CRTC commissioners will need to brush up on their math skills to figure out how much carriage fees will actually cost consumers, as well as how much BDUs pay for distant signals and generate from local avails. For anyone attending this week’s BDU and specialty hearing, it seems very few of the numbers add up.

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