Cable / Telecom News

LET’S TALK TV: Commission demands Google, Netflix to comply – or be deleted (a message meant for others?)

OTTAWA – The CRTC will not try to go to the courts to force compliance and instead has threatened to strip the interventions, submissions, oral presentations, research and other supporting documentation made by Netflix and Google from the public record of its recent TV Policy Review because the companies continued to refuse to provide specific information.In a letters dated September 29 and addressed to Google’s Canadian public policy and government relations counsel Jason Kee and to Netflix’s director of global public policy Corie Wright, (pictured in a CPAC.ca screen cap, below), the Commission said the companies’ refusal to provide supporting...