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By Bob Reaume, Vice President, Policy & Research, ACA We thought we had a pretty good story. Newsworthy, even. But, as the saying goes… the best laid plans… It was September 19th and the very last day of the CRTC’s public hearing on the future of TV in Canada appropriately called “Let’s Talk TV.”

On Friday, September 19, ACA presented at the CRTC ‘Let’s Talk’ hearings, along with CMDC (Canadian Media Directors Council). The hearings were designed to explore the current broadcasting environment and review possible approaches for a revised framework for television in Canada.

By Bob Reaume, Vice President, Policy & Research, ACA Canada’s broadcast regulator, the CRTC, is having a really good look right now at how the television system operates in this country with its upcoming hearing, “Let’s Talk TV”. Advertisers have a lot at stake. That’s why the ACA invited the Canadian Media Director’s Council to […]

By Bob Reaume, ACA It’s a question that all clients must ask themselves this summer as commercials are being readied for air in the fall. As of September 1st, 2014, all advertising commercials, sponsorship messages and promos broadcast on television stations in Canada must be aired with closed captioning for the hearing impaired.