TV POLICY REVIEW: Dropping the 12-minute limit as TV reaches a "tipping point"

CANADIANS NEED TO PAY MORE for their TV, according to additional submissions to the CRTC on its conventional television policy review. Filed last Wednesday three months ahead of the November 27th hearing, we could only plough through a few submissions at first, but having had a bit more time to read some more, it's clear that TV distributors are in tough against many players who want to see wholesale subscriber fees paid to conventional broadcasters. CTV, Quebecor Media (owners of TVA and Videotron), the Canadian Media Guild, ACTRA, and the Canadian Coalition of Audio-visual Unions all said they were in...