I am neither an engineer nor a technician, but I will try to sum up our position.
There was much debate during the hearing on the transfer of ownership of the TQS Network. One of the fundamental issues of that debate was whether or not to support changes that were considered by some to be absolutely necessary and by others, to be needless or detrimental to the quality of information.
I do not want to get into the debate surrounding TQS, in which we had an ownership stake?? and which we sold off at the same time as did CTV, which was our business partner.
However, I can tell you that, as a shareholder, we determined that it was no longer possible to come up with a functional business model for the future, given the heavy, conventional studio production structures that are in place today.
In our view, news programs, and particularly local news programs, must be created using lighter production, broadcasting and news gathering structures. Some will see this as a step backward, but we consider these changes to be inevitable.