The TUESDAY INTERVIEW: APTN CEO Jean LaRose talks about the challenges of an independent broadcaster

IF THERE’S ONE THING distributors don’t like, it’s being told what to do by the CRTC. As we saw during the April hearings into broadcast distribution undertaking and specialty service policy, cable companies don’t like linkage rules or must-carries or carriage restrictions or much of anything else they “have” to do. Cable altogether opposed the licensing of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network as a must-carry, 91(h) channel in 1999, but the Commission still licensed it as a channel which all distributors must carry as a basic service. APTN is one of those channels that furthers the goals of the Broadcasting...