1534 ET - Rogers Communications says it welcomes the "swift and decisive" action from Canada's Liberal government to order the country's broadcast regulator to revise its online-streaming decision. That decision would have increased the level of financial contributions from both online streamers and domestic, over-the-air broadcasters toward Canadian programming. Rogers said the streaming decision "would have introduced complicated and onerous new expenditure quotas with no meaningful relief to Canadian broadcasters." Rogers says the current media landscape that domestic broadcasters face requires a reduction "or the elimination of mandatory financial contributions and inflexible expenditure requirements." Those spending requirements are linked to Canadian programming for French-speaking, indigenous and other minority-language audiences. (paul.vieira@wsj.com; @paulvieira)

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