New pay licenses a zero sum game, says Cassaday

TORONTO – While acknowledging he speaks from the position of a regional monopoly, Corus Entertainment CEO John Cassaday doesn’t think the CRTC should license other analog pay TV services.Cassaday was speaking as part of a broadcast panel with CHUM Limited CEO Jay Switzer and Alliance Atlantis executive chairman Michael MacMillan at the BMO Nesbitt Burns Media and Telecom conference which concluded Wednesday in Toronto. Earlier this year, four companies applied for new pay TV licenses from the Commission, looking for carriage requirements like the existing pay services Movie Central, owned by Corus, and Astral Media’s The Movie Network. “They will...