Antonia Zerbisias of the Toronto Star offers an opinion on the new Canadian media reform movement:

• Let’s not put up with this any longer
  “Yesterday’s first order of business was to organize a grassroots campaign to get Canadians to write to the CRTC by July 18, the deadline for its September hearings on media concentration and diversity. You can bet big media interests will be well represented and their submissions well covered. But what about the public interest? “

Tamsen Tillson of Variety reports on CTV vs Global:

• Canuck webs battle for sked bread
  “Industryites attending the Global and E! upfront will have to step around placard-waving Canadian thesps like Wendy Crewson who, with their union ACTRA, are planning to protest the amount of U.S. fare the private broadcasters are allowed to buy while purportedly hanging Canadian drama out to dry. The union also handed out leaflets at the CTV event.”

Grant Robertson of the Globe and Mail reports on the new challenge to the Canadian Television Fund:

• Shaw demands ‘radical change’ in CTF
  “Mr. Shaw has said the money could be put to better use. Though it has spawned some Canadian success stories, such as Trailer Park Boys and Little Mosque on the Prairie, which received $2.8-million and $2.5-million respectively last year, much of the money is being wasted on ‘shows nobody watches,’ he has said.”

Patricia Bailey of Playback talks to the head of the CTF:

• Shaw attacks CTF, again
  “‘The letter is a major surprise,’ [Douglas] Barrett tells Playback Daily. ‘We are doing our best to operate on a status quo basis pending the results of the CRTC review. Those bylaw amendments are all housekeeping. Nothing substantial is changing. Our procedures and practices are the same now as in previous years.'”