There are three major environmental forces that influence Canadian broadcasting industry these days. One of those key features is the technology. Continuously evolving technology has been a significant impact on policies and regulatory changes of CRTC. The development of advanced technologies, such as digital technology, are able to replace the delivery of broadcast service from an analog mode to a digitally equipped, universal addressable transmission. The commission once acknowledged that the broadcasting system is currently …
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…place, the logic of that technology begins to play itself out within the context of further policy. Therefore those changes due to advanced technologies must be committed to the regulatory framework of Canadian Broadcast Act so that Canadians continue to have maximum access to Canadian programming services. After all, given that we are firmly in the clutches of the technological imperative, we must understand the fundamentals of technology, both the possible and the unavoidable consequences.