No One Watches The CBC – The Solution…
Canadian actors made a case for new media funding at a hearing today before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
The performers helped kick off the first day of hearings on regulating online content by urging the CRTC to make Internet service providers follow the same rules as television and radio broadcasters and protect Canadian content online.
“This is a battle for the future. What we want is a place for Canadian storytellers and our stories,” said Richard Hardacre national president of ACTRA, the union representing 21,000 English-speaking artists across all media platforms. “We want to share our talents with Canadians and with global audiences. We need to get it right now. Tomorrow is too late.”
“We say, regulate broadcasting on the Internet, because it’s just another platform.”
What a crock ‘o sh*t… They don’t want to share their talents. They want to force their lack of talent on us. And have us pay for it by force.
Here’s a better idea – make stories that people want to hear. Quit subsidizing garbage like Little Mosque on the Prairie.
Learn to stand on merit. It worked for the wine industry.
February 17th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
The trough feeding crowd from ACTRA is at it again. No one watches the ten-thousandth remake of Anne of Green Gables, or attends their artsy-fartsy exhibits of contemporary art. No one listens to the navel gazing hum-drum on CBC radio and no one attends their oh so avant-garde stage presentations. So this gang of leeches has latched on to the latest scheme to extort money from the Canadian public. It’s not bad enough they collect a tax on every CD and DVD sold in this country or that they constantly suckle at the government udder, they now want to penalize us all for content that none of us view. The ACTRA idiot on CTV today tried to hand us the BS that the tax would be paid solely by the internet service providers and not passed on to the public. It’s bad enough that they want to pick our pocket, but they now insult our intelligence. How about this: the ISPs can charge a fee for any Canadian site that is provided by them. If you don’t pay they block every site that has Canadian content. That way people like me can tell them to shove it and I’ll live with only content from other countries.
February 17th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
As much as I am a proud Canadian, I oppose a tax on Internet service. I do think that Canadian broadcasters and production companies need to promote programs that Canadians will want to watch. Also, if imposed Canadian broadcast companies may think of ways to promote their stations from outside the country. Instead of ctv.ca, we’ll have ctv.ru or ctv.cn instead.