CRTC, Heritage and CBC must do more to promote linguistic diversity: OCOL
News | 01/19/2009 8:46 pm EST
The CRTC, Canadian Heritage and the CBC are not doing enough to ensure that minority Francophone and Anglophone communities are benefiting from original home-grown programming, according to the Commissioner of Official Languages (OCOL). Appearing before the CRTC Friday, Graham Fraser said as a first step, the CRTC should have DTH providers carry all local CBC stations and introduce financial incentives for new media content.
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