The federal government signalled today that it would be the final judge of whether Canada's conventional broadcasters would be allowed to charge cable and satellite companies a fee to carry their signals. Heritage Minister James Moore took the unusual step of inserting himself into the contentious fee-for-carriage debate by ordering the federal broadcast regulator to hold a separate set of hearings to consider consumer interests on the matter. The CRTC confirmed that it would do so in December. Shortly thereafter, it must provide Ottawa with a wide-ranging report on what fee for carriage could mean to consumers' already-strained pocketbooks.
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