55 Replies to “Not Watching For The Asteroid”

  2. Isn’t doing too well. Like the article on the lost skiiers they just can’t raise any outrage no matter how hard they try.

  3. CTV? What’s a CTV?
    I haven’t watched a Canadian TV station for longer than an hour a day since I discovered SDA.
    Even better news will be that CBC is closing down.
    In fact, my prayer time yesterday was concentrated on their demise. May they rest in peace.

  4. Do you think that CTV’s and CBC’s demise will reflect badly on the LPC?
    My God! That sure means a lot more House Party’s to raise awareness and money. The LPC losing all those pro-progressives will certainly close a free advertising link.
    The bottom line is TV in general sucks. Very little worth watching from a Drama point of view, absolutely NOTHING from a NEWs point of view (everything is OP ED presented to the Gullible as NEWs)
    I get more news from SDA, cappy cap, steven taylor, and steve Janke than the majore networs; and I get more entertainment value reading WK and watching him SELF DESTRUCT!

  5. When ctv and cbc both go under (wishful thinking maybe), I just may have to have a nice cold beer or two to celebrate. In some ways I find ctv even worse than the conservative bashing corporation. I suppose it’s on a scale of who disgusts me more. Fire at them all.

  6. If CTV needs to cut costs ,then why not retire Craig Oliver? He apparently is 70 years old and live off his pension like everyone else. In fact there looks to be a few best before date people draining funds and turning viewers away from CTV. Why don’t these employees do CTV a favour and retire?

  7. There are a lot of past their sell-by date newscasters [sic] out there: Oliver, Robertson, Mansbridge, to name just a few. You’d think they could have moved over a long time ago to let the littler, younger piglets swill at the trough … but these BIG PIGS are so entrenched it’s going to be difficult, if not impossible, to pry them out of their place at the head of the line.
    GR-8 thought, NorthernLight:
    Fewer CTV stations,
    Cutback CBC,
    Means less free advertising
    for the LPC.
    O happy day! 😉

  8. It’s the penalty for choosing to run a political agenda instead of trying to capture a broad audience with impartial and balanced views. CTV howls from the darkness of the far left even more than CBC. Perhaps they pretend they don’t see it themselves but I have to believe they made the decision to abandon business and promote a single ideology hoping to create a nation rich in leftist feeling. They made their bed by alienating 50 % of their potential audience.
    As well the CBC needs to be set free to enrich themselves privately with the profits generated from peddling their chosen ideology of social justice or what ever they call it in far left circles.

  9. CTV lost all credibility when they hired Valerie Pringle. They should die a painful death.
    Most of their original programming is actually worse than CBC’s. The 1.5 minutes I spent watching Corner Gas were excruciating. Anyone who’s ever spent time in a small Sask. town doesn’t need to be reminded of it on a weekly basis.

  10. From my experience, it’s not the local programming that kills off audience share and profits.
    It’s the crap at the top of the heap, in this case the superficial, agenda driven drivel that passes for national news and commentary. What serious viewer can be exposed to CTV’s coverage of “climate change” and not be intellectually repulsed?

  11. Amazing. I’d be willing to pay for some of the channels at the upper end of the tiers, but only if I didn’t have to pay for the crap on the first few levels which include CTV and CBC. Will they ever get the message? Killing your offspring to save yourself is a tactic with a short lifespan.

  13. In other, completely related news,
    Paul Wells is deleting comments from non-progressive “Kody” on his blog,
    such as this in response to a commenter about Obama – the others’ responses remain, but “Kody’s” has been deleted:
    “Interesting that you characterize:
    – the largest and most pork laden (9000 seperate earmarks) spending increase we’ve ever witnessed in our lifetimes,
    – deficits that dwarf Bush’s hated debt spending and the largest since WWII
    -the nationalization of banks (that’s right kids, the feds now own a controlling interest in Citibank),
    -the most hostile policy towards ventur capitalism, small business and entrapaneurs [in short the entitites that actually grow the economy] ever recorded, with simultaineous cap gains increases, tax on “the rich”, and carbon price increases
    – promises (and $600 billion for “starters”) to simultaineously nationalize healthcare, create nationalized cradle to university funding, while also paying for folks to live in houses they can’t afford but apparantly now have a state right to, AND insuring all unionized jobs in the auto big three stay intact notwithstanding their inherent innefficiencies,
    as merely,
    “dealing with domestic politics”.
    When the public realizes the magical happy unicorn fairy dust that Obama’s been sprinkling on his lofty rhetoric is really wealth killing redistributive socialism with a smile,
    the Americans won’t chalk this up to merely “dealing with domestic politics” I can assure you.”
    Note the abscense of name calling, vitriol etc.
    “The One” shall be protected at all costs it seems.

  14. Then there are the bigwig CBC swillers trying to push themselves to the fat part of the trough and ding us weary taxpayers for another $65 million. Did it never occur to them to stop flying Peter Pickapeck all around the world to read the news every night? Or paying the tiresome “most watched political panel” to spew their all-too-predictable drivel at least once a week? There must be a few million in potential savings right there.

  15. We could see a couple of scenarios emerge from this situation. One would be the rebirth of small, local stations. The other might be the death of all Canadian programming.
    I’d prefer to see more local programming. It’s not easy keeping these “cable 10” type stations afloat. Local advertising dollars aren’t easy to attract. Radio stations tend to eat it up. I’m sure that if the public money that’s thrown at the CBC, were thrown at local stations(in the form of grants), we’d experience a resurgence of local programming.
    Think of it, you could watch your kid’s hockey game, or see coverage of the boat show you couldn’t get time off to go see. You’d see people you recognize, making fools of themselves, instead of some weirdo from Toronto waving a sign that says “death to Jews”. You’d see a bunch of local guys moving a rig onto your neighbours land, instead of David Suzuki calling for a demonstration against “big oil”. Life would be much more positive without all those distractions.

  16. CBC claims its role it is “to present Canada to Canadians”
    CTV thinks its role is to broadcast a Toronto centric multi-culti is all goody view of Canada to Canadians.
    No wonder people aren’t watching.
    Put Don Cherry in charge of CTV news, fire all the champagne socialists and latte liberals that infest their newsroom now and their numbers would go through the roof.
    This current money losing scare is just another attempt to scam the CRTC into granting more money to them – our money.

  18. The real shame in all this is that the A Channel station in Wingham had a long, proud and illustrious history as an independent/CBC affiliate and that ever since they lost that connection with the CBC it’s been downhill. Go figure. Part of me wants to see some enterprising businessman take over the Wingham station and rework it into something practical and useful to the mid-Southwestern Ontario region again. Sadly, all it’s been for the last number of years is a rebroadcaster of the London station.
    I’ll miss CKNX, even if I’m not in its range anymore.

  19. Fay; I’m with you on Craig Oliver. Ever since the income trust business, perhaps before, the man seems incapable of keeping his personal animosity towards the government out of his reporting. If Harper waved a wand and cured all the sick in the country, Oliver would find something wrong with it.

  20. If CTV are cutting back then why did they send Seamus to the ANT Arctic? Maybe he was banished there instead?

  21. Gave up on watching these twits, around the endless ‘pandemic’ fear mongering series of cbc and ctv, and the ctv gang sneering at ‘Bush’s so called war on terror’, and just couldn’t stomach the pro-Pali vs distinctly anti-Israeli stance from Global, so don’t bother with any of their news/entertainment shows anymore. Will watch Fox once in a while but rarely on any sort of regular basis.
    Do feel I’m better informed because of blogs like this that provided the real information as well on my time. Not to forget the valued often on the spot contributors, immensely appreciated really.
    Have to admit about liking the idiot smack downs like dynamic duo, #2 gets from Kate.
    See? We’re in keeping with a format as well, very considerate I’d say… 🙂
    Only tv I like now is Holms on Homes, mega builds, and a couple of others in that venue, and that’s it.

  22. Canadian broadcasters are tightly controlled by a far-left bureaucracy which is focussed exclusively on diversity and an ideology which is contrary to community standards across this country.
    CTV, Canwest, CBC have a valid argument for a bailout. They played by the rules and now they’re essentially bankrupt despite over $7 billion in handouts every year – yes, $7 billion for Canadian “culture”.
    The only recourse being considered by the geniuses at the CRTC is to regulate the internet while increasing cable television fees.
    Watch what happens next. Canadians will start to cancel their cable TV in record numbers. Advertisers have already moved their resources out of broadcasting.
    Bottom line, the state cannot impose controls over it’s culture in an effort to further it’s own insidious agenda. Consumers will not watch or pay for propaganda.

  23. CTV, CBC, Global, this recession going to wipe out all of our Canadian media outlets. The ironic thing is that the CRTC has put restriction on foreign ownership so these media outlets can’t raise money outside of Canada.

  24. The Big Media is incorrect to treat the symptoms whilst ignoring the cause of the malaise.
    Much like the Detroit Three over the past so many decades.
    Don’t just worry about the current financial problems; don’t just cut this and that and later on rebuild it back, only to have to cut again in the next downturn, for there’ll be (and has been) a permanent downwards spiral, financially as well as quality/desirability-wise in terms of product, if this is the long-term game plan, as we’ve also seen, coincidentally, in the Detroit Three’s behavior.
    The Big Media must ask the hard questions of itself. Particularly as to why its customers are turning away and why its advertisers are as well. Where are they all going? Online. Why online? Because it’s there and it provides preffered alternatives to the same old nonsense offered by the old-line Big Media, which has become too arrogant and complacent, like the Detroit Three, to survive, until it reforms precisely as it MUST vis-a-vis the competition, to survive in the long term (or even in the short-to medium range).
    I’d sure like to get into the Big Media and turn it around. I could do that, if the elites would only listen to me, believe me and trust me and implement my recommendations. Hell, I could do it with General Motors, too, if I was thusly empowered… the elites so far have been incompetent due to their greed, focussing only on short-term profitability at the expense of product quality and desirablity and competitiveness, not to mention ultimate ability to continue as a going concern.
    Damn, the solution to the malaise of the Big Media is so obvious it’s astonishing that it goes on as if the same old way of thinking will save it. Which it won’t, ultimately. Talk about dinosaurs!
    Continue the old way of thinking… at the risk of extinction. Failure IS an option, sometimes unavoidable.
    You know, the business types in the suits… there’s a mentality from which they suffer. They’re so focussed on fitting in to the group, on instant success, that they don’t think in terms of the long run, in terms of keeping and winning new customers, in terms of offering better and better product that is relevant and useful to existing and potential customers (ask them; don’t just assume they’ll choke down whatever you want to offer, much of which is on the recommendation of special-interest lobby group activist contacts of yours, making you too damned politically correct for the majority!)… it’s obvious that it’s time to think outside the box, become radical reformers, take the right risks, anger those who’ve so far been telling you how to report/how not to report… you must become mavericks.
    Stop listening to the special interests, the Left-wing activists, the political-correctness nonsense. Stop trying to be “progressive”! Start reporting the facts, regardless of who might find them inconvenient and offensive, ’cause this is what the majority of your customers, however progressively fewer there are, want! Just the gosh-darned facts, ma’am!
    Guess what, Big Media bigwigs? Give your head a shake, slap yourselves awake… think outside the comfy, prescribed box… You do NOT have to be politically-correct and “progressive”! Absolutely NOT! This is the gosh-darned bottom line! Listen to your customers/former customers/potential customers!
    Oh, btw, Big Media bigwigs, I have a business degree, just in case you’re interested in my analysis and views and are willing to pay for them… Though I’m not necessarily cheap. 😉

  25. “When” the CRTC licenses Al-Jazeera, it will create a backlash that will kill, or cure Canadian programming.

  26. The hateful, supremacistic, terrorism-supporting Al-Jazeera, if granted by the Leftist-controlled CRTC a channel in Canada, would be devastating for the Big Media establishment and the CRTC. It would only give the Right another excuse to radically reform the Broadcasting Act or whatever is on the books, and to radically reform the CRTC.
    The further the state apparatus goes in terms of its radical-Left extremist “progressiveness”, the stronger the largely-silent-so-far Right-wing majority becomes. Politically, this empowers the Conservatives, brings them more votes. Sooner or later we’ll have a majority and will reform the Senate. Then we’ll clean house, removing the excessive, exclusive power of the hard-Left-wing extremist ideologues who, like fascists, impose their own tiny-minority extremist views on the rest of Canada.

  27. “Canadian broadcasters are tightly controlled by a far-left bureaucracy which is focussed exclusively on diversity and an ideology which is contrary to community standards across this country. ”
    Albert….you can’t have both. You either have diversity,i.e. both left and right views espoused on the “news”,or you have ideology,which in the case of Canuck broadcasters is all lieberal,all the time.They do not deserve one penny of my money.
    When they start broadcasting news again,and not op-eds,then they will regain their viewership.But as the article points out,that ain’t gonna happen,so why should MY hard earned bucks pay for liberal,”progressive” views,when I don’t agree with them? If their views are that popular and widespread,then they should have no problem raising money from advertisers and private donations.
    You sound like a lieberal,you want your cake and eat it to.

  29. It’s interesting to note that these massive conglomerates with the exclusive possession or monopoly control of the trade and that have a commodity lock on Canadian airwaves are unable to survive.
    If FOX News cable was allowed into the Canadian market, they would thrive and earn shareholders good returns on their money.
    Which speaks directly to the programming they offer, doesn’t it.
    Hey Mr. Fecan, and Mr. Asper, there is a message there for you from the folks.

  30. I agree, Bruce. It was also a great loss for the CTV when Question Period with the Leftists replaced, but never held a candle to, Duffy’s Sunday Edition. But now he can do bigger stuff, as a Senator for the Conservative government. Just watch him. He’ll be showing the other Senators how to do their job. And showing other politicians how to deal with stupid-ass reporters, as he knows all about the Big Media himself.
    It’s, however, a great loss for the CTV.

  31. Joe Molnar, FOX News is available on cable in Canada. But as far as I can tell, you need to blow about a hundred bucks a month, twice the basic-cable rate, to get FOX. It should be included in the same package in which one gets CNN.
    Me? I don’t currently get cable. Waste of fifty to a hundred bucks a month, especially when one has to be stingy with one’s income…

  32. I agree with Kate on the global warming thing. I don’t know which network is more repellently irritating with their smug sermonizing on the AGW myth. Actually you could throw Global in as well. They are all Kool Aid drinkers just like Suzuki.
    Fred also has a point that viewers are sick of the Toronto based cultural theology coming from our broadcasters.
    Joe Molnar is also quite right. Bring on Fox. I’m already listening to it on satellite radio. There’s a reason that their ratings are so high. Get it CRTC?

  33. In tough economic times, CTV, a private organization will look at its business and cut, layoff, and change to make itself profitable again, no matter how painful to employees.
    Unfortunately the CBC with its Entitlement mentality and agenda wants no such thing, they want the public to pour in more money so they can continue to operate like dinasaurs indefintely. They are unwilling to look at reality.
    The only good thing about CBC is Rex Murphy. If the CBC were gone tomorrow Rex would be picked up by the competition. His piece last Thursday on the Oil Sands was great.
    RL

  34. Thanks for reminding me. I’ve been planning to cut back my programming. I quit watching a lot of channels in the last year or so. I used to watch CNN, but find it repulsive now. It’s embedded with a bunch of useless channels, so dropping it, and a few others will save quite a few bucks.
    There are only about a dozen decent channels(ironic, isn’t it?) out of 300, or so. Spike, Mystery, History, and the networks are about all you really need. HBO has too much garbage mixed with their Canadian version. We’ll see quite a few of these channels disappear.

  35. Albert….you can’t have both. You either have diversity,i.e. both left and right views espoused on the “news”,or you have ideology,which in the case of Canuck broadcasters is all lieberal,all the time.They do not deserve one penny of my money.
    Hello justthinkin’
    I’m on your side and I agree with you.
    And when I speak of the Canadian media’s “diversity agenda” which is promoted and enforced by the CRTC, the CTF, Telefilm and others, what I am referencing is their anti-conservative, anti-anglo, anti-family, anti-American agenda.
    Now the CRTC wants to “regulate” or censor the internet – not to promote “Canadian stories” or “protect us from child porn” – they want to censor free-thought and political opinion, ie; conservative opinion and traditional values.
    I welcome the end of Canada’s MSM.

  36. What is really sad is that the Conservative Govt. seems to support the CBC even when the CBC is the official network of the Liberal Party. Fire all the Red CBC directors!!

  37. Agreed on the mutiple levels of crap on the dial. All I want is to have HD channels, but I have to subscribe to all th other flotsam and jetsam to get it.
    So, upon news that Shaw wants to ding me another $10 more starting April fools day, I’m going to cut back my TV service. Enough of the BS, and useless ‘specialty’ channels. Switching my internet provider too.
    I’m waiting for another TV provider, that will hopefully be providing service here in Victoria within 2 years, where I get HD on the basic service, and can add HD stations to it, without taking 100 stations of crap with it (and paying for them too).
    A-channel? Can’t wait to see it keel over. Always critical of government, but has lots of time for the dippers to moan, groan and kvetch, of course, without ever stating anything sensible as to a solution. This station is just too PC

  38. I have not watched Canadian TV since I bought an RCA dish many years ago I now have Star Choice having cancelled Express View some years ago when I called to enquire about Fox News and was told by a nice lady in Montreal that Fox was not appropriate for Canadians. I tried to watch some Canadian news during the past couple of elections but found the coverage far too bias in favor of Libs.
    c

  39. STOP THE PRESSES !!
    Perhaps if the product was better it would have turned out better for them. Do they not read their own comments section ??
    [ “We’re in a period of sort of wrenching destruction,” he said. “We’re going to see the collapse of many newspapers.”] G&M
    [ The situation is so dire, CTV recently offered its station in Brandon to public broadcaster CBC for $1. The CBC declined.] G&M
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090228.wrmedia28/BNStory/Front

  40. Are these the end times?
    I’m watching Rush Limbaugh on CNN speaking about the virtues of being a conservative.
    Honest!

  41. Serious shradenfrude for me. I’m loving watching all the liberal institutions blow their brains out for all to see. The obamagasm was the last gasp.

  42. When you think about Craig Oliver you come face-to-face with what is really wrong with networks like CTV and CBC. Oliver says that a journalist’s or at least his job is to “hold politicians accountable”. How someone could do a job for so long and be so wrong about what his mandate really is. A journalist’s job is to report the bloody news. That it, Craig! It is the voter’s job to hold politicians accountable. Now retire already.

  43. Charles – I have Bell Xpressview and I watch Foxnews channel 507 every day. Fox is a breath of fresh air compared to what I call the alphabet networks ie NBC CBS ABC PBS ad nauseum. Lefties like to charge that FOX is biased toward conservatives. They are so used to only getting one side of issues that any news source that gives it to them “fair and balanced” is deemed to be right wing.

  44. I to grew up on cknx circle 8 ranch razzle dazzle the forest rangers hockey knight in CANADA it is a shame.

  46. I am in Calgary with Shaw.
    We have HD and the big screen and we are tuned to Fox News 142 all the time when we aren’t watching HD sports on TSN. CBC Pravda disappeared from my viewing around 2001 and CTV shortly thereafter; especially the so called “news”
    It only cost a little every month for Fox News but well worth it.

  47. Reading between the lines, CTV A-Channel stations are getting killed by the CRTC regulations.
    Absent the obscene licensing fees and the idiot regulations on what can be shown, could they turn a profit? Possibly by showing Fox News and re-runs of Gunsmoke and Roy Rogers? Because maybe then a TV ad wouldn’t cost a fortune? Duh?
    Time for the CPC genius brigade to sharpen up the ax and wade into the multi-zillion dollar Ministry of Culture jungle. Shine the light boys, watch the roaches head for the baseboards.
    Personally I won’t care, I jettisoned my TV connection. Over the side, baby. After a whole lifetime of watching the idiot box, I cut the umbilical.
    Ask me why, CTVCBCNBCABCCBSCNN. 500 channels of nothing on, that’s why.

  48. If the MSM “journalists” ever learned their trade, they may have a chance. My wife was watching the local CTV newscast. It reported “… a fight that turned violent in Surrey (BC)”. Forgive my poor understanding of the English language (I attended public schools) but I thought fights were, by definition, violent. Arguments and disagreements may turn violent, i.e. become a fight.

  49. The moral of the story for the ‘national’ news media in Canada is that you cannot tell the public a bunch of lies and call it ‘news’.
    If the Crooked Liberal Party du Canada tells a lie boasting about itself, or a lie denigrating its opposition, then its a LIE.
    It is not ‘news’.
    Somewhere the MSM media lost sight of the fact that the public just wants the news so they can make up their own minds.
    Opinion editorials, of course, are okay as part of free speech for everyone, but they should be clearly marked as such when the MSM wants to indulge in them.
    Because we all need a good laugh now and then.

  50. Three stations in Western Canada need help and one in Canada? Does that mean that ALBERTANS catch on a little quicker than the rest of Canada?

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