Rogers calls fee-for-carriage "unfair", "bad public policy"

TORONTO - Canada's television industry is not in crisis, Rogers told Parliament's Heritage Committee in Ottawa on Monday. Encouraging the Committee to evaluate CTV and Canwest’s broadcast assets “as the sum of their parts, not as though each segment were a standalone business”, the cable giant argued strongly against the notion of fee-for-carriage which has been advocated by conventional broadcasters CTV and Canwest."Fee for carriage would set up the worst of all public policy solutions, a two tier taxation system,” said Phil Lind, vice chairman of Rogers Communications, in an announcement. “Those who subscribe to cable or satellite would pay...