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“It’s clear the CRTC believes large-scale companies are a bad thing,” says Bell’s Crull

TORONTO – Bell Media president Kevin Crull laid a verbal smackdown on the CRTC Monday in Toronto.Speaking to a Broadcast Executives Society luncheon, Crull railed against last week’s CRTC vertical integration policy decision, which Bell is among just a few companies who came out against the Commission’s determination, saying the new policy will cause significant harm to the Canadian industry.After pointing out the TV business suffers with “a failed financial model for delivering conventional television,” Crull also pointed out how his company (owners of conventional broadcast brands CTV and CTV Two along with specialty channels like TSN, Discovery, Comedy Network,...