Future of Canadian TV

[waldo]

Waldo, why do you choose to be ignorant? I provided you many articles on neo-liberalism. It's funny that you constantly blather on about Harper yet you have no clue what neo-liberalism is. Oh, the irony I tell ya....the irony.

no - the irony is you couldn't define a neo-liberal/neo-liberalism in your own words... you had to keep throwing out links to lengthy articles... articles you didn't have word one to say anything about. Do you think I was actually asking you for information sources? Do you mistake me for one of your fictional students?

now quit derailing this thread with your ongoing stalker act!

[socialist]

no - the irony is you couldn't define a neo-liberal/neo-liberalism in your own words... you had to keep throwing out links to lengthy articles... articles you didn't have word one to say anything about. Do you think I was actually asking you for information sources? Do you mistake me for one of your fictional students?

now quit derailing this thread with your ongoing stalker act!

What's the need for defining it in my own words? Neo-liberalism is an ideology hell-bent on privatizing everything while giving corporation hue breaks. Are you all for giving corporations bigger tax cuts, waldo? You are starting to come across as phony.

[overthere]

Neo-liberalism is an ideology hell-bent on privatizing everything while giving corporation hue breaks.

I thought that wasd neo-conservatism. I am so confused.

In any case, I demand the government stop giving hue breaks to anybody, nobody should get a discount on colours.

[Guest]

I thought they were sending them for vacations in Vietnam!

[Boges]

I think you are all nuts. This convo is incomprehensible now.

This is more entertaining.

The truth is, without automatic carriage from cable providers Canadian TV, as we know it, is doomed.

[overthere]

I thought they were sending them for vacations in Vietnam!

It's an OUTRAGE!!!!

(sorry I was channeling Mulcair and/or any NDP backbencher for just a sec there)

[Boges]

So the CRTC wants Youtube to give them the records of what Shitteh Youtube videos I watch. Bleep them!

[bush_cheney2004]

Lacking compliance with CRTC demands for supporting data, they reportedly will ignore Netflix and Google....will not be in their report.

Gee...this is exactly what Netflix and Google wanted....to be ignored by the CRTC...mission accomplished !

[overthere]

Personally, I'd enjoy watching the CRTC try to ensure that we all watch 30% Canadian content on the Internet.

[Boges]

Personally, I'd enjoy watching the CRTC try to ensure that we all watch 30% Canadian content on the Internet.

The CRTC will be sending out demands of Canadians viewing habits to xhamster and pornhub next.

[overthere]

The CRTC will be sending out demands of Canadians viewing habits to xhamster and pornhub next.

Good point.

It creates some real dilemmas on Can Con. For example, is Pamela Anderson Canadian content? I know she was born in Canada, but she is at least 40% composed of pure silicon. That silicon is manufactured by the Dow Corning Corp, HQ in New York state.

Does she qualify as Canadian under CRTC regs? Big bucks hinge on this kind of puzzle.

[bush_cheney2004]

Netflix probably doesn't know how many Canadians are actually using its service because so many spoof their IP addresses to get access to the U.S. version. There are services that legally do this for a small fee, like this one (Unblock-Us.com):

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/how-to-get-american-netflix-in-canada-2014-02-18

The more things change, the more things stay the same. Twenty years ago, Canadians were using satellite dishes and cheater boxes to get U.S. content:

Despite Rules, Canadians Use Satellite TV Dishes

Viewers watch US channels; Canada's own system stalled

By Fred Langan, Special to The Christian Science Monitor

May 22, 1996

TORONTO — As many as 150,000 Canadian households are illegally watching satellite television originating in the United States. The law they're breaking is Canadian - part of the nation's heavy regulation of the TV industry....

Edited October 2, 2014 by bush_cheney2004

[On Guard for Thee]

Netflix probably doesn't know how many Canadians are actually using its service because so many spoof their IP addresses to get access to the U.S. version. There are services that legally do this for a small fee, like this one (Unblock-Us.com):

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/how-to-get-american-netflix-in-canada-2014-02-18

The more things change, the more things stay the same. Thirty years ago, Canadians were using satellite dishes and cheater boxes to get U.S. content.

For the comedy shows. Then when it came to news it was back to CanCon.

[Michael Hardner]

Gee...this is exactly what Netflix and Google wanted....to be ignored by the CRTC...mission accomplished !

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crtc-to-netflix-since-you-won-t-co-operate-we-ll-ignore-you-1.2781748

CRTC to Netflix: Since you won't co-operate, we'll ignore you

Canada's broadcast regulator is hitting the "delete" button on Netflix and Google, telling the online video services their submissions at hearings into the future of television will be ignored.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission wrote to the companies Monday, saying it will remove presentations made by the two companies from the public record.

This comes off as a very badly played bluff by the CRTC. I wonder what happened behind the scenes here.

[bush_cheney2004]

So what happened to all the roof "frying pans" in Canada after this happened ?

'Grey' satellite dishes illegal: top court
CTVNEWS.com Staff

Fri. Apr. 26 2002 10:11 AM

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that so-called "grey market" satellite dishes that pick up foreign-based satellite signals break a federal broadcasting law.

The judgment is a victory for Canadian satellite providers, such as Bell ExpressVu, and will likely lead to an eventual ban on the dishes owned by almost half a million Canadian homes.

The court ruled in a 7-0 ruling Friday that the U.S.-based satellite providers violate the Radiocommunication Act that outlaws unauthorized decoding of an encrypted signal.

[guyser]

So what happened to all the roof "frying pans" in Canada after this happened ?

Not worth going after.

Same as the Yanks that would bring and/or take home from the cottage . Happened all the time .

[overthere]

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission wrote to the companies Monday, saying it will remove presentations made by the two companies from the public record.

So they will rewrite history because they do not like to hear what they have been told?

Let's get rid of these clowns.

[cybercoma]

You know the writing is on the wall when Margaret Wente is talking about cutting the cord. It must also be snowing in hell since it's the only column of hers I can ever remember agreeing with, while still finding her writing to be absolutely nauseating. Give her some clicks. She needs to pay her bills somehow.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/article20884087.ece

[Guest]

I always liked Margaret Wente, whenever I was reduced to reading the Globe and Mail. A voice of reason and common sense, I thought.

[Michael Hardner]

I always liked Margaret Wente, whenever I was reduced to reading the Globe and Mail. A voice of reason and common sense, I thought.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/09/24/globe_disciplines_margaret_wente_over_plagiarism_accusations.html

The state of newspapers is so bad that the Globe didn't even fire her after they found her to have plagiarized.

[Guest]

I didn't know that. Maybe I should find out who she plagiarized and read them.

[bush_cheney2004]

U.S. heavy hitters are ready to put the smack down on "pick 'n pay":

Some major U.S. television networks say they'll pull out of Canada or consider streaming all their content online if a proposal to unbundle Canadian cable packages and let customers pay for a few select channels goes ahead.

...Under current rules, U.S. content creators like Viacom and others usually sell the rights to broadcast their shows in Canada to Canadian networks. Known in the industry as BDUs (broadcast distribution undertakings), Canadian networks then make money from those deals by selling ads on the Canadian broadcasts of those shows, and getting cable customers to sign up for large, diverse cable packages that include channels that air those shows.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/u-s-tv-networks-may-abandon-unbundled-canadian-cable-for-online-1.2791568

Edited October 8, 2014 by bush_cheney2004

[overthere]

Some major U.S. television networks say they'll pull out of Canada or consider streaming all their content online if a proposal to unbundle Canadian cable packages and let customers pay for a few select channels goes ahead.

Yippee!!

Those major networks are the very channels I'd like to see off my bill as I never watch them. The Yankee ones I do watch like HBO and other specialty channels already are more or less unbundled.

[bush_cheney2004]

Looks like the CRTC is having a busy week. After watering down CanCon requirements, it has now defined what "skinny basic" cable packages will look like. Amazingly, the foreign "4+1" (U.S.) network broadcasters remain part of the mix, despite the fact that many local broadcasters are already providing U.S. content.

...That new cable package is capped at $25 a month and will consist of local stations and mandatory channels, such as APTN, TVO, CPAC, educational channels and accessibility channels, with the option to include up to four American "affiliate" channels (NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox), plus PBS.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/crtc-rules-cable-companies-must-offer-pick-and-pay-channels-25-basic-package-1.3001370

[On Guard for Thee]

Lets hope this will wean Canadians off Fox (faux) news once and forever. I guess its like CRTC taking out the garbage.