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"Pick-and-pay will come down to a promotional pit fight."

Jonathan Paul;

“We know that some channels won’t make it,” said Phil King, president of CTV, sports and entertainment programming at Bell Media, on the future of specialty TV during the company’s media day prior to its 2015 Upfront presentation. “Everyone has four or five [channels] that won’t survive, or will be what they used to be. That’s the way CRTC wants to run it, so we’ll try to win.” Shots fired.


The fight for specialty channel survival