Why calls for new conditions on broadcasters must be rejected

By Perry Hoffman

This is not another new policy reviewGATINEAU – Canada’s major broadcasters say that a time when consumers have more TV viewing choices resulting from new flexible channel packaging rules and the continued inroads from exempt (often foreign) platforms, the CRTC must resist adding to the regulatory restrictions already imposed on their programming services.The comments come as the Commission wraps up the written phase for this fall’s licence renewal hearing for the country’s major English- and French-language broadcasting groups.Many interveners have called for more stringent regulation of the large broadcasters. They relate to a number of different issues, including Canadian Programming...