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TV REVIEW: Distributor dissension and Shaw’s offer to buy broadcasters

GATINEAU – If the CCTA was still around, it wouldn't have been able to find consensus among its members for the CRTC's TV Policy Review either. While the schisms among the Canadian Association of Broadcasters members meant that association was unable to come up with a submission containing any consensus among its members, some of whom want large carriage fees for broadcasters, some who want small ones and some who oppose them altogether, fractures of opinion exist in the distributor world, too. Two of the former Canadian Cable Television Association's largest members faced the Commission yesterday with diametrically opposed viewpoints...