Must-carry hearing: Of Timbits and Groundhog Day

By Denis Carmel

GATINEAU – This month the CRTC will provide a report to help the Government figure out the future of video consumption by Canadians, but our CRTC chairman started this week’s hearing by invoking the ghosts of hearings past.Lots may have changed but issues and attitudes remain entrenched. To guess the outcome of a this hearing, you don’t need to look ahead, but back.Not all CRTC hearings are created equal. Some attract national media and generate multiple stories. Others, not so much. The hearing held this week was of primary importance for the applicants, of course, but the odds of major...