The CRTC Wants to Hear From You
As part of the ongoing deliberations around the fee-for-carriage hearings, the CRTC is asking for comments from Canadians on the affordability of local TV, access to local programming and other issues.
To this end the CRTC has set up a web site where you can submit your views. The comments will form part of the public record on the issue and some of them will be included in a special report for the government.
The issue seems to be of great interest to Canadians, to date the CRTC and other third party site have received nearly 200,000 comments. The majority of these came via the antagonistic campaigns Stop the TV Tax and Local TV Matters.
As the web site says “we are studying whether local television stations should be able to charge cable and satellite companies for distributing their programs.”
They even put together a YouTube video
The site will be open for comments until December 20th.
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Yes isn’t it lovely: the CRTC wants to hear from Canadians. Goodness graciousness. Anything but do what the commission is charged with doing on a regular basis: looking after the interests of Canadians in the face of an industry gone wild. The CRTC needs to readjust its mandate from catering to CanWest and CTVgm, Telus, Rogers and Bell, to actually minding the store (that being the public airwaves which we all own).
Please leave the local tv alone we don’t need anymore tax we are paying enough for the service.Thank You.
ok…can you hear me?
Stop abdicating your role and start protecting the Canadian consumers’ interests.
fogcutter: RTFA – this is not the CRTC website.