Sun News must be available to all cable and satellite customers, CRTC says

The CRTC says cable and satellite companies must give their customers the option of subscribing to any Canadian news service they want, either in bundles or a la carte, no later than next spring. Thursday’s announcement means upstart news services such as Sun News Network must be available to all cable and satellite subscribers by May 18, 2014. The move comes after the CRTC last summer rejected Sun News Network’s bid for mandatory-carriage status, which would have forced cable and satellite companies to carry it on all basic digital and analog services.