Quebecor redirects community TV funding to TVA, prompting resignation

By Steve Faguy MONTREAL — Quebecor has cut funding for MAtv, Videotron's community channel in Montreal, by 45%, prompting an anglophone member of its advisory committee to resign in protest. Fortner Anderson, a local artist, said he can "no longer in good conscience" remain on the committee because the latest cuts "will substantially alter and reduce the benefits MAtv provides to the English language community of Montreal, and because they will diminish the vitality of that community." The 45% cut is the result of Quebecor's decision to take advantage of an allowance the CRTC gave large vertically-integrated companies in 2016....