Canadian Heritage committee  Over the air through American cable. If somebody doesn't want our programs, and doesn't want to pay for our programs, and we have paid for exclusive rights, then he should not be able to get those programs for free from somebody else.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for your question. We look at the Internet as being as much an opportunity as it is a problem, but we started with the problem, so let me deal with that first. Obviously, there are only 24 hours in a day, and we all have only so much time. Time that might have been sp

Canadian Heritage committee  We try to use it as a complementary tool. Obviously, we're not involved with Facebook or YouTube or other kinds of social networking sites. There are basically three types of Internet use: there are the social networks; there are functional sites, such as Google, where you go i

Canadian Heritage committee  We did know about this a long time ago and we've been raising it fairly consistently to the regulator over the last three or four years. We think the solution is more than one revenue stream. Our revenue stream in conventional is just advertising, and in specialty there are two r

Canadian Heritage committee  If that was the cause of the problem, I would agree with you. But as I tried to explain in our presentation, those investments have been our salvation, not our problem. I'm not here to be critical of anyone, not of the satellite or cable people. I'm just saying that we have a pro

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't think so. I have to be precise here. The fund you refer to was designed to enable incremental local programming. The problem we have right now is that we can't pay for the programming we're doing. There are discussions going on to try to change the focus of this fund, but

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I think the money should be used to support local programming. That's what the fee-for-carriage should be doing, because that's what we're trying to protect and save and build here. Second, the opting out thing is a very interesting idea. If somebody decided he didn't want t

Canadian Heritage committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee and committee staff. My name is Ivan Fecan. I'm president and chief executive officer of CTVglobemedia and the CEO of CTV. Thank you for the invitation to discuss a matter that is vital to the social fabric of Canada: th