tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post2486771535310107311..comments2023-11-14T11:44:10.396-05:00Comments on The Legion of Decency: Lazy Sunday # 209: Wolfpack Of Resedajimhenshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07815834271470133872noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post-22438019133549338712012-02-26T11:39:37.273-05:002012-02-26T11:39:37.273-05:00Okay here's where I take my cynic tv writer ha...Okay here's where I take my cynic tv writer hat off and put on my dusty journo hat. <br /><br />I spent four years working on a show called media television during the early years of the FIRST internet bubble. Because the show was about media, I spent an awful lot of time talking to creatives and business people in ad agencies, media buying firms, networks, sales people, etc, etc, etc. Client boardrooms too. And the overwhelming sense of things I got was that just as the networks here were "captured" by the ease of making money of simsub, the people on the other side were the same way. Completely risk averse creative that was always looking over its shoulder to the USA. A reluctance to recognize local talent. A tendency to talk about "the market" but dive for any managed safe port of Canadian market protection possible.<br /><br />We still live in a world where Canadian series that are doing over a million, and besting many of the U.S. offerings on other channels in certain timeslots still make a fraction of the ad rates. The "Canadian discount" is a reality.<br /><br />In the end, we as creatives can put on our huckster hat as much as we want and reach out as far as we want to these companies...<br /><br />...but the truth is, they don't have the balls to play. <br /><br />Different industry. Different model. Same old shit.<br /><br />Doesn't mean we shouldn't try, but eyes need to be wide open going in, not covered with the rose colored specs of naivete...DMchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105351826851407562noreply@blogger.com