Post Tagged with: "crtc"

Oda Announces Broadcast Study

Canadian Heritage Minister Bev Oda has announced that the government is commissioning a major study on the future of television and radio regulation.  Oda claims that "other nations began to build the policy framework for the new digital world decades ago.  Unfortunately Canada did not."  It would be interesting to […]

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June 12, 2006 1 comment News

CIRPA at the CRTC

While I have posted on CRIA’s performance at the CRTC, MisterBryans points out that CIRPA’s executive director was simply embarrassing in responding to a question on making commercial radio more multicultural.

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May 19, 2006 Comments are Disabled News

Don’t Tell Stephen Harper

More from the CRIA appearance before the CRTC: "COMMISSIONER ARPIN: Mr. Henderson, as you know, the Commission is trying to apply national rules and that means that the same standard will apply in French Canada as in English Canada. Have you thought how the smart 40 percent will work in French […]

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May 18, 2006 3 comments News

Then and Now

CRIA's appearance on May 15th before the CRTC this week featured some remarkable changes in position from its filing on March 15th.  After emphasizing that CRIA was only representing the interests of the big four major labels at the hearing, CRIA President Graham Henderson showed just how much difference three months can make in  discussing CRIA contributions, Cancon, and FACTOR funding.

Consider:

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May 18, 2006 3 comments News

CRTC Radio Review Needs to Dial In New Frequency

My weekly LawBytes column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) focuses on the CRTC's Commercial Radio Review.  I argue that missing from the debate is any real vision about how public policy goals to promote Canadian artists and encourage a diverse, financially successful commercial radio market can be adapted to an […]

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May 15, 2006 5 comments Columns