{"id":36733,"date":"2012-01-25T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=36733"},"modified":"2012-01-24T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T07:01:00","slug":"crtc-chairman-konrad-von-finckenstein-has-left-the-building-leonard-katz-expected-to-take-helm","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/crtc-chairman-konrad-von-finckenstein-has-left-the-building-leonard-katz-expected-to-take-helm","title":{"rendered":"CRTC Chairman Konrad von Finckenstein Has Left the Building; Leonard Katz Expected to Take Helm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/cpt11186355_20110927131422_14180_Provincial_09-28-11_3BJD1FQ_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>Konrad von Finckenstein, the chairman of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, has officially left the building.&nbsp;His five-year term at the CRTC expired yesterday and there is no one yet designated to fill the role.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is anticipated by many that Leonard Katz will take over as interim replacement today, though the position would be as temporary as possible. Leonard is currently vice-chairman of telecommunications for the CRTC.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>Konrad&#8217;s time as chairman was turbulent, facing the controversial issue of Wind Mobile&#8217;s foreign financial backing and the infamous usage-based billing fiasco. Canada&#8217;s wireless industry has been under heavy scrutiny over the past few years, making the&nbsp;CRTC&#8217;s&nbsp;role arguably more critical than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/canada\/23916-crtc-boss-out-job\" target=\"_blank\">Pawel Dwulit \/ CP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Konrad von Finckenstein, the chairman of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, has officially left the building.&nbsp;His five-year term at the CRTC expired yesterday and there is no one yet designated to fill the role.&nbsp; It is anticipated by many that Leonard Katz will take over as interim replacement today, though the position would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":36735,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-36733","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/36733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/36733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/36735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36733"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=36733"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=36733"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=36733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}