The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission said the key part of Rogers’s $26-billion takeover of Calgary-based Shaw can go ahead, with conditions that include paying more than $27 million into funds that support Canadian programming, adding journalists to Citytv stations and guaranteeing it will distribute at least 45 independent English- and French-language services. (The Logic)

Talking point: The broadcast regulator does not have sway over the parts of Shaw’s business that offer internet or mobile-phone services; approval for those elements of the deal rests with Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne. He’s said he won’t allow Rogers to take over all of Shaw’s wireless licences, so it is reportedly in talks with Globalive and Xplornet about selling Shaw’s Freedom Mobile unit. A House of Commons committee advised in a unanimous report this year that the whole deal should be blocked.