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Broadcasters want policy direction on C-11; streamers want their algorithms left alone

News | 09/15/2022 7:51 pm EDT
44.5% of under-30 households don’t have TV: report
(Stock photo via Pxhere).

Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies both big and small, told Senators studying the government’s efforts to update the Broadcasting Act that they would like to see a draft of the policy direction that will shape the CRTC’s implementation of the bill, though not at the expense of delaying the bill any further. 

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