Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Must Own News Channels?
Today's poll question; do you think that the CRTC should force Canadian cable subscribers to buy CBC and CTV 24 hour news channels? I'm not sure how many Canadian realize when they subscribe to cable services that there are certain channels that the CRTC has mandated that they must own and pay for. It is completely fair to demand consumers be allowed to select which networks they would like to subscribe to, and not be forced to pay for something they have no interest in owning. It is also fair to demand that with competing networks that none be given any competitive advantage over another, as in the case of CBC and CTV over Sun TV News. However I don't believe that Canadians should be forced to buy any of them. A negative multiplied by a negative is not always a positive...
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Start canceling your cable and satellite tv and go to the internet. This will force the cbc and ctv to stop trying to shove themselves down our throats. They can take that proposal and shove it up their asses. Thank you for your time.
ReplyDeleteIs there the slightest possibility that with all the support the Avaaz petition is getting from the soros media in Canada, and their complaint about must carry and pay for SunTV, that it could backfire big time. Like the CRTC cancels all must carry channels and networks and make a subscriber only choice, at a price. Wonder how many would buy the cbc or ctv news channels.
ReplyDeleteTV channels should operate the same as newspapers. I wouldn't buy the Toronto Star or the Globe & Mail; I wouldn't take them for free. Why should I have to pay for CBC and CTV when I don't watch them, ever. I'd rather watch an old TV test pattern.
ReplyDeleteIf you live in the gta you can pick up over 20 fta channels in high definition with just an antenna. I have canceled my satellite and done this. I will not re-subscribe until I can buy what I want and nothing else. CRTC - Free my TV.
ReplyDeleteIt should be all or none. It ticks me off that I have to buy "packages" of programs. I could not just get Fox News, I had to pick a whole "news" package.
ReplyDeleteEven then, my provider was threatening to not carry Fox News, I phoned them and told them if they didn't carry Fox News, I was switching, they backed off really quick.
Maybe we should start calling our providers now, and ask them if they plan to carry SunTV. Get them scared about customers walking if they don't. That would be better than a stupid American petition, it would hit them in their pocketbooks. Maybe potential sponsors can be targeted as well, like Ford and GM.
So what is the CBC hiding?
ReplyDeleteAnd what information is Sun Media requesting from the CBC that has landed the CBC in court, up against the Info Commish?
'...the law that allows any citizen to request information from the federal government, its agencies and Crown corporations.'
I want to know where/who kady and Mansbridge wine and dine 'sources' close to the LPC, on my dime,
and how much it cost Canadian taxpayers to fly Hebert, Coyne and Gregg to Vancouver for a 16 minute At Issue segment.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2010/09/15/15362591.html
'how much it cost Canadian taxpayers to fly Hebert, Coyne and Gregg to Vancouver for a 16 minute At Issue segment.'
ReplyDeleteAsk them via email-it would be nice to know. Try it Wilson
Hunter, check your tv guide- to Ch 213-Sun TV. Butr when I tune in to that channel-its blank in fact, there is no 213 channel at all.
Time to call the 'provider' for some answers
Do you know how to read?
ReplyDeleteIs one of the question you put out there. and for fun, I said 'no' because I have a liberal chimpazee that reads for me.