What do you like about living in your part of Canada?
Jul 15th 2010, 5:50 pm
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Re: What do you like about living in your part of Canada?
I don't find this to be the case. Indeed I have a satellite radio so I can avoid the local stations. Could you give some examples of these musicians? Guy Lombardo, Hank Snow, Nickleback, Rush and Anne Murray spring to mind but surely you can't like any of them.
Jul 15th 2010, 5:51 pm
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Re: What do you like about living in your part of Canada?
If you only listened to R1, Capital, Heart, Magic etc, then I can see how Canadian radio may seem better. Radio 2 and 6 Music are far superior (in my opinion) than anything I've heard on Canadian radio.
Jul 15th 2010, 5:53 pm
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Re: What do you like about living in your part of Canada?
You may well be right about this, but it does feel like ads are longer and more frequent on Canadian TV compared to the UK. I remember when I first moved here I watched a film on the History channel. I can't remember which film it was, but it started at 9pm and didn't end until about 1am. I also noticed that the ads became more frequent towards the end of the film. It was like they knew that if you were still tuned in after over 3 hours you were probably going to watch it to the end, so why not throw in some extra adverts.
I also find the concept of going directly from the opening credits to an ad break and then a final ad break before the closing credits, to be a bit irritating.
I also find the concept of going directly from the opening credits to an ad break and then a final ad break before the closing credits, to be a bit irritating.
What I find more irritating than the number of ads is the frequency of some particular ads. Some are run back to back, some run in almost every ad break in a one hour period. Who thought this was a good idea?
Jul 15th 2010, 5:53 pm
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Re: What do you like about living in your part of Canada?
However, licensing fees should not be used to provide a service to foreigners. I know some of the BBC's funding comes out of general revenue, but my view was always to have it all come out of general revenue and have the BBC accept ads in their commercial programming. Which is essentially how the CBC works.
Should the tax payer be funding "Little mosque on the prarie"?...erm, no, no one should!
Jul 15th 2010, 5:54 pm
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Re: What do you like about living in your part of Canada?
The Weakerthans (Winnipeg)
The New Pornographers (BC)
Arcade Fire (Montreal)
Sloan (Halifax)
But you probably won't here them on any Canadian stations other than college radio or late at night on the Edge.
Jul 15th 2010, 5:58 pm
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Re: What do you like about living in your part of Canada?
Which is one of the reasons I never liked it, my cousin (who has lived abroad in a wide variety of exotic places) calls it the "British Bulls--t Corporation" because of the way they always make out how wonderful the UK is. I always find BBC news to be condescending when they start talking about foreign countries.
However, licensing fees should not be used to provide a service to foreigners. I know some of the BBC's funding comes out of general revenue, but my view was always to have it all come out of general revenue and have the BBC accept ads in their commercial programming. Which is essentially how the CBC works.
No, and they most certainly shouldn't be funding Eastenders either! Advertisers can do that.
However, licensing fees should not be used to provide a service to foreigners. I know some of the BBC's funding comes out of general revenue, but my view was always to have it all come out of general revenue and have the BBC accept ads in their commercial programming. Which is essentially how the CBC works.
No, and they most certainly shouldn't be funding Eastenders either! Advertisers can do that.
Jul 15th 2010, 5:58 pm
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Re: What do you like about living in your part of Canada?
That's often an economic indicator - not enough paying advertisers to go around, so they get repeated.
Jul 15th 2010, 5:58 pm
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While there may not be a case for funding Eastenders, I think there is a case for the World Service and for Little Mosque on the Prairie. In both cases tax payers money is being used to promote a positive image of the country in question. Little Mosque may not be funny but it projects the image of Canada around the world as the government would like the country to be seen.
Jul 15th 2010, 6:00 pm
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Re: What do you like about living in your part of Canada?
The stats that shalt not be doubted (despite a lack of qualifying linky dinks) states '18 minutes or so' of ads per televisual hour.
Whereas my baseless conjecture brazenly suggested 20 minutes per hour.
As bullshit guesses go, i am quite content with my summation!
Just saying.
Jul 15th 2010, 6:01 pm
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Re: What do you like about living in your part of Canada?
While there may not be a case for funding Eastenders, I think there is a case for the World Service and for Little Mosque on the Prairie. In both cases tax payers money is being used to promote a positive image of the country in question. Little Mosque may not be funny but it projects the image of Canada around the world as the government would like the country to be seen.
Jul 15th 2010, 6:01 pm
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Re: What do you like about living in your part of Canada?
Matthew Good, The Trews, Mobile, Sam Roberts, State of Shock, Big Sugar, Buck Cherry, Big Wreck, Alanis Morrisette, etc.
Jul 15th 2010, 6:02 pm
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Jul 15th 2010, 6:02 pm
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Re: What do you like about living in your part of Canada?
A vague guess of bullshit?
The stats that shalt not be doubted (despite a lack of qualifying linky dinks) states '18 minutes or so' of ads per televisual hour.
Whereas my baseless conjecture brazenly suggested 20 minutes per hour.
As bullshit guesses go, i am quite content with my summation!
Just saying.
The stats that shalt not be doubted (despite a lack of qualifying linky dinks) states '18 minutes or so' of ads per televisual hour.
Whereas my baseless conjecture brazenly suggested 20 minutes per hour.
As bullshit guesses go, i am quite content with my summation!
Just saying.