Netflix is paying off Comcast for direct traffic access. CRTC to strike Netflix, Google testimony from ‘Let’s Talk TV’ record. Speech presented at RTA School of Media, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario. Speech presented at Banff World Media Festival in Banff, Alberta.
Transcript from hearing - CRTC Public process number 2014-190. CRTC Public process number: 2014-190.īell Canada (Bell). Communications & Strategies 92: 43-61.īell Canada (Bell). The television struggle: an assessment of over-the-top television evolutions in a cable dominant market.
Boston Consulting Group, September.īaccarne, B., Evens, T., & Schuurman, D. The impact of OTT on video production around the world. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.Īrthofer, F., Hardarson, A., Kon, M., Lee, E., & Rose, J. CRTC Public process number: 2014-190.Īrmstrong, R. However, Netflix’s refusal to provide the Commission with information it was ordered to produce suggests the most serious disruption is to the notion that online video distribution can or should be regulated in the public interest.Īlliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA). We show that in a reprioritization of values, many of the principles that motivated legacy broadcasting policy are being sidelined by a consumerist approach that gives freer rein to streamed services. Through an examination of public documents, we analyze the ways Netflix is considered an opportunity, ally, or a threat by consumers, broadcasters, independent producers, and governments. In this paper, we analyze Netflix’s strategic expansion and meteoric growth in Canada, and focus on a landmark event in Canadian broadcasting policymaking: the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC) “Let’s Talk TV” hearings of 2013-2014. The rapid encroachment of over-the-top (OTT) content distribution raises policy issues concerning jurisdiction, access, pricing, consolidation of ownership, and source diversity (Holt, 2014), while undermining many of the traditional policy instruments. Media Innovation, Media Policy, Political Economy, over-the-top video distribution, broadcasting Abstractĭigital disruption is often characterized as the conflict between the exponential rate of change in technology, and the slower-paced, incremental rate of change in law, economy, policy, and society writ-large (Franklin, 2012). Communication & Culture, Ryerson University
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