Comments on: Get Ready For The Great Canadian TV Wealth Transfer

By: TJS

TJS — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:23:57 +0000

What I find funny with those ads they have two from the two sides of the debate back to back. First an ad against the new tv tax sponsered by bell and rogers, then the next add all for the new tv tax sponsered by ctv, a-channel etc. Bell happens to own ctv and a-channel stations so what exactly are their motives here? They are running non-stop ads for and against this new tax at the same time. I believe bell and rogers are purposfully trying to destroy the over the air free networks so eventualy everybody has to pay for their satellite or cable, but I don’t know what they are up to playing both sides on this.

By: gimbol

gimbol — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:53:47 +0000

My question is if I ever decided to rent a hall, put a big screen in it and charge a nominal fee for folks to watch a program, but never “share” a portion with the network or cable company that aired said program, how long would it be before the local ocnstabulary would show up with a court order to drag me off?
I’ll further qualify that this wouldn’t be in the Caledonia Ontario area where court orders are meaningless.

By: FoxtrotBravo

FoxtrotBravo — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:08:21 +0000

“So instead of trying something novel like retiring our ancient anchors and creating programming worthy of wasting an hour watching …”

Bingo. The Canadian networks have the same tired old boring news readers for decades: are they union employess? Do they own their jobs? Why would anyone even go into media in Canada when the dinosaurs can’t be retired? The US networks are always fine tuning their people to the right mix, keep it interesting, and and to give the consumer what they want: not here though. In Canada, it’s take it or leave, and most of us have chosen the latter.

By: Lori

Lori — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:43:47 +0000

It’s not just the poor content. TV simply not relevant any more. It’s a medium with no future. There’s nowhere for it to grow – it can only shrink.

And shrink it must. All that time that people use on the Internet – playing games, surfing, on social sites, blogging – that time used to be TV time. The Internet offerings are ever changing, while TV has nothign new to offer.

In our house the TV cable was disconnected 7 years ago, and we almost never miss it. I know many parents who have done the same. The standard line in our house is “TV makes you stupid”. And I don’t know anyone who doesn’t believe this to be true, to one degree or another.

When the current generation grows up, most will not consider TV a significant part of their lives. As the oldies who grew up on TV die off, the medium will shrink drastically, or more likely vanish altogether.