Radio-Canada should be made to step-up on children’s programming, Quebecor says

By Ahmad Hathout Quebecor executives said Wednesday that Radio-Canada, the French-language version of the CBC, should be made to step-up on producing children’s programming because it has become economically difficult to do so for private broadcasters. The company’s vice president of public and regulatory affairs told the five-member CRTC panel in response to a question about how to sustain the delivery of children’s programming that the public broadcaster -- which is already required by the CRTC to broadcast a certain number of hours of kids programming -- should pick up where private broadcasters have failed. “We hope the mandate of...