CRTC clears MLSE deal, orders increased benefits to sports programming
News | 08/16/2012 8:47 pm EDT
The CRTC has ordered BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. to spend $7.5 million over the next seven years to help finance independent sports-related programming, nearly doubling the value of tangible benefits the two companies proposed in their $1.32 billion acquisition of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE).
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