New entertainment channel for Rogers, Colba.Net Telecom expansion, among new broadcast applications

OTTAWA – Rogers Broadcasting’s request for a new entertainment channel called The Entertainment Desk is among 12 new broadcasting applications that the CRTC will consider at a hearing set for June 7 in Gatineau. The Commission made the new applications public on Tuesday. Other applications of interest include one from MOTV Média Inc. for an English-language category B service to be known as PIN – Positive Insight Network, and three from Colba.Net Telecom Inc. for regional broadcasting licences to operate terrestrial BDUs in areas of Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. The deadline for...