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No ‘trafficking’ involved in purchase of digital licences, Alliance Atlantis tells CRTC

News | 08/02/2001 4:00 am EDT

Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc has rejected suggestions from Canada’s broadcast regulator that its purchase of Salter Street Films Ltd earlier this year constituted "trafficking" of a broadcast licence. The film producer and specialty channel broadcaster is in the CRTC hot seat as it seeks approval to acquire the must-carry Independent Film Channel and 20 Category 2 licences that were awarded to Salter Street.

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