Friday, January 12, 2007

Shaw pulls millions out of Canadian TV fund

Jim Shaw is pissed. I agree with him.
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Deirdre McMurdy, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Thursday, January 11, 2007

Jim Shaw is ticked off.

The CEO of Shaw Communications is tired of subsidizing the CBC. He's frustrated by spending five per cent of his company's annual revenues on television programs no one watches. He refuses to pay broadcasters a fee-for-carriage of their signals as well as part of the freight on their production costs. And he's prepared to blatantly breach CRTC regulations to make his point........

..... the rest here.

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