32 replies to this topic

[Bernard]

You don't need to mess around with torrents to get tv. Every station website broadcasts their shows for free. It's sometimes a challenge to find them, but...it's free.

I do not need torrents to watch all the major Canadian networks.

[gumgum]

Sorry, I was replying to West.

[Holden West]

^But isn't one of the benefits of intercepting these signals that they are uncompressed and don't look like a 1998 webcast when blown up on the big screen?

[Victoria Watcher]

Global News “On The Brink”

Global News is “on the brink,” an executive with the country’s number three television network yesterday told a Senate hearing. The assessment came despite millions in federal subsidies and a 38 percent profit margin in TV: “We can no longer do this alone.”

 

https://www.blackloc...s-on-the-brink/

[lanforod]

I do not consider these companies critical services. If they can't make a business model work without taxpayer subsidies, they need to drop it. and yes, that goes for the CBC too.

[Spy Black]

I do not consider these companies critical services. If they can't make a business model work without taxpayer subsidies, they need to drop it. and yes, that goes for the CBC too.

The entire concept of stand-alone "broadcast news" is long dead.

 

I don't know what the specific metrics are, but most "broadcast news" today is a support mechanism for that same broadcasters web portal, which is where most connected folks get all their news in 2022.

 

There are holdouts of course, folks who still pay $120.00 a month for cable TV, and who watch the news religiously at 6:00pm each evening ... but catering and pandering to that very small minority with taxpayer dollars shouldn't even be on the table.

[Mike K.]

The bigger issue is the MSM has now begun to use government dollars as a comfortable buffer, and if that money ever disappears, one could imagine there will be a sudden collapse among many media agencies that won’t be able to generate additional revenues fast enough.

How many news agencies does one city need, if they are all collectively operating in the red without taxpayer subsidies?

[Nparker]

...How many news agencies does one city need, if they are all collectively operating in the red without taxpayer subsidies?

Zero, if they are so afraid to lose taxpayer funding that essentially all they do is rewrite government press releases.

[Mike K.]

One of the newest entrants calls the government their “silent partner.”

[Nparker]

One of the newest entrants calls the government their “silent partner.”

Sounds like the mafia.

[Matt R.]

Protection money.

[Victoria Watcher]

Reeb also complained of “competitors who come in and take audiences” as well as social media companies. 

 

“We have all these other quotas, fees, requirements for Canadian content, requirements on independent production, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, and at the same time have foreign competitors who come in and take audiences at the same time as Facebook and Google take advertising dollars,” said Reeb.

 

“Netflix and Amazon compete with us for audiences and are now taking more of it than ever. The same U.S. studios that used to license us content for Canadian television are now going around Canadian broadcasters to take it directly to Canadians themselves.”  

In the last five years, Corus Entertainment Inc. has lost nearly 80% of its stock value on the Toronto Stock Exchange. 

 

With the support of legacy media companies, the Trudeau government is currently pushing through its internet regulation law Bill C-11 which is designed to prop up legacy media companies by forcing social media giants to pay for their content. 

 

 

https://tnc.news/202...global-funding/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 September 2022 - 12:03 PM.

[Nparker]

...the Trudeau government is currently pushing through its internet regulation law Bill C-11 which is designed to prop up legacy media companies by forcing social media giants to pay for their content...

The same bill that would give government bureaucrats the ability to track online activity.