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COVID has created a CanCon crisis, and Corus won’t waste it: CEO 

Briefs | 09/15/2020 5:37 pm EDT

The production slowdown stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns has created a crisis for Corus Entertainment Inc. in terms of meeting its CRTC-mandated Canadian programming expenditures (CPE), and according to CEO Doug Murphy, it is a crisis the company “is not going to waste.”

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