Streamers must contribute to news because they are pulling money away from it: CAB

By Ahmad Hathout Foreign streamers should be made to put money toward Canadian news funds because they are drawing money that used to go to support it out of the system, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) argued on the first day of the CRTC’s hearing on the definition of Canadian content in the audio-visual space Wednesday. “What the foreign streamers have been able to do is to come in and ... take revenues out of Canada,” Kevin Desjardins, president of the trade group that represents the big private broadcasters, told the five-member CRTC panel about the advertising and subscriber...