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Will Netflix and others file financials with the Commission along with RODO et al?

OTTAWA – New media broadcasting undertakings affiliated with Canadian broadcasters must begin to report financial information to the CRTC starting next year.After calling for comments on reporting requirements for new media broadcasting undertakings (NMBUs) back in February, the Commission said Friday that revenues and expenditures from NMBUs that are affiliates of licensed broadcasting undertakings will be sent out in the first quarter of 2011 for the 2009 broadcasting year, and will be required on an annual basis going forward.An example of an affiliated NMBU would be Rogers On Demand Online, a broadband service in which Rogers Cable or Wireless customers can...