Should Canadians be required to spend $3 per year for the Weather Channel?
The Weather Network is in danger of being taken off the air as a basic service. The CRTC is ruling on this issue very shortly, and is accepting public consultation. I wrote the CRTC in support earlier in the year, though a new call has been put out by the company operating the weather network. Below is a letter which was sent out to all those who wrote to the CRTC last time. Friday, February 27, 2009 Dear Weather Network Viewer, In the past many of you have written the CRTC, the federal broadcasting regulator, to support the continued distribution of The Weather Network as part of the basic service offered by cable and satellite companies. We want to make you aware that we have reapplied to the CRTC, to continue to be made available to all Canadians as part of the basic service of satellite and cable distributors and to ask for your support once again. Previously, the CRTC has identified which TV services should be part of basic service. But the CRTC has decided in the future to let ca
