XPost: can.internet.highspeed, can.general   
   From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   Some Guy wrote:   
   > Canuck57 wrote:   
   >   
   >> Tell you what, these local TV stations have the gaul  With the   
   >> number of adverts, the sucky programming no woner I watch so   
   >> few local channels and not very often.   
   >   
   > Why can't local stations buy and broadcast programs produced by   
   > speciality channels like Discovery, HGTV, Food, etc?   
   >   
   > Or, why can't those speciality networks set up their own broadcast   
   > transmitters?  Imagine that you could pick up the Discovery channel, or   
   > the History channel OTA (over-the-air).  They would have NO local   
   > content.  No 6 or 11 o'clock news.   
      
   Hey, I am all for it.  But the media industry in Canada is regulated to   
   a point of envy by socialist and control freeks around the world.  If   
   you work for media and want to take a crap, you are just outside of   
   having to go to the CRTC to ask permission.   
      
   But for larger country wide stations like History, setting up   
   transmitters in each city is cost prohibitive, especially since the   
   cable companies cut cheques to carry your signal.   
      
   The industry is myered in utter stagantion and CRTC beaurocracy to a   
   point it can't make money to survive.  But the customers, the vieweres,   
   you and I are changing our habits.   
      
   For example, I haven't watched TV news local or national for 10 years.   
   And more are doing like it like me.  I could watch 1 hour of TV news, 25   
   minutes of adverts, 25 minutes of liberal whining and 5 minutes of   
   credits.  Leaving only 5 minutes of real news.   
      
   So I go on line, skip the crap and read the news on line in 5 minutes   
   that takes me 60 minutes of TV to do the same.   
      
   And sorry, the latest family sitcom with a 1950's script replayed   
   doesn't attract me to watch 25 minutes of ads per hour.   
      
   Oh, there are some good programs like W5, 60 minutes, but they don't   
   show when I have the time to watch and over time I stopped watching.   
   Add in I lived in that US for 10 years, where specialty channels abound.   
     PBC, HBC, History (US with F22s and not WW I reruns), Cramer, Rush...   
   at 1/2 the cost and now I have to put up with Canadian cable?  We are a   
   seriously media deprived bunch.   
      
   And Canadianized Discovery is a joke as is Space.   
      
   This industry is a stagnent old whale flopping in the wind.  They need   
   to change or die.  The Internet is replacing it, and they had better get   
   with the plan. Kids today are a complete generation of web enabled end   
   user savvy users that will watch what they want when they want and CRTC   
   and mdia can go to hell if thy think otherwise.  It is why google is   
   rich and local stations are dying.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)