tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post1361681995497721611..comments2023-11-14T11:44:10.396-05:00Comments on The Legion of Decency: US CONTENT SUNK OUR HOCKEY ANTHEM!jimhenshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07815834271470133872noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post-91346690482077188382008-06-20T02:37:00.000-04:002008-06-20T02:37:00.000-04:00Hello Jim, here's some interesting reading for ya:...Hello Jim, here's some interesting reading for ya:<BR/><BR/>http://www.friends.ca/News/news06040801.asp<BR/><BR/>Vancouver – CBC will air more foreign programs than ever before on prime time English TV next autumn, defying CRTC licence expectations and confirming that CBC has lost touch with its public broadcasting purpose, says the watchdog group FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting.<BR/><BR/>CBC will regularly broadcast 7 hours of foreign, mostly US, programs during prime time. This is a substantial increase, eclipsing the highest level of foreign content ever tracked since FRIENDS first began monitoring CBC’s English television schedule in 1990. CBC has logged a steady increase since the current head of CBC English operations took charge of television in the summer of 2004.<BR/><BR/>This plan will place CBC in defiance of the CRTC’s broadcast licence expectation of 80% Canadian content during prime time and runs counter to the recommendation of Commons Heritage Committee in its recent report on CBC’s mandate “that prime-time hours, from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm Monday to Friday, on the CBC/Radio-Canada’s television networks, should be reserved for Canadian productions”.<BR/><BR/>“CBC is supposed to be about presenting Canada to its citizens, not American game shows and Hollywood movies,...” (read more)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post-46938041602247088182008-06-17T18:02:00.000-04:002008-06-17T18:02:00.000-04:00Oh. Hell.Has anyone told Trebek about this yet?Oh. Hell.<BR/><BR/>Has anyone told Trebek about this yet?Dwight Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14389833479219422837noreply@blogger.com