tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post9065344948669124068..comments2023-11-14T11:44:10.396-05:00Comments on The Legion of Decency: MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOUjimhenshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07815834271470133872noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post-9742399125880619692009-05-06T09:40:00.000-04:002009-05-06T09:40:00.000-04:00It's all well and good to believe Jim the Cowboy i...It's all well and good to believe Jim the Cowboy is the saviour of local television. And I applaude him for trying. But look closely at what he purchased -- Windsor and Wingham are run out of London. The newsrooms, local advertising departments, Traffic etc all centralized somewhere else. It will take millions to bring either of those operations up to speed, and by September of 2009? Are we to believe they'll be producing 10 hours of local news per week? And if not, will the CRTC relieve them of that license obligation? The Kenora operation barely does a 1/2 hour of local programming a day; a fraction of what is being done at most local stations. And they rent programming from CTV/Global.<br />Don't get me wrong, this is exactly what is needed -- someone to step up for the operations that CTV are blackmailing the CRTC with. But to say they are profiting from local TV (and will continue to do so) seems a stretch. Just sad that there's a nasty corporate pissing match going on and we're the ones getting wet.CanadianNickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10992391151312116583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post-84023823338681914802009-05-05T09:59:00.000-04:002009-05-05T09:59:00.000-04:00As a consumer, I sorta feel like Poland in 1939: G...As a consumer, I sorta feel like Poland in 1939: Germany on one side, the Soviet Union on the other. And I'm about to be carved up...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com