Media analyst agrees with Morin that TQS decision could affect whole broadcasting system

MONTREAL – Other conventional TV networks such as Canwest Global or TVA could cry poor in the future to garner regulatory flexibility around their newscasts, according to media and communications analyst Carl Bayard at Genuity Capital Markets “You can bet they are sharpening their pencils right now as a result of this decision,” Bayard stated in a Morning Insight briefing from Genuity Capital to clients. He added, “The Commission seems to want to avoid, at any price, the bankruptcy of an over-the-air broadcaster in Quebec. But the price to pay in order to save a chronic loss-making station comes in...