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Is There a Fix for Broken TV?

The Ottawa Citizen reports on the Canadian broadcast industry and the recent CRTC hearings.

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March 16, 2009 Comments are Disabled News
CRTC New Media Hearings – Day Ten: Quebecor, MTS Allstream, CAIP, RipNet, Barrett, Bell, and Telus

CRTC New Media Hearings – Day Ten: Quebecor, MTS Allstream, CAIP, RipNet, Barrett, Bell, and Telus

The final day of the CRTC New Media hearings featured more discussion from ISPs, including Quebecor, MTS Allstream, CAIP, RipNet, Barrett Xplore, Bell, and Telus.  Due to some scheduling difficulties, we are only able to provide a link to the CRTC transcript of the hearing.

Update: Greg O'Brien, the publisher and editor of the terrific Cartt.ca, has kindly offered to have his coverage of the day posted here. Thanks Greg.

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March 13, 2009 5 comments News

Angus Reid Surveys Find Public Against New Media and File Sharing ISP Levies

Angus Reid Strategies has released two polls that find that the Canadian public is opposed to proposed new ISP levies for new media content creation and for file sharing.  80 percent of people surveyed said that a possible new CRTC levy on ISPs to pay for Canadian new media content […]

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March 12, 2009 5 comments News

CRTC New Media Hearings – Day Nine: Astral, Rogers, Cogeco, Shaw, CTV, CCSA

On Tuesday, the Commission conducted hearings with leading broadcast and telecom companies including Astral Media, Rogers Communications, Cogeco Cable, Shaw Communications, CTV GlobeMedia, and the CCSA. The lively discussion focused on the ISP levy, with strong opposition to the levy and even the hearings themselves. The following review was compiled by University of Ottawa student Yael Wexler.

 

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March 12, 2009 8 comments News

CRTC New Media Hearings – Day Eight: ON Min. of Culture, OMDC, ACA, Pelmorex, Stornoway, Score, NHL

Day eight of the CRTC new media hearings were held on Monday with a strong focus on funding Canadian production in the morning and the impact of the wireless gatekeeping in the afternoon.  Our coverage has been delayed, so I'm linking to the CRTC transcript of the day's discussion instead.

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March 11, 2009 Comments are Disabled News