Independent cableco supports broadcasters push for fee; but not too big of one

CLEARWATER, B.C. – Not all Canadian cable companies are against the broadcasters’ receiving a fee for their conventional television stations.Tiny Raftview Communications, which serves the towns of Clearwater, B.C. (pop. 5,000, about 120 kms north of Kamloops) and Barriere (pop. 3,400, and about 60 kms farther north) with digital cable, high definition and high speed Internet has come out against its cable compatriots on the issue of fee for carriage.“It is absolutely unreasonable that these broadcasters receive nothing for their service,” company president Paul Caissie writes in his submission to the CRTC for the December 7th hearing (2009-614) into the...