Pay/specialty services up for license renewals on April 23

OTTAWA - More than 85 pay and specialty services will be up for license renewals when the CRTC begins it hearing for license renewal of independent conventional, pay and specialty television services beginning April 23 in Gatineau, Quebec. The license renewal includes applications of independent pay and specialty programming services as well as the applications of the independent conventional television stations whose licences expire on August 31, 2013. As part of its examination of these applications, the Commission will consider the licensees’ various requests with respect to their regulatory requirements (e.g. conditions of license, local programming requirements, Canadian programming expenditures,...