``This deal is done,'' said Stuart Langford, a commissioner with the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission. ``It's highly unlikely that anyone would tolerate us just saying no.'' He spoke at a hearing in Gatineau, Quebec.
``We are not in the business of killing deals,'' Konrad von Finckenstein, the CRTC's chairman, said at the hearings in response to a request to postpone a ruling on the acquisition until the CRTC updates its rules. That would cause a ``tremendous loss of value.''
Please sir, can we have some more? (money for Canadian programming, I mean.) 50% of the advertising market should come with a price, n'est pas?
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Well, that took a lot longer than I thought...um....yeah...
Is more money for Canadian programming even on the table?
You know between this and the Canada Council's recent shafting of Canadian Theatre companies to get more money into the hands of the Opera and Ballet, it's starting to look like there's a concerted push underway to put Canadian drama to sleep.
i would have to agree. I hear a lot from actor friends up North about how there's so little funding for home grown tv and that most of the business is actually US productions that come up for tax breaks and locations (Smallville etc). they say that it's so bad that you really have to make a name for yourself elsewhere (ie, NYC or LA) to get noticed most of the time. real pity.
course it also explains why home grown shows aren't as hip and zippy looking as American ones. that stuff takes $$$$$. If I had a spare bucks I'd seen them up that way if I could. But I don't so I can only send good thoughts. but when I do . . .
I've given up trying to suss this out from the CRTC and other government web sites, so maybe you or your readers can tell me:
EXACTLY what are the current requirements for CanCon from terrestrial networks like CTV and Global right now?
I had been under the impression that it was still 8 hours per week of "priority programming", even including shite like 'eTalk Canada'. Since neither seems to be coming close, I was wondering if they had changed the regs yet again?
Or had the CRTC just lost all it teeth?
The CRTC never flexes its muscle; it's theatre, not regulation. They won't even attach performance conditions. In two years both CHUM and CTV will feature less Canadian made programming and probably no drama.
Cancel your cable.
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