Rerunning a good idea: Re-setting local rights part of massive conventional television overhaul

WITH THE ENTIRE TV industry in turmoil, all of us supposedly pondering structural reform while audience fragmentation proliferates as the economy sputters and advertising budgets shrivel, everyone is wondering what Canadian television should look like in the 21st century. (Ed Note: We first ran the following piece on March 16th and now that the OTA license renewal hearing is complete - and having been disappointed by the dearth of new ideas over those many, many days - we decided to take a page out of the OTA business model and rerun it. To us, this is the type of dramatic re-thinking of the Canadian...