Rogers must chip in for LPIF, says CRTC

OTTAWA – Rogers Communications must make its share of payments in to the Local Programming Improvement Fund (LPIF), the CRTC has ruled.After sending preliminary invoices to Rogers that excluded its regionally licensed systems with fewer than 20,000 subscribers, the LPIF administrator sent a revised invoice to Rogers on April 1, 2010 that included those systems. Rogers refused to pay the contributions for the regionally licensed systems with fewer than 20,000 subscribers, arguing that it met the exception for contributions, and asked for a Commission decision on the issue.The CRTC determined that payment exceptions provided applied only at the licensee level and...