Many conditions attached to Rogers’ TV license renewals (its control over HNIC on CBC makes it a “de facto” network, for example)

By Steve Faguy

GATINEAU - Rogers has been left quite a regulatory pile of laundry to sort through with its license renewals announced Thursday. And, the company was told "no" a lot.The CRTC has renewed the licences of most Rogers-owned television services until 2016, but though it’s a short-term renewal (at Rogers’ request, so it lines up with the licence terms of the other major English-language broadcasters), the decision makes a lot of changes to how Rogers will operate, particularly in light of its $5.2-billion deal for rights to National Hockey League games.The biggest change in the decision is that Rogers’s services will...