On August 31, 2020 the Ottawa Citizen published an opinion by Al MacKay, Chair of FRPC’s Board of Directors, about the current impasse between the CRTC and CBC: the CRTC wants to proceed with and hear the applications CBC filed last fall, while CBC recently told the Commission that it could not provide any updates to its pre-Covid 19 financial and programming plans until 2022 at the earliest.
The Forum’s suggestion?: the CRTC should use the January 2021 hearing now scheduled to consider CBC’s licensing applications, to develop a policy for Canadian public broadcasting.
Find the op-ed at: https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/mackay-we-need-a-public-hearing-about-the-role-of-cbc