OTTAWA – The CRTC has pushed back the date of the hearing to investigate vertical integration by six weeks.
In a notice on Thursday, the Commission said that the revised hearing date is June 20, 2011 (formerly May 9), and that the new date for interventions and comments is April 27, 2011 (formerly March 7). The move comes in response to a request from CTVglobemedia to accommodate its trip to Hollywood in May to shop for U.S. programming for the upcoming television season.
The Commission also said that it wishes to discuss two additional matters at the hearing:
– the composition of the regulated basic service in the context of an increasingly vertically integrated world; and
– what specific measures, if any, should be contemplated to take into account the particular situation of smaller independent broadcasting services.
