Shaw Media’s application to launch a Global BC-driven all-news channel in B.C. is more about scrambling for bandwidth than providing a new news outlet, a Simon Fraser University marketing professor said.
“There are pressures to control more bandwidth and bandwidth for TV is the creme de la creme and can easily be converted later to an Internet feed,” Lindsay Meredith said. “In the end, you can turn that into all kinds of different feeds. Down the line you have some flexibility ...”
Shaw Media announced its application to the Canadian Radio-Television Communications Commission yesterday. The as-yet-unnamed specialty channel will operate out of Global B.C.’s newsroom and is expected to launch this summer.
The channel’s final format is still being discussed, but it will provide headline as well as contextual news, and an evening prime time talk show hosted by veteran Global BC anchor Jill Krop, said Kenton Boston, Global BC station manager and senior director of Global national news who will be responsible for content on the new channel.
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