CRTC rejects Sun News Network’s request to be carried on basic cable

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OTTAWA (NEWS1130) – The CRTC has rejected Sun News Network’s request to be carried on basic cable.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission says the upstart network does not meet the criteria for a mandatory distribution order.

The CRTC says the bar is set very high for such an order.

Sun News Network went on the air in April 2011. Three months ago, Sun News executives told the commission that anything short of mandatory carriage would spell the end of the channel.

Last year, it lost $17 million, a situation parent company Quebecor calls clearly unsustainable.

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