Little hearing now, full hearing in 2010 as Commission to consider caps on foreign programming spend

GATINEAU – After seeing the broadcast license renewal applications from Canwest Global, CTV, TVA, and Citytv in all their frightening uncertainty (or so we’re told), the CRTC has decided to push the full hearings back another year. However, it will still tackle the very serious issues facing conventional broadcasters in a hearing on April 27th. In a public notice released this morning, just weeks after the Commission said it was going to “review the scope” of the proceedings, it was determined there are way too many factors and pressures in play right now to possibly decide on new, full, seven-year...