CRTC asks whether it should broaden eligibility, prioritize funding for indie local news fund

Regulator said it believes Corus’s Global should receive ILNF funding By Ahmad Hathout The CRTC is asking the public whether it should modify the Independent Local News Fund (ILNF) to expand eligibility, ensure news quality, and whether it should favour recipients operating in remote and underserved communities. The commission launched Tuesday the consultation on revisiting the ILNF, which was spawned in 2016. It follows the regulator's decision, as part of the Online Streaming Act, to force foreign and standalone online platforms to allocate five per cent of their prior year’s Canadian revenues toward content funds, including 1.5 per cent to...