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Part IV: Cancon works in Quebec
By Doris Montanera
THE QUEBEC MARKET is the country’s Bizarro World for Canadian content. Frame its borders with mirrors and the reflected image offers the opposite of everything we know, and believe, in the rest of Canada when it ...
08/03/11 | Full Story
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The State of Cancon: The sugar that might help the medicine go down
By Doris Montanera
CANCON’S RULES AND regulations are much like a series of bandages slapped onto the television industry - one here to cover a scrape, another there as salve on a slash. It’s almost impossible to rip any away ...
07/26/11 | Full Story
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: SimSub is a U.S. invention
I have looked at your series on Canadian content. Any discussion with respect to television has to deal with cable carriage and simultaneous program substitution. While the flavour of the subject is there, some basic facts need ...
07/26/11 | Full Story
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: CanCon must keep pace as the Internet remakes broadcasting
This is a very timely analysis of the whole CanCon issue and, with luck, a precursor to a long-overdue policy review by government. Despite technology neutral definitions in the Broadcasting Act, so many elements of broadcasting law, ...
07/26/11 | Full Story
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The State of Cancon: What began as a Band-Aid for broadcasters, now a harmful regulation for Cancom
By Doris Montanera
THE YEAR 1972 saw the beginning of the Watergate scandal and the M.A.S.H. television series. It was also the year that the balm of simultaneous substitution (simsub) was handed to Canadian broadcasters.
Simsub, ...
07/20/11 | Full Story
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The State of Cancon: We've hit the flashpoint of Canadian TV and things must change, say creators
By Doris Montanera
PLAY A GAME WITH THE average English-language Canadian: “Name a Canadian television show”. Exclude Hockey Night in Canada and news. Watch them furrow their brow.
“Uh, Flashpoint?” says one ...
07/13/11 | Full Story
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Cartt.ca INVESTIGATES: The State of Canadian Content
MANY TAKE IT AS GOSPEL in this business that without rules to force Canadian broadcasters to make (or at least pay for) and air Canadian content, they just wouldn’t. Instead, they’d more cheaply buy foreign (i.e. U.S.) ...
07/05/11 | Full Story
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Cord-cutting: Either growing OTT players must pay, or the playing field's lines must be redrawn
By Doris Montanera
LESS THAN A DECADE AGO, the television landscape was a lucrative landscape of BDUs and broadcasters who understood the terrain. Laws were established. Rules followed. Peace (sort of) reigned.
Then over-the-top video ...
06/28/11 | Full Story
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