How’s that pick-and-pay thing working for you so far? In my household, we have just discovered that if we have the temerity to opt for skinny basic, our cable provider will be charging us $25 for a digital box it had just recently started offering us for free. And that’s before we even begin considering channel options.
Forcing pick-and-pay on the broadcasting distribution industry was a bad decision from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, a piece of ill-conceived populism that did not, in the end, make any difference to the election prospects of the departing Tories and won’t actually save consumers much money – but still has the potential to do damage to the Canadian television industry without ever addressing the hard decisions that need to be made about broadcasting regulation.
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KATE TAYLOR – Globe and Mail – March 04, 2016.
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