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Kamloops to lose English CBC service

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mjlarochelle

The CRTC has approved the disaffiliation of CFJC-TV from the CBC, in order to allow a joint sales agreement with CHBC-TV Kelowna, which is already approved to disaffiliate from the CBC and become the fifth "CH". While the CBC has already decided to install a rebroadcaster of Vancouver's CBUT in Kelowna, they will not install one in Kamloops, and the CRTC is allowing them to get away with it.

At the end of all this, Kamloops viewers will have no CBC or CTV over-the-air (CIVT continues to be only available OTA in Vancouver); they will have to subscribe to cable or satellite to get CBUT from Vancouver. There is no reason why anyone should be forced to pay money to access Canada's public broadcaster. The irony is that the CBC has a transmitter of the French station CBUFT in Kamloops on Channel 50, an area that is mainly Anglophone.

If there is any justice, Channel 50 will become a transmitter of CBUT, or Pattison will operate a CBC station in Kamloops (in addition to CFJC) with the full CBC schedule until which time the CBC can purchase it.<P ID="signature">______________
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> The CRTC has approved the disaffiliation of CFJC-TV from the
> CBC, in order to allow a joint sales agreement with CHBC-TV
> Kelowna, which is already approved to disaffiliate from the
> CBC and become the fifth "CH". While the CBC has already
> decided to install a rebroadcaster of Vancouver's CBUT in
> Kelowna, they will not install one in Kamloops, and the CRTC
> is allowing them to get away with it.
>
> At the end of all this, Kamloops viewers will have no CBC or
> CTV over-the-air (CIVT continues to be only available OTA in
> Vancouver); they will have to subscribe to cable or
> satellite to get CBUT from Vancouver. There is no reason
> why anyone should be forced to pay money to access Canada's
> public broadcaster. The irony is that the CBC has a
> transmitter of the French station CBUFT in Kamloops on
> Channel 50, an area that is mainly Anglophone.
>
> If there is any justice, Channel 50 will become a
> transmitter of CBUT, or Pattison will operate a CBC station
> in Kamloops (in addition to CFJC) with the full CBC schedule
> until which time the CBC can purchase it.

Has the cheese slipped off the CRTC's cracker? How do they allow any community with that size population NOT have the national public broadcaster mandated to at least put up an english-language transmitter? Is Robert Rabinovitch paying off this week's head of the CRTC?

Somewhere, Knowlton Nash and Charles Jennings are weeping over it all...
>
 
> Has the cheese slipped off the CRTC's cracker? How do they
> allow any community with that size population NOT have the
> national public broadcaster mandated to at least put up an
> english-language transmitter? Is Robert Rabinovitch paying
> off this week's head of the CRTC?
>
> Somewhere, Knowlton Nash and Charles Jennings are weeping
> over it all...
> >
>
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I would think the Channel 50 transmitter in Kamloops will switch from SRC to CBC, and will rebroadcast CBUT-2 Vancouver instead of French-language CBUFT.
 
> The CRTC has approved the disaffiliation of CFJC-TV from the
> CBC, in order to allow a joint sales agreement with CHBC-TV
> Kelowna, which is already approved to disaffiliate from the
> CBC and become the fifth "CH". While the CBC has already
> decided to install a rebroadcaster of Vancouver's CBUT in
> Kelowna, they will not install one in Kamloops, and the CRTC
> is allowing them to get away with it.

The argument CFJC and the CBC give is that as a private affiliate, CFJC didn't carry the complete CBC schedule. There's 90% cable/satellite penetration in the Kamloops area.

So, with the disaffiliation approved, 90% of the audience gets the CBC programs CFJC wasn't carrying; in turn, 10% of the audience loses CBC altogether.

Fair trade? Good question.
 
Oh Dear (Thinks about all those people using OTA signals, we may have an angry mob of Senior Citizens who can't watch Coronation Street anymore!) LOL
 
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