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CBC Set to "Unplug a Million-Plus Canadians"

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CBC Set to "Unplug a Million-Plus Canadians"

"CBC's future mandate shows that three million Canadians do not
subscribe to cable or satellite and receive their TV signal over the air. Recently, CBC has questioned the viability of continuing to serve this audience outside major urban centres."


Source: CBC set to "Unplug a Million-Plus Canadians"
 
That would be a shame if it happend but if you had to loose a station CBC would be the best choice becouse outside of a handfull of shows there really isn't much there. If they wanted to save money on transmitters they could go FTA (free to air) KU satellite but thats not going to happen, just like some of the PBS stations on satellite are encrypted (which is wrong becouse tax dollars fund those as well).
 
If the CBC wants to save money on transmitters, then they shouldn't be transmitting their French network outside of Quebec and any other Francophone pockets throughout the country. Same with the English network in most of Quebec outside Montreal.
 
M.J. said:
If the CBC wants to save money on transmitters, then they shouldn't be transmitting their French network outside of Quebec and any other Francophone pockets throughout the country. Same with the English network in most of Quebec outside Montreal.
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I think the french CBC runs on a slightly different funding formula, making that a good, but difficult point to agree with. I could be wrong...
 
Steve said:
That would be a shame if it happend but if you had to loose a station CBC would be the best choice becouse outside of a handfull of shows there really isn't much there.
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The Corporation has a mandate to serve all of Canada, not just the biggest cities. Want proof? Look to the Maritimes.

CBC has its own station in each Maritime provincial capital (Charlottetown, Fredericton, Halifax, St. John's). Each of those 4 stations has its own staff and its own news department. In fact, the only local TV news in Prince Edward Island comes from the CBC.

CTV Atlantic has 2 stations in Nova Scotia and 2 stations in New Brunswick. No CTV bureau in P.E.I. No CTV presence in Newfoundland & Labrador.

Global Maritimes is essentially run from Halifax -- no bureau in P.E.I., little if any presence in NL.

M.J. said:
If the CBC wants to save money on transmitters, then they shouldn't be transmitting their French network outside of Quebec and any other Francophone pockets throughout the country. Same with the English network in most of Quebec outside Montreal.
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Any Government that does that would be committing political suicide.
 
chuckydoll said:
Global Maritimes is essentially run from Halifax -- no bureau in P.E.I., little if any presence in NL.
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Global Maritimes has no presence in Newfoundland -- the only aerial choices on most of The Rock is either CBC or NTV; in Labrador, it's practically CBC from St. John's or nothing. I think the only Global offered on cable in St. John's is CITV from Edmonton (maybe also CHAN from Vancouver).

M.J. said:
If the CBC wants to save money on transmitters, then they shouldn't be transmitting their French network outside of Quebec and any other Francophone pockets throughout the country. Same with the English network in most of Quebec outside Montreal.
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Any Government that does that would be committing political suicide.
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And would also be a case of the CBC repeating itself -- remember when they reduced local news and ads in smaller communities in the late-1980s and early-1990s (especially in Windsor, where they closed CBET's news department)?
 
NTV = IS BASICALY GLOBAL NEWFOUNDLAND
ATV = CTV ATLANTIC IS on cable [there is rumours of St. Johns repeater]
 
azumanga said:
... remember when they reduced local news and ads in smaller communities in the late-1980s and early-1990s (especially in Windsor, where they closed CBET's news department)?
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Might be one of the reasons the Tories were turfed in '93. If it isn't one of the reasons it comes awfully close.

The effects are visible to this day: CBC's local websites for Windsor, Thunder Bay and Northern Ontario do not have any local news content.

BTW I didn't check about NTV/Newfoundland before an earlier post. NTV is locally owned but airs CTV's breakfast show, the Global primetime schedule and CTV National News.
 
chuckydoll said:
Steve said:
That would be a shame if it happend but if you had to loose a station CBC would be the best choice becouse outside of a handfull of shows there really isn't much there.
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The Corporation has a mandate to serve all of Canada, not just the biggest cities. Want proof? Look to the Maritimes.

CBC has its own station in each Maritime provincial capital (Charlottetown, Fredericton, Halifax, St. John's). Each of those 4 stations has its own staff and its own news department. In fact, the only local TV news in Prince Edward Island comes from the CBC.
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Not to mention the far north. But stations are certainly warranted in all of the above locations.

ATV has 2 stations in Nova Scotia and 2 stations in New Brunswick. No CTV bureau in P.E.I. No CTV presence in Newfoundland & Labrador.

Global Maritimes is essentially run from Halifax -- no bureau in P.E.I., little if any presence in NL.
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ATV and Global are both essentially run from Halifax. One newscast for the whole Maritime region in both cases. But as I said, there is demand for local stations in the region, and that's where CBC at least attempts to fill in the gaps with PEI and NB.

M.J. said:
If the CBC wants to save money on transmitters, then they shouldn't be transmitting their French network outside of Quebec and any other Francophone pockets throughout the country. Same with the English network in most of Quebec outside Montreal.
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Any Government that does that would be committing political suicide.
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Switching off an analog English transmitter in, say, Kelowna would create much more of an uproar than switching off an analog French transmitter there. Just look at Kamloops. I don't think anybody watches CBUFT there, and I'm not the only one who has suggested that transmitter be switched to English. You can't broadcast to nobody; that is what the French CBC essentially does in many parts of the country.
 
The only way Newfoundlanders can view a proper CTV affiliate is by subscribing to StarChoice or Bell ExpressVu. NTV does are some CTV programming but very little aside from CANADA A.M., CTV NATIONAL NEWS, GOOD MORNING CANADA, and W-FIVE but carries mostly programming from Global AND CHCH/CHEK, with one or two from the CHUM/CITY family. You can't even get CTV over-the-air in this province from the closest point to Nova Scotia (considering geographical distance). I'm not sure about if CTV has any transmitters in Quebec that can be picked up in western Labrador though.

During NTV's newscasts (only the noon and evening newscasts are live; the rest are pre-recorded), national stories come from CTV.

IMO, I think CTV should buy NTV and do away with all Global and CH programming as you can get it on cable in most parts of the province, albeit regarding the Global Edmonton and Vancouver affiliates, they air later than in the eastern stations as they're in western time zones (Mountain and Pacific). I know of a few places that also get Global from Toronto, which sounds strange IMO.
 
Mike said:
I'm not sure about if CTV has any transmitters in Quebec that can be picked up in western Labrador though.
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The only CTV transmitters in Quebec are the main transmitters in Montreal (CFCF) and Gatineau (CJOH, Ottawa). Everyone else gets CTV via cable or satellite.

Mike said:
IMO, I think CTV should buy NTV and do away with all Global and CH programming ...
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Taking after what the gun nuts say, personally, the only way CTV would get NTV is if they pry it out of Geoff Stirling's cold, dead fingers. And that's only if his kids are willing to sell.
 
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