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Tait defends Tandem initiative at CRTC hearing

News | 01/18/2021 11:20 am EST
CBC president Catherine Tait on Parliament Hill in April 2018./ Photo by Andrew Meade.

On the final day of the first week of  CBC/Radio-Canada‘s license renewal hearing before the CRTC, CBC executives Friday defended the broadcaster’s branded content initiative Tandem, pointing to what they called “guardrails” put in place after the initiative was put on a pause following public criticism in the fall. 

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