Mr. Colm O'Reilly:

There is a broader macro point around the Future of Media Commission and where all of our models are going to. Fundamentally, a newsprint publisher is now in the audio game because they are investing in podcasting. Does that make us a radio station? No, it does not, but the consumer is taking the journalism in that fashion. We are investing in video clips, in streaming and in video. As a result, the consumer is taking journalism in that individual fashion but it does not make us a TV station.

Senator Dillon asked what are the asks. The big challenge from a legislative perspective is that the traditional demarcation lines between TV, radio and print are breaking down. We are all existing in an area of grey and I think the legislative process has to try to keep up with that. As we look at funding, that key question of what is defined as public service journalism and how it extends right into the reach of our communities, and potentially those communities that have less of a voice, becomes the biggest, most central question for all of us, rather than thinking along the traditional lines that “radio gets this, TV gets this and newspapers get this.” That world is disappearing very quickly.