In 2010, Montréal, Québec-based Quebecor Media Inc., owned by Pierre Karl Péladeau (PKP), who is also president and CEO of Quebecor Inc., and Sun Media Corporation, was applying to the CRTC, then under the direction of Konrad von Finckenstein, for a "special CRTC-granted status" that would give "Sun TV News" a "'mandatory" cable deal'". Mallick reported that, according to Péladeau, without this concesssion, the channel would "collapse". This much sought-after special status would mean the mandatory inclusion of "Sun TV News" in "one tier, or cable package".