Easy money for doing nothing? Try specialty TV channels: John Doyle column

Globe and Mail columnist John Doyle takes on the (as he might say) specialty channels racket.
Excerpts:
"I draw your attention to a report in this great newspaper the other day on the matter of the Bell Media-owned Book Television channel. The owners have approached the CRTC asking for permission to change the nature of Book Television’s programming, away from its mandated coverage of writing, books, authors and publishing, and toward “more attractive programming,” which would mean “…the scheduling of drama programming based upon the printed word.”
"My first reaction was this: Hello? Excuse me? Does Book Television still exist? Apparently it does, loitering in the nether regions of digital cable . . "
The whole column