CRTC raising required cash contributions from online streamers for Cancon
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Large online streaming providers like Disney+, Netflix and Prime Video will be expected to contribute more of their revenue to Canadian content, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission announced Thursday.
Cancon rules for streamers tripled
- Canadian regulator triples US streamers' financial contributions to Canadian content ABC News —
- CRTC says streamers must pay three times as much for Canadian content CTV News —
- Canada triples US streamers' financial contributions to Canadian content Associated Press —
- Major Studios Slam Canada For Slapping “Discriminatory Investment Obligations” on U.S. Streamers The Hollywood Reporter —
- CRTC issues formal Canadian content rules for streamers, raises programming funding requirement The Globe and Mail —