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| CRTC approves Fox News for Canada |
| 2004-11-18 |
| This one's for rex, if he's still here: The conservative-leaning Fox News Channel will soon be coming to Canadian digital television channels. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved an application Thursday to bring the Fox News Channel, one of the highest-rated news channels in the United States, onto Canadian digital airwaves. The Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association (CCTA) applied to the broadcast regulator in April....The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) opposed the application, saying it would discourage foreign broadcasters from partnering with Canadian broadcasters. However, in its decision, the CRTC said Fox News offers little Canadian coverage and is not "partially or totally competitive with any Canadian pay or specialty service."...The CRTC rejected a CCTA application to bring Fox to Canada last November because Fox News U.S. and Winnipeg-based Global Television were planning to create Fox News Canada, a combination of U.S. and Canadian news. However, in March, a Fox U.S. executive said there were no plans to create the combined channel. The CRTC was thrust into the spotlight in July after giving conditional approval to the digital broadcast of Arab television station al-Jazeera....No Canadian distributors carry al-Jazeera.... Hmm, CNN or Fox. I'll reserve judgment for now. And no, that's not sarcasm. |
| Posted by:Rafael |
| #4 I saw a CNN special with Paula Zahn visiting with the families of a deployed marine unit a few months ago. She spent the whole time looking like she was holding a dead rat by the tail. |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-11-18 5:17:19 PM |
| #3 Have you seen enough of Fox News to make the comparison? None. Except for bits and pieces here and there. But I mean, c'mon...CNN has Christiane Amanpour. And Christiane has the ability to parachute in on any story around the world within 30 seconds of the "Breaking News" banner sliding across the screen. No one can beat that. And where else could you find people like Paula Zahn, who maintains that Jihadis can't see (literally) the difference between Iraqi government troops and US soldiers from a distance, even though this is completely irrelevant to what her guest is talking about (and everything else for that matter, but y'see, it's nice to know she cares about the Jihadis). And Aaron Brown, Michael Moore's buddy. (No need to say anything else, is there?) And of course, last but not least, Larry King. But there's some sane people there too, like Lou Dobbs. The main reason why I'll continue watching CNN is because there's now a filter available for all the BS, spin, propaganda, bias, and general moonbattery: it's called Rantburg :) |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-11-18 4:56:29 PM |
| #2 Rafael - Have you seen enough of Fox News to make the comparison? If your statement isn't sarcasm, then it's satire, lol! CNN? Lol! Brit Hume is what the others are pretending to be. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-11-18 3:10:50 PM |
| #1 Fox will be popular west of Ontario except in Vancouver, if the election returns from their parliamentary election is an indication. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-11-18 3:01:56 PM |