Prime Time in Ottawa 2014: Wrestling with the choices coming, or not, to the Canadian television broadcasting system

By Perry Hoffman

OTTAWA - Integrating digital and traditional television platforms, leveraging international financing, and giving consumers choice in their TV services. These were some of the major themes explored during the first panel session at the Canadian Media Production Association’s annual Prime Time event in Ottawa which featured executives from the production, distribution, and programming sectors, all of whom have their own, often differing, views on what needs to be done to the system.It was agreed, though, that the broadcasting sector must take a longer term view and decide where it wants to be in three to five years, rather than just...