XPost: can.internet.highspeed, can.general   
   From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   Geoffrey Welsh wrote:   
   > Canuck57 wrote:   
   >> On the flip we have other channels, not local, specialty, movie, home,   
   >> science, hisory and they all get a cut.  Rogers/Shaw does pay them. But   
   >> Shaw/Rogers can drop them too.  There is no right of access.   
   >   
   > I thought that some (paid) cable-only channels were designated "must carry."   
   > If I recall correctly, at one point there was some discussion over whether   
   > The Weather Network should be designated must carry.   
      
   Here is a novel idea for the CRTC, why not just let the consumer decide?   
      
   No real reason other than politics why you can't visit a web page, see   
   the costs and select the channels (local or not) and decide which ones   
   you want.   
      
   The reason they don't is channels that provide what we want would get   
   more of the take and the filler channels would get less.   
      
   Weather, I could get that of the intenet.  It has adverts, so free   
   because I would not subscribe.   
      
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