No new regs, for now, as impact of over-the-top players "inconclusive", says CRTC

OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC’s much ballyhooed fact-finding exercise into on-line and mobile broadcasting has produced “inconclusive results”, the Regulator said Wednesday.Spurred on by the industry, the Commission launched a month-long investigation in May into over-the-top video options and on-line broadcasting services available to Canadians, and their impact on the Canadian communications system. It even extended its deadline for submissions at the behest of the On-line Broadcast Working Group, a group of some 35 senior private sector executives from the country’s distribution, telecommunications, broadcasting, production and creative sectors.The CRTC said that the responses filed did not contain “any clear evidence” though did...