Cable / Telecom News

Townsend out as CEO of CCSA

QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – Alyson Townsend is no longer CEO of the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance.The board of directors of the alliance of independent network operators made the announcement to staff on Friday and to the rest of the industry on Monday. Many who communicated with Cartt.ca Monday afternoon were surprised to hear Townsend and the CCSA had parted ways.She had been CEO since 2001 and joined the organization in 1994 when it was founded to do what it still does today: combine the efforts and numbers of multiple independent operators across the country into one cohesive voice in order to...