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"We can't afford to produce Canadian content," they say. "We can barely keep the lights on in our rinky-dink local stations."
You can see their point, too. The full-page newspaper ads from Shaw Cable these past few weeks insist that fee for carriage, based on figures used by the commercial networks, will cost subscribers $6 a month, or $72 a year, "for no new programming and no new jobs."It may be an unsolvable dilemma, and I'm not sure which side I support. Maybe neither. Given our small household's rather discriminating TV-viewing habits, I feel we already do not get good value for the $50 a month or so we pay to MTS for our cable subscription.See the full content of this document
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Conventional Tv so 20th Century
Asking cable companies to pay just asking for trouble
The programming execs at Canada's commercial TV networks have apparently just returned from Los Angeles, where they dropped their usual wads of cash ...See the full content of this document
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