TV REVIEW: Arpin rips Shaw over ads

GATINEAU – After a two-day ad campaign by Shaw Communications that ran in numerous newspapers across the country prior to the company's appearance at the CRTC's TV Policy Review hearing Thursday morning, Commission vice-chair broadcasting, Michel Arpin, opened proceedings this morning by letting Shaw executives know he was not pleased. The ads (which appeared in the Vancouver Sun, Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald, Winnipeg Free Press, Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Victoria Times Colonist – which are all in Shaw Cable territories – as well as the Globe and Mail and National Post) asked Canadians to let the CRTC know whether or not they...