Charlie Angus at the Canadian Heritage Committee

On March 25th, 2009. See this statement in context.

March 25th, 2009 / 4 p.m.

NDP

Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I'm very pleased to have you here. What brings us here I think is the issue that's facing our local and regional television services. We want to make sure that whatever decisions are made through the CRTC have the best benefits of our regions in mind.

I'm looking at one of our stations in crisis, Windsor A-Channel. Twenty-five percent of the houses in Windsor receive their television through satellite, so they can watch A-Channel Victoria, Ottawa, or Barrie, but they cannot watch A-Channel Windsor. How does A-Channel Windsor compete when 25% of the houses in its market can't access it?

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