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Whoever seizes the opportunity should be welcomed, regardless of whether it's Corus or CFJC. Corus thinks local TV is a viable business. So does David Charbonneau in his column.
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April 28 Globe and Mail Tory culture warriors target CBC 'vested interests'
Harper's Conservatives are launching an attack on the CBC claiming that the public broadcaster is a Liberal mouthpiece.
Stephen Harper’s campaign director, Doug Finley has launched an anti-CBC fundraising campaign, asking for donations to fight the Liberal “vested interests” at the public broadcaster – “a Crown Corporation that receives over one billion dollars per year from taxpayers,”
It's all fallout from a CBC interview with pollster Frank Graves. The interviewer, Conservative Kory Teneyckehe, asks Graves to declare his Liberal leanings.
The connection between the CBC and pollster Graves is tenuous but it's reason for Conservatives to launch an attack on the beleaguered CBC which depends on government handouts.
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April 28
Globe and Mail Beating up the CBC is like
beating up a sick puppy
John Doyle thinks the Conservative attack is preemptive. Despite attempts by the CBC to placate their Tory masters, attacks will continue. "The real reason for the anti-CBC assault is to demonize the messenger while an unpopular message is getting out. You think it’s a coincidence that CBC is being attacked while the minority Conservative government is promoting a policy best summarized by this headline, 'Ottawa refuses to fund abortion in G8 plan.'? You really think that?"
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July
9
Kamloops Daily News Harper TV won't be answer to 'irrelevant' news coverage
David Charbonneau says that Sun TV's proposed channel hopes to duplicate Fox News. If it is successful, it won't be because the drivel dished out by Bill O'Reilly or Glenn Beck with their predictable attacks on Barack Hussein Obama as a Hitlerite-Commie-Kenyan-Muslim who is also black and not an American anyway. What makes the network viable is that those same viewers who enjoy frothing, rabid insults also have money to spend on advertisers' products.
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October 26
Kamloops Daily News CRTC decision boosts free TV option, local group says
Pam Astbury, president of the local group Save Our CBC Kamloops says that a recent CRTC ruling means that Shaw Cable must finance conversion to digital TV in small markets like Kamloops. It only makes sense that the conversion involve multiplexing which allows 6 standard channels to be carried on what was once a single analogue channel. “It says they understand and appreciate the practical benefit of multiplexing as a way of affecting media concentration when Shaw takes over Canwest,” Astbury said of Friday’s CRTC decision. “Multiplexing would affect community stations and diversify what we have here.”
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