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Senators add audience interest in broadcasting act objectives which could ease discoverability concerns

Senators voted to add a clause in Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, to state that Canada’s broadcasting policy goals must “reflect and be responsive to the preferences and interests of various audiences,” which Canadian Heritage department officials said could interact with discoverability requirements.

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Keep CanCon requirements for Rogers community radio, FRPC tells CRTC

The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) told the commission to keep a 40 per cent Canadian content requirement baked into the condition of licence for a Rogers Communications Inc. radio station in Edmonton, Alta.

“What Rogers has failed to demonstrate is how reducing the level of Canadian content will improve CHBN-FM’s performance, given Rogers has also said that one key cause of its station’s financial performance is the global pandemic,” the intervention, signed by FRPC’s executive director Monica Auer, states.

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