| Post 11 made on Thursday March 12, 2015 at 18:00 |
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Quebecor was instructed to relinquish their O-T-A licence by the CRTC because Sun News Network was considered a specialty channel. Because the CRTC refused mandatory (category C) coverage with an $0.18 per subscriber fee, SNN was only available in about 40 percent of the country. You could argue either way on whether the free market place worked in this case. Quebecor could have negotiated a lower carriage fee which would have increased its presence, the subscription fee was their primary source of revenue as apposed to advertising because SNN was expected to be viewed 24/7 by the same viewer. On the other hand, I'm not a fan of the KGB government determining what channel airs where and by how much.
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