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CRTC clears MLSE deal, orders increased benefits to sports programming

Broadcast | August 16, 2012

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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