CRTC imposes cross-media ownership restrictions
The CRTC has brought in new regulations to restrict cross-media ownership as a way of ensuring a diversity of editorial voices in the same market.
The broadcast regulator said on Tuesday that, in future, a person or entity will be permitted to control only two of the three types of media outlets — radio, TV, or newspapers — in a single market.
In other words, a media group that already owned a local radio station and a local television station would likely have to sell one of those broadcast outlets if it wanted to buy a local newspaper in the same market.
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January 17th, 2008 at 10:52 am
This may play a role in perhaps getting the Green Party included in the Leader’s Debate in Canada. Perhaps by making it a condition of purchase?