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Response to the President of the CBC/Radio-Canada
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nResponse to the President of the CBC/Radio-Canada\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prntac{\nTEXT-ALIGN: CENTER\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResponse to the President of the CBC/Radio-Canada\nCanada NewsWire\nMONTRÉAL, May 25, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMONTRÉAL, May 25, 2016 /CNW Telbec/ - The Presidents and CEOs of three private Québec broadcasters – Sébastien Arsenault (Groupe Serdy), Maxime Rémillard (Groupe V Média) and Julie Tremblay (TVA Group) – have released the following response to recent comments made by Hubert Lacroix, President and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada:\n\nIn a speech delivered in Vancouver yesterday, excerpts from which had already appeared in a Montréal daily, Hubert Lacroix, President and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada, mischaracterized our position as a desire to keep the public broadcaster locked into the status quo. \n\nIn fact, we are not advocating the status quo but, on the contrary, a thorough review of CBC/Radio-Canada's mandate, as part of the comprehensive review of Canada's broadcasting system announced by the Minister of Canadian Heritage, in the course of which we plan to propose concrete, constructive solutions to the issues facing our industry.\n\nAs we have already pointed out, if there is no accountability for the additional $675 million that CBC/Radio-Canada is slated to receive, the already precarious balance between the public broadcaster and the rest of the industry will be destroyed. As no accountability measures have been announced thus far, we cannot help but fear that this funding will be a blank cheque for CBC/Radio-Canada to step up its already ferocious competition against private broadcasters.\n\nWith all due respect to Mr. Lacroix, the public broadcaster's maneuvers since the last budget seem to bear this out. \n\nWe have been astounded by the number and substance of Radio-Canada's program announcements, of which there have been more than 30 in recent weeks (see appendix 1).\n\nThere seem to be no constraints on the public broadcaster's quest for ratings: it is announcing big-...