Senior CRTC staff question whether the failure of new broadcast players to get wide distribution of their Category 2 channels might lead to their demise. In a paper presented at the New Developments in Communications Law and Policy conference in Ottawa on April 26, Martine Vallée and John Traversy note that with a couple of exceptions, the Category 2s of existing specialty broadcasters have wide distribution, while those operated by companies new to broadcasting tend to have limited distribution.