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Un-bundling of Cable Channels in Canada

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LKellerIII

To all of you people posting here that are upset about being charged by your cable or satellite TV provider for selling you packages of channels you do not want - the Canadian government is apparenly going to force TV providers in the Great White North to unbundle their channel offerings.

They also note in the article that they are looking at other pro-consumer measures, such as preventing airline overbooking, and excessive cell phone roaming charges.

What a crappy country! I'm sure glad I don't live in that socialist hellscape where consumers are protected, prescription drug prices are low, and everybody has great cradle-to-grave health care. :rolleyes:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/13/canada-politics-idUSL1N0I30BW20131013
 
LKellerIII said:
To all of you people posting here that are upset about being charged by your cable or satellite TV provider for selling you packages of channels you do not want - the Canadian government is apparenly going to force TV providers in the Great White North to unbundle their channel offerings.

They also note in the article that they are looking at other pro-consumer measures, such as preventing airline overbooking, and excessive cell phone roaming charges.

What a crappy country! I'm sure glad I don't live in that socialist hellscape where consumers are protected, prescription drug prices are low, and everybody has great cradle-to-grave health care. :rolleyes:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/13/canada-politics-idUSL1N0I30BW20131013
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How can you be against COMMON SENSE (Ohh wait REPUBLICANS are against it. How silly of me to forget that)

GOOD GRIEF :rolleyes:

Cheers & 73 :)
 
Canada's broadcast ownership is a mega monopoly between 4 or 5 conglomerates that have their hand in everything up there. Telephone, cable, satellite, internet, wireless; You name it. Outside of the CBC which has to produce Canadian programming via CTRC rules, the likes of Shaw and Rogers and Telus etc. simply buy up primetime and syndicated programming from the U.S. and air it with Canadian ads simsubbed in and laugh all the way to the bank having produced next to nothing for years.

Canada needed to do this.
 
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