Canada's TV industry could 'face extinction': Peladeau

[B00Mer]

CANNES, France - Pierre Karl Peladeau, president and CEO of Quebecor Inc., told an audience of international entertainment content leaders on Monday that the Canadian television industry must be positioned globally or it could "face extinction."

Peladeau gave a speech, entitled Positioning Canadian Content in a Global Digital World, at the annual TV and entertainment market in Cannes, France, called MIPCOM.

Instead of focusing solely on producing local programming, Canada's TV industry should be developing more TV concepts that it can export around the world, he said.

"If we still want vibrant Quebec and Canadian TV industries in 20 years, we have to start developing strong, original concepts that will be popular across platforms and across markets," Peladeau said.

Peladeau said that exporting television concepts is the only way for the country's TV industry to become recognized internationally and for it to generate the revenues necessary to maintain strong, healthy domestic TV markets.

The country's TV producers, networks and public funding bodies must share the risks and rewards of developing TV concepts, he said.

"We need to reorient our funding infrastructure from being strictly locally focused to also being export-focused," Peladeau said, "with networks taking a stake in the productions they develop and becoming true partners with production companies."

He added that the country's regulations and funding systems need to become more flexible to accommodate the technological changes facing the TV industry.

Peladeau told the audience that two trends in particular are threatening the country's current TV business model. The first is that the country's funding systems rely on politicians and taxpayers who aren't "feeling particularly generous these days," he said. The second worrisome trend, he said, is the fact that the way TV is watched and distributed is evolving.

"Obviously, an ecosystem based on declining funding and antiquated regulation is ripe for a major upheaval," Peladeau said.

source: Canada's TV industry could 'face extinction': Peladeau | Canada | News | Calgary Sun

 

[ShintoMale]

Canada don't have a TV industry they are repeater stations for American networks

 

[Cannuck]

List of English-language Canadian television series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[B00Mer]

List of English-language Canadian television series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Personally, I do not get 1 single Canadian channel in my household and I live in Calgary..

I have DirecTV and Los Angeles for locals.. past that, I don't want Canadian TV. I just don't find enough entrainment in Canadian TV..

So if "Canadian TV" disappears, oh well..

I used to watch one series when I lived in Langley, Arctic Air, but decided when I moved to budget, $14/mo for one program was just not worth it.

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[taxslave]

As long as we have lackluster taxpayer financed MOther corp. and the enforcement arm called CRTC calling the shots Canadian TV really does not stand a chance.

 

[Bar Sinister]

Technology seems to be pushing the change in television. With internet based programming increasing exponentially it won't be long before the creators of TV programs won't need the networks anymore. At that point viewers wordwide will be able to choose the programs they prefer and ignore the current networks entirely. It really has nothing to do with what agencies like the CRTC want or do not want, and a great deal to do with what people want. That does not, of course, mean commercial programs will cease to exist, it simply means that they will be internet based. Interstingly, government sponsored rogramming such as that found on the CBC, BBC, ABC and so on will have an equal chance. All it requires is the ability to find an interested audience.

 

[Liberalman]

If one looks at the programming on specialty channels on cable TV there is the duds and the studs. Program distribution companies charge a lot of money for older programs and the cost of producing original programs cost more money and making simple programs are boring like watching community TV.

The audience wants to see quality programming and advertising companies want to see bigger audiences.

Canadian production houses produce high quality original programming but the American market is willing to pay more just because of their larger demographics.

With the increase of our patriotism is a good signal to start making more Canadian content programs.

The shrinking of production equipment and more sophisticated technologies, programs can be produced at a cheaper cost.

With more channels coming on TV and the internet there is a high demand for original programs and Canada should be filling the demand.

 

[Nuggler]

No more FOX NORTH ?? 8O The horror!

No more Ezra Levant ?? OMG !! 8O

Where will Stevo get his "facts" ??

 

[In Between Man]

Maybe Canadian Television deserves to be extinct. I heard that back in the day there was Canadian game show that gave away chocolate bars as prizes. What the heck was that all about? You serious?

 

[tay]

TV is pretty limited in it's offerings worldwide.

The only thing worth watching is the CBC,PBS,and TVO for the documentaries and BBC World for news. CBC has shows like Marketplace which are very good.

The CRTC allowing CTV to buy my local station has me not watching my local station anymore because their local coverage has diminished.

I am eagerly awaiting the local cable company (robbers) to comply and offer with the CRTC ruling that it offer customers to 'buy' what stations they want to watch.

I've got my six picked so if they ever offer that package I would return to cable.



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[Machjo]

The feds could cut funding for the television industry and provincial governments could increase funding for universal compulsory education to include the learning of trades and professions in high school, which could include some involving the TV industry. This would be a more indirect subsidy to the industry by training the skilled workers we need.

Let's remember too that Canada has a small population so we should not expect to produce as much quantitatively as the US for example.