Radio / Television News

OTA hearing pushed back to November

GATINEAU – So much for our idea of just “getting on with this.”The CRTC today announced that we will be starting all over again on the fee-for-carriage file and the hearing into group based licensing for television companies and other issues will now begin on November 16th rather than on September 29th.In Latin, the proceeding will examine “de novo” (that means, “brand new”, or “of new” or “from a new beginning”...) “the establishment of a framework for the negotiation of a fair market value of the conventional and distant television signals carried by cable and satellite providers,” reads the CRTC...