Super Bowl Simsub battle: NFL urges federal government to sack CRTC decision

“Arbitrary and discriminatory”WASHINGTON – In a letter to the Canadian Ambassador to the United States, the National Football League has taken the unusual step of asking the federal government, through its top diplomat in the U.S., to prevent the CRTC order suspending simultaneous substitution of the Super Bowl broadcast, from coming into effect.Banning simultaneous substitution of the Super Bowl, annually the most-watched single TV show in Canada, was announced in January of 2015 as one of the first decisions to come out of the CRTC’s Let’s Talk TV process. Every year, some Canadians complain to the CRTC that they can...