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VI Observations: The skinny idea’s being skinned; how Corus sees linear & small ‘casters need ratios

OKAY, WE’LL ADMIT IT. Sometimes it does get a little difficult in maintaining one’s attention on the fifth day into a CRTC hearing.The questions, and quite often the answers, grow more similar as minutes turn into hours, turn into days. Those repeated questions and answers, though, do tend to allow followers of the hearing to divine just what the commissioners and the industry are aiming for. If you read between enough lines, maybe you can even predict, a little, what’s coming.***************WE’VE ALREADY EXPLAINED what the primary topics are during our extensive coverage of the CRTC’s vertical integration hearing, which wraps...