Re: A Question About Global Ontario
> Isn't Global in Ontario restricted by the CRTC to showing
> the same programming and same commercials on owned stations
> across the entire province and that individual Global-owned
> stations in that province cannot break away from the
> "regional" feed for local programming (news or otherwise)
> and commercials??
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Currently the license for CIII-TV Paris does not have a provision for split-fed programming to its transmitters. That should be changed though.
> One other comment: If my memory serves me correct,
> three-fourths of Ontario's population (and one fourth of
> Canada's total population) lives within a 75-mile
> (120-kilometer) radius of the CN Tower. Thus, if Global
> Ontario is restricted to showing the same programming and
> commercials province-wide, it would make the best business
> sense for them to be Toronto-centric, for that's where
> three-fourths of their viewers are.
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Of course it makes business sense, but not only are they licensed to Paris, but what happens in Toronto is irrelavent to viewers in Northern Ontario, Ottawa, or Windsor. They really should split the license, and have CIII-TV-41 as a program undertaking along with CIII-TV Paris. The Paris station would be operated out of Kitchener and serve the entire province in the interim, until such time that additional stations could be added in Ottawa, and so forth.<P ID="signature">______________
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> Isn't Global in Ontario restricted by the CRTC to showing
> the same programming and same commercials on owned stations
> across the entire province and that individual Global-owned
> stations in that province cannot break away from the
> "regional" feed for local programming (news or otherwise)
> and commercials??
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Currently the license for CIII-TV Paris does not have a provision for split-fed programming to its transmitters. That should be changed though.
> One other comment: If my memory serves me correct,
> three-fourths of Ontario's population (and one fourth of
> Canada's total population) lives within a 75-mile
> (120-kilometer) radius of the CN Tower. Thus, if Global
> Ontario is restricted to showing the same programming and
> commercials province-wide, it would make the best business
> sense for them to be Toronto-centric, for that's where
> three-fourths of their viewers are.
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Of course it makes business sense, but not only are they licensed to Paris, but what happens in Toronto is irrelavent to viewers in Northern Ontario, Ottawa, or Windsor. They really should split the license, and have CIII-TV-41 as a program undertaking along with CIII-TV Paris. The Paris station would be operated out of Kitchener and serve the entire province in the interim, until such time that additional stations could be added in Ottawa, and so forth.<P ID="signature">______________
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