Radio / Television News

Too many specialties under one roof and other CanWest/AA complaints


OTTAWA – It's not just the creative side of the industry that objects to the purchase of Alliance Atlantis by Goldman Sachs and CanWest Global (and even the directors and producers aren't totally united on that front).The Association of Canadian Advertisers, while giving their blessing to the merger of CanWest's and Alliance Atlantis' substantial TV properties, also sounded an alarm, saying that even though a bigger, more robust CanWest will be much better positioned to compete with CTVglobemedia, there may now be too many individual specialty services under just two corporate umbrellas. In its submission to the CRTC in advance...