Must-offer status prompts Sun News to renegotiate carriage agreements
Media | 12/19/2013 10:14 pm EST
The CRTC is granting must-offer status to Canada’s national all-news specialty services and will require broadcast distributors to offer those channels on a standalone basis, though not necessarily in “news neighbourhoods,” the commission said.
In a decision Thursday, the CRTC said it will require broadcast distributors to make five Canadian all-news channels available to all of their subscribers by March 19. Those services are Quebecor Media Inc.’s Sun News Network and
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