Media business "thrives on the illusion of predictability", says CBC's Stewart

TORONTO – The future of the TV business is near impossible to predict, no matter how many studies are done and consultants are paid to help guide media companies as they march into that future. That was a piece of the message delivered Tuesday at the Broadcast Executives Society luncheon by its featured speaker, Kirstine Stewart, the CBC’s executive vice-president of English services. We all want to be able to predict the future, to accurately see where the media business is headed in the short and long term. “Consultants trade on their ability to tell us where we’re going next,...