screens, One Regulation? Was commissioned by the Commission earlier this year as input for its new media proceeding, planned for early 2009. The author was commissioned to provide an analysis of the Canadian new media broadcasting industry and discuss possible regulatory policy solutions. The second report is a compilation of data taken from an online consultation...