Further Reading

Pick-and-pay: A ‘sea change’ is coming for Canada’s TV viewers The CRTC is holding crucial hearings to examine ways to increase the satisfaction for Canadian TV watchers. But broadcasters are warning that the choices must be made carefully or they could risk decimating a domestic industry

Google, CRTC chief spar over calls for online regulations Google and other Internet broadcasters press to keep content unregulated in Canada, saying it would set a ‘dangerous precedent’

Quebecor blasts CRTC’s ‘regulatory straightjacket’ placed on broadcasters CEO makes case against treating traditional and Internet television as separate entities, urges CRTC to lighten the regulatory burden on broadcasters

Bell warns pick-and-pay options will result in higher costs to consumer Slimmed-down basic TV package, commitment to local programming would require new source of revenue, broadcaster tells CRTC

Rogers says pick-and-pay hurts business Media giant advocates for an adjusted method that would keep popular U.S. networks in basic cable

CBC executives tell CRTC it can no longer afford to be free Declining ad revenues have pushed the public broadcaster to ask for cable and satellite companies to pay a fee for carrying its signals

Netflix, CRTC spar over regulation, customer data Video streaming service operates unregulated in Canada