TORONTO – Not to be left out of the current fee-for-carriage debate, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting has asked the CRTC to consider re-regulating cable’s basic rates, and to ensure that any signal compensation costs can not be passed through to subscribers.
In a submission to the Commission earlier this week, the self described independent watchdog for Canadian programming also proposed that satellite distributors be allowed to charge FFC costs with no mark-up until such time as they achieve a 10% PBIT.
“This compensation should be allocated nationally based on population and linguistic composition”, the submission reads.
The group also proposes that the compensation should be allocated among the local conventional broadcasters based on total tuning to Canadian programs in each market during the preceding broadcasting year.
