Less than 48-hours after Canadian broadcaster CTV asked the broadcast regulator, the CRTC, to approve CDN$5.5 million (US$4 million) previously earmarked for docs to instead finance drama, it withdrew the proposal. The reason: doc-makers spoke up. 'We were prepared to go to the [CRTC] and scream bloody murder,' says Sandy Crawley, national exec. director of the Documentary Organisation of Canada.
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