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Would you consider Citytv a fourth English Canadian Network after CBC, CTV and Global? Also, will Citytv expand their coverage to Saskatchewan, Quebec, and the Marintimes province? Also, will Citytv expand their news department and add a national newscast like GLobal and CTV in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg?

On the side note, Canada has a bigger population than Australia. Why does Canada only has 3 major English network (CBC, CTV, and Global) while Australia (a smaller population) has at least 4 English network (ABC, 7, 9, and 10)?
 
Maybe because Australia doesn't have another nation's networks blasting across its border? Southern Canada, you could argue, actually has eight English language networks if you count the Americans.

Really, for being so close to the entertainment juggernaut that is the States, Canada does an amazing job promoting its own culture and individuality on the airwaves with its three networks.
 
"Would you consider Citytv a fourth English Canadian Network after CBC, CTV and Global? Also, will Citytv expand their coverage to Saskatchewan, Quebec, and the Marintimes province?"

Not really, since it's missing about half the provinces including one of the two biggest. Imagine if CBS didn't have affiliates in Texas, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and all six New England states and you get the drift.

As far as being short of networks for a country of 36 million...consider that for the first 30+ years of commercial television in the US, a population of 200+ million didn't really fully support three national commercial networks (DuMont died and ABC didn't achieve full audience, revenue and ratings parity with CBS and NBC until 1975-76). And it took another 20 years for the US to build TV viewing enough, and diversify it enough, that a fourth network could make a go of it with a seven-night-a-week schedule. It's a matter not just of how many people you could potentially reach, but how many people you can convince to watch.

A lot of Canada is also within over-the-air range of all the American broadcast networks, and still more see them by cable, so there's that additional competitive factor for CityTV to deal with if it wants to break out beyond the biggest Anglophone cities to be truly national.
 
I doubt there is going to be much more expansion of Citytv. The only possibility I could see in the future is the addition of standalone stations in Ottawa and Montreal, but I think the possibility is remote.
 
M.J. said:
I doubt there is going to be much more expansion of Citytv. The only possibility I could see in the future is the addition of standalone stations in Ottawa and Montreal, but I think the possibility is remote.
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In Ottawa, Citytv has a station there, but it's a full-powered repeater of its Toronto station. (Many GTA stations, except those for CBC, Radio-Canada and CTV, have repeaters serving Ottawa.) As for Montreal, it all depends on how much open channel space remains, and if there's a market for it -- while Montreal is a mixed area, most of its populace is Francophone.
 
azumanga said:
M.J. said:
I doubt there is going to be much more expansion of Citytv. The only possibility I could see in the future is the addition of standalone stations in Ottawa and Montreal, but I think the possibility is remote.
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In Ottawa, Citytv has a station there, but it's a full-powered repeater of its Toronto station. (Many GTA stations, except those for CBC, Radio-Canada and CTV, have repeaters serving Ottawa.) As for Montreal, it all depends on how much open channel space remains, and if there's a market for it -- while Montreal is a mixed area, most of its populace is Francophone.
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According to the I-C database, channel 36 will be available for a new full-power DTV station in Montreal after the transition. (so will channels 2 and 6, albeit with the attendant problems of low-band VHF DTV. Channel 15 is also in the table but for a LP-DTV at only 5 kilowatts.)

But I would be VERY surprised to see any expansion of OTA TV in Canada. We've seen stations go permanently dark in cities as large as Calgary; there just doesn't seem to be the economic basis for new OTA stations.
 
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