SHAW/CANWEST: Industry urges caution, more tangible benefits, as CRTC prepares to examine purchase

By Lesley Hunter

CALGARY – When the CRTC dives into the proposed purchase of Canwest Global's TV assets by Shaw Communications next week, many industry stakeholders are asking for asking for safeguards and urging the Commission to be prudent.(Cartt.ca editor and publisher Greg O'Brien will be in Calgary next week covering the hearing. For live updates, follow him on Twitter via @gregobr and surf back to Cartt.ca regularly.)The $2 billion deal, which would make Shaw the largest vertically integrated media company in Canada, for now, appears to have the cautious support of many, as long as certain conditions - often described as “competitive safeguards” - are attached. Shaw's primary Western Canada...