Two Canadian TV Networks threaten to close

Liberalman

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CTV and Canwest are at it again. They are threatening to abandon conventional TV because they are forced to provide Canadian content for the Canadian markets.

CTV’s licence is up for renewal in April and they are threatening the CRTC, which is the Canadian Radio and Television Commission or a federal government-regulating agency for broadcasters and they are threatening to get out of the conventional TV or free television for people that are not on cable or satellite for a fee.

CTV is ready to cut the news morning news local programs of all their newly acquired A Channels TV stations located in Victoria, London and Barrie Ontario. Which means a loss of more than 100 news people.

Canwest and CTV wants to pressure the CRTC into changing their minds on the issue of charging cable TV for conventional TV signals and their reasons are that because of the economic downturn advertising dollars are drying up and they need all the revenue they can get.

This last point for fees for a signal they have a valid point because any cable subscriber can tell you that there is a fee for those channels.

I looked on Rogers Cable TV and their fees start at $39.00 for their basic channels per subscriber when you multiply that by 500,000 plus subscriber base that Rogers has and this is not counting other cable TV companies that is a lot of money and the TV networks should get some of that money and Canadian content can be saved again.
 

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