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CRTC should adopt “back-stop” approach to regulating specialty TV: Cogeco lawyers

Broadcast | May 21, 2004

Two Cogeco Inc. lawyers are calling for an overhaul of the way specialty TV channels are regulated by the CRTC, which has up until now made decisions, they say, that have created an unfair "specialty service caste system." Yves Mayrand, Cogeco’s VP of corporate affairs, and Caroline Dignard, director of legal affairs, argue that it is time for the CRTC to adopt a "back-stop" approach to regulating specialty channels.

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