'What are you trying to achieve?" CTV boss asks CRTC

Via the National Post's Full Comment:

CTV boss Ivan Fecan is upping the rhetoric level against the CRTC, accusing chairman Konrad von Finckenstein of playing dangerous games with Canada’s broadcast industry.According to the Canadian Press, Mr. Fecan criticized the federal regulator’s suggestion that networks spend as much creating domestic programming as they do on U.S. programming.“What I’m telling you is you are playing chicken with the studios, and the consequence may very well be the end of broadcasting as we know it in Canada,” Mr. Fecan told Mr. von Finckenstein at a special hearing into the state of the industry.“What are you trying to achieve? I’m at a loss to consider why you, Mr. Chairman, who have no skin in this game, why you would play this kind of risk with our business.”

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