Rogers "Entertainment Desk" specialty bid nixed by CRTC

OTTAWA - The CRTC has pulled the chair from “The Entertainment Desk” in denying Rogers Communications bid to launch a Category B entertainment news channel. The ruling comes even though the Commission received no interventions, not even from E! the closest potential competitor owned by BCE. Rogers applied for a broadcasting licence to operate a national, English-language niche specialty Category B service that would be devoted to entertainment news and the entertainment industry back in February. In its submission, Rogers contended that its proposed channel would not directly compete with E! since that service covers “all aspects of the entertainment...