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Globe says BCE wants penalty on Rogers's NHL app

2014-10-22 08:13 ET - In the News

Also In the News (C-RCI) Rogers Communications Inc

The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition the NHL season has barely begun and BCE is already facing off against Rogers Communications over how Rogers is using its broadcast rights. The Globe's Christine Dobby writes Rogers struck a 12-year, $5.2-billion deal for the NHL rights last November. Now BCE is now crying foul, arguing in an application to the CRTC that Rogers is offering an array of new camera angles on its GamePlus mobile app, including one from the referee's helmet, only to Rogers customers. BCE argues the app offerings violate CRTC rules, which require that content created for television must be offered to competitors. BCE argues the additional viewing options available on mobile devices only to Rogers customers gives its wireless and Internet businesses an anti-competitive advantage. The application primarily targets GamePlus, an app tied to Rogers's NHL GameCentre Live streaming platform. Anyone can subscribe to the GameCentre streaming service, but only Rogers clients can access the GamePlus app. The CRTC's rules for vertically integrated players (companies that both create and distribute media content) bar media owners from withholding content from their rivals.

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