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UPDATED: Business as usual as CRTC ponders vertical integration


OTTAWA – As the CRTC continues to sort through the potential impact of vertical integration, it offered a clarification to its original continuation of service notice.The Commission said Tuesday that it has amended paragraph 2 of Broadcasting Regulatory Policy 2011-415 as follows (the changes are in bold):2. The preceding determinations shall remain in effect until 30 days following the publication of the Commission’s decision in the above-noted proceeding. The Commission clarifies that affected broadcasting distribution undertakings and programming undertakings are not precluded from renegotiating the rates, terms and conditions or any combination thereof of pre-existing distribution agreements during the effective period of...