SUPER BOWL DECISION: Court says Bell’s appeal was too soon; company will try again

Time is tight though as CRTC took 19 months to issue orderA FEDERAL COURT of Appeal decision released Friday said no to Bell Media’s request to strike down the CRTC’s decision to ban the simultaneous substitution of the broadcast of the Super Bowl.The court did not say whether it thought the policy decision was correct or not, but only, essentially, that Bell Media (which owns the rights to the broadcast in Canada through the 2018-19 season) appealed it too early. The company launched its case in May 2015, four months after the CRTC notice that it would be banning simsub...