Cable / Telecom News

New company doesn’t belong: Rogers

TORONTO – Characterizing it as an unnecessary middleman, Rogers Communications has told the CRTC it objects to any license being granted to Only Imagine Inc. The company – which is now just an application before the Commission and a web site – wants to sell the two minutes per hour of local availability ad time supplied to cable and satellite operators by American cable channels like CNN, A&E, Golf Channel and others, into the Canadian marketplace and turn over a large portion of the profits to fund Canadian drama.The applicants – former broadcasters Drew Craig of the former Craig Media and...