High level alterations at Commission

GATINEAU – With Len Katz now vice-chair telecom, his old post of executive director of broadcasting and telecommunications was open. Instead of filling the post with another, CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein announced this week that Katz and vice-chair broadcasting Michel Arpin will together carry out the co-ordination activities Katz used to do. As well, Ian Scott, von Finckenstein’s chief policy advisor, has assumed a similar co-ordinating role “with respect to issues relating to policy development and research, as well as issues that impact our business such as legislative proposals, acquisitions, dispute settlement, international affairs, new media and revised nomenclature,”...