Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  The only thing that is of value to a radio station is that which attracts an audience that we can sell to advertisers. The process of transferring from one computer to another computer is of no value to us. It's just something we have to do so we can do the thing that has value.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  It's hard to listen to this discussion about fairness and balance, and talk about what happens in reality inside a radio station. Radio stations are like any other business. We have more than one computer. On what we're really talking about here, the music director's computer int

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Sure, a number of comments, but I'll try to limit it to a few. First of all, as far as the record companies are concerned, it strikes me as absurd that when they were having those billion-dollar-plus profits, they were doing that through the record airplay that we were providin

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you, Sylvie. Mr. Angus, no one can dispute that Canadian radio supports Canadian artists. We've made careers for hundreds—

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  With due respect, though, your suggestion that we should play more Canadian content music and not play what's best for our audience and ignore a proper programming of our station so that we can overcome this inequity that's being put in front of us seems hardly logical.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  There are markets that are served in British Columbia. I have access to talk to the managers on a regular basis in my capacity with British Columbia Association of Broadcasters, and some of those markets and some of those operators struggle. This money is important. These are bro

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  What we're saying is that the increased payments, that have increased year over year, that are going out, are causing some of those operators to now look at their operations and go, “Can I afford to be in this business?”

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you, Sylvie. My name is Brad Phillips. I'm responsible for the 22 Astral radio stations in British Columbia, and manager of the Vancouver cluster of stations, Virgin Radio and AM 650. I've been privileged to work in the Canadian broadcasting industry for over 30 years in