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I don't want to wait for the news to come on. It also takes forever for the tv news to spin out a story. I don't have an hour to watch the news. And I want to view it when it's convenient for me.
Community access tv is not important to me. Canadian programming is generally awful and unwatchable. It doesn't reflect Canada as I experience it. It seems to reflect what programmers think I should see Canada as.
It also seems to just be copying American trends and "Canadianifying" them. What do you think programming will look like in the next 5 to 10 years? I don't see programmed television lasting that long. I cannot fathom why anyone pays for cable anymore. The CRTC and CBC lack normal intelligence and seemed stunned all the time no matter what issue is being discussed in news and around the world. Hi everyone, Sarah from the Rogers Social Media team here.
Rogers fully supports changes to the current TV model. We're also listening to your suggestions here, so keep them coming! Because you buy up "content", then hoard it. Once you own the "content" you only want to show it using your own distribution channels. And you seem to be proud of this hoarding: Available only through Rogers! Oh Sarah : You seem so sad. You come around to various forums and post things like Rogers supports this or Rogers supports that..
You jsut don't come across as sincere. I am sure you mean well. But those of us who deal with Rogers know what the company is about. It is nice that they hire naive young people for their Social Media Team t tell us how much Rogers agrees with us. But what Rogers should really do instead is to implement the things you say they support.
Actions speak louder than words. Good luck Sarah. I really mean that. My preferences for content are alot less meaningful than my preferences for delivery of that content. My increasing frustration with TV reached a turning point this year and I finally did what I have been wanting to do for a long time. I cancelled my broadcast TV Satellite. Children's programming, comedy, drama All can be obtained through Netflix and that is all that matters.
And if it can't then I can live without it. Oh WOW! Canadian content? You want to enforce "Canadian content" by forcing TV channels to broadcast more of it?
I'll bypass those TV channels altogether. You think you can go after Netflix for not having enough Canadian Content? Let me be clear: I don't give a darn about Canadian content and I think that this notion that you can control content is so outdated. People will get the content that they want according to the content, not its source. It is of no importance. Why: I get it all the information I need from the Internet. This has no bearing on my disgust with TV. For example, I click on a little link for my city under news.
Nobody does anything interesting locally anyway. And if they did, they would automatically appear on the Internet feeds I view anyway. Nobody cares my friend The CRTC will probably not exist anymore. All TV will be delivered on demand, available by content, with absolutely no governance of where content comes from. And I won't get that idiotic message about so and so having the distribution rights to this program in Canada VPN ON.. US IP address The Canadian government has no place in the bedrooms of Canadians One of the problems we have with television is that we live in a land of plenty - as in we don't want plenty of it!
This is value? This is customer choice? Now how long would that grocery store stay in business? I want to choose and pay for only the channels I want! Update - yet another price increase from Shaw Direct — up another 6.
This increase is required in order to bring me more than 5, on-demand choices I have worked with Rogers on and off and have a relationship like that of a Rihanna and Chris Brown.
We perhaps can be described as being in a love hate relationship. They love hating me and the feelings are mutual so believe me as opinionated as my commentary might be Rogers and I complete each other Now I need to take a shower! I for one have been disappointed over the lack of interest by local broadcasters to produce engaging content in a highly competitive market, instead they themselves have become consumers rather than enriched content producers providing a valuable export.
This is one show that would be successful no matter where you air it. Unlike Canadian Idol and Canada's got talent that was a poor man's attempt to capitalize off an American market, Canadian's need to produce more content for a better TV, and FILM industry and bypass restrictive production laws that make it less appealing to create content here.
Now to show my age there were others such as Degrassi, the Friendly Giant, Littlest Hobo, Pasquale the singing chef but seriously in today's market what are we selling? Our film industry has been great with movies like X-Men, Resident Evil, and a few others coming to shoot here but how many people knew that movies like Police Academy was produced by CityTv? Sad to see what has become of it, wouldn't you agree? We need our broadcasters to be leaders of innovative and productive television and film production.
They have the means of distribution, they have the means of production but they refuse to invest and spend on in house productions, local coverage, and content creation. Lately their focus has been on sports because it takes no creativity on their end and profit is gained by shares in ticket sales, merchandise, and as bad as our teams are, people still watch all the commentary shows.
Sad really. The excuses being made by these Broadcasters is that people will watch on their computers or people will watch on their iPads and nobody wants to watch Canadian content when they have so many options. Did you notice how the argument focuses on the revenue model and not the content of what people are watching? It also begs to ask why they can't produce the content that people want to watch and supply it on all platforms Now for those geniuses that say well we can order Netflix and I can get my news online unrestricted by borders and regulations, yes this is true.
What is mainstream? Things that the masses watch. Your local news is mainstream because you need to know what is going on in your neighbourhood.
Sports is mainstream, regardless of what team you support you will likely turn on your tv to watch it, not stream from the Internet unless its a PPV. Shame on you , but then you have shows like Break Out Kings, that only appeal to niche audiences that need help to grow.
Then you have channels like TLN and Omni, you might not speak the language that is being aired but that content holds the same weight of representation to others that TLN and Omni produces it's content for as it would to somebody who speaks English, they need help.
Some people have kids and some don't, so we need more educational children's programming, we need more programs that appeal to audiences of different needs and flavours. I am a black single father. That means I need cultural content from my background, I need my pro wrestling insert sport or show of preference and I need something that will enrich both my daughter's education and mine, but we need our broadcasters to produce competitive content.
Deal or No Deal? Another great Canadian export. For example, your like a child who looks at a pizza slice and sees his friend get two slices so mommy says alright, turns around slices your one slice in two and you celebrate. Just so you can eliminate the French channel you don't watch?
You can think of TV like health care, yes the masses are paying but you are free to watch what you want when you want whenever you want, if you dropped bundling you would only be increasing the price on a per channel bases only to reduce the variety and options. Rogers says thank you by the way. The TV business is finished. It's over. And the CRTC will never be able to regulate the internet. Canadian TV has been hijacked by ideologues and partisan interests which will always translate into bad ratings.
And now comes the panic because everyone is cancelling their cable TV. The internet allows Canadians to stream and download content from anywhere at anytime. When you allow bureaucrats to micromanage the cultural industries and the creation of content, the audience disappears.
The ratings for Canadian news-casts are now at historic lows. Advertising dollars are disappearing because nobody sits through commercials. All we need is high speed internet and a VPN application. Viewers and consumers are now in control. Broadcasters have lost their influence and their relevance. Why is Rick Mercer still on TV and why are my tax dollars being used to further his liberal agenda? I object to paying for French channels when I don't watch them.
I generally like the content we have on tv, but I wish we could get more local channels as we have Bell satellite and no fine as we live in a rural area, so we really have no competition to choose from.
Why do the French channels have history channel in he and the English Channel does not? On a few occasions I have e-mailed the CRTC as well as the program director of the news program, about inappropriate comments and newscasts during hours when children would be awake. Basically the responses,were the same with both the CRTC and the program director not caring about what is shown on TV during times when children would be watching. The letters often were word for word the same. In otherwords things haven't changed.
What a money waster. Less than an hour's drive from our provincial capital, we cannot access local channels without raising a 40ft tower. We use the internet for our news and Netflix for entertainment. We do not watch sports with any regularity, reality shows wore our patience thin long ago, we do miss the History and Discovery Channels; we are considering AppleTV so we can watch some of these channels as a family again. Unfortunately there are some evenings that will not be available due to poor 'high-speed internet' services in our area.
Our viewing, if given a choice, would be educational channels History, Discovery, Space, Movies, and Local for news. Our Teens access their favorite shows online now anyway, so no need to add all the kid channels we required a decade ago. The CRTC has no purpose. Please ban ALL over-content advertising. It is extremley annoying to be watcing a show and have an ad appear over the show.
Right now ads run for minutes. That should be mmore than enough. And that includes ads for upcoming shows. ALL over-content ads should be outright banned with no exceptions. This is the one thing that will make me cancel cable. Thanks CRTC for taking the lead on looking after the interests of Canadians and not the big cable companies. I believe Canadians are sick of the high prices, poor service and not so great products.
We really have to make the cable companies more competitive. That being said I cut off my cable TV service some years ago when they started charging me for High Definition, That was the last straw. I put up an antenna on my roof and I receive about 21 high definition channels in high definition I live in the West GTA and that is plenty for me and the rest of the family. The best thing is that it is all free. What I really miss though is watching Canadian Football.
I was an avid fan and we used to go to the games but since TSN bought up the broadcast rights I can no longer get the games. I kind of feel that we sold off a bit of our Canadian Heritage and Culture to the highest bidder.
CBC - if you are listening to this blog - bid higher next time or simply make your own internet channel for Canadian Sports. I know I will subscribe. Speaking of the internet, I subscribe to Netflix and watching the shows on Netflix when you want and without commercials has changed the way my family watches TV.
I also figured out a way to get the American Netflix which has much greater selection. Going back to watch regular shows with all those commercials now is a painful exerpience. Programmers really need to find a better way to monetise their products. CRTC - great idea to unbundle televisions shows. The only way I would consider going back to cable TV is if I could choose and pay for only the channels I wanted to watch.
My family and I watch sorts of programming, from children's programs to dramas to sports and even some documentaries. The problem here in Canada is that we are hand-cuffed as viewers by the "Canadian Content" rules.
I understand the importance of Canadian Content to allow Canadians to showcase their work and so on but really in a subscription based system as we have for cable, satellite and even Netflix why does that even come into play. I choose to have a Netflix membership and I should have the right to its full content "Canadian Content" or not I also pay for TV channels from the US and should have to right to watch the actual programming being played on that channel and not some piggy back CTV broadcast.
I deliberately choose to watch the American channel - example Super-bowl Sunday, I want to see the game but many people do actually watch the game to see the commercials. Allow us the right to watch what we want not what you decide we should watch. As for picking and choosing channels I fear that the cost of said channels will jumped to a stupid level.
As it stands now, most programming is costly garbage. Approx 80 channels, at least 20 of them CBC. No real entertainment ex. Amazing Race , but 20 channels show hockey or other garbage. Who cares about Canadian programs?
Beside Dragons Den, Traier Park Boys all canadian programs are not worth watching and a total waste of tax money to make them. CRTC should get to work and create a TV system that will please Canadian tax payer, not the ego of socialist government stooges! There seems to be less and less variety of content these days. New shows are only continued if they appeal to a wild audience and obtain sky high ratings, everything else gets cancelled.
All you seem to get on TV now is these widely popular shows and their repeats. New channels authorized by the CRTC seem to be nothing but existing programming from existing channels and then mostly repeats.
I think TV shows are getting better and better I rarely watch movies anymore, because TV is getting so good. I'm talking about primetime scripted shows. I dislike reality shows. Response: Ad free children's programming, news, prime time scripted shows.
Response: I usually want to know if the show is Canadian, but a lot of the time it is so I don't watch it. Although Cdn TV is getting better, ie Motive. Response: local is about my city. I never watch it. Response: it's somewhat reflective but not fully, it's not that multicultural. I guess I don't notice it that much though. I would like to be able to watch the shows I want to watch, not necessarily the channel, when I want to. I hope it will move toward that model.
But if it does, I don't know how channels will stay in business since they are filled with mostly junk for large portions of the day. I don't channel surf. I prerecord what I want. All your listed content is important to someone at some time me included. If Canada can make good quality programming all the more power to Canada and I will watch it. Local programming should be more geared towards near to me.
In the past I had relied on local news coming from my local radio station but even that is all national news now. Nothing local at all other then the paper. I think something valuable has been lost. I think the best shows are not on traditional broadcast TV. Because of the current situation of packaging crappy channels in with good ones we have joined the growing number of people who are unplugged and are now simply streaming TV content that we want to watch.
I was shocked to find a great Canadian series no longer being made on US Netflix, not available on the Canadian version of Netflix go figure. I think that is the future of TV. Was tired of nothing being on when I was ready to watch tv. Now, I sit down click Netflix, go to Discovery online or a host of other services and find what I want when I want it. The programs most important to me are the programs I watch regularly. There are other programs I have watched or that sound intersting that I might see when looking through the channel guide.
The programs I like run the gamut from comedy, documentaries, drama to reality shows and cartoons. I know some of the shows that are Canadian some because I have watched them for years, some because they have "Canadian" in the title, some have the local look to it and others are highly promoted or I know by word of mouth.
It would be important for me to know a program is Canadian simply because as a Canadian I would like to see the shows that our country is producing. It would also be interesting to see local shows and know how they are doing on the North American stage. I consider local television to be programs about my province. Local news is important to me because I like to know what is happening in the city or province that I live in. It is not as important to get it on TV because I can get it easily on the web or on the radio.
However it is more convenient to have it on the TV. I don't think the programming on television is fully reflective but it is getting better with shows like Flashpoint and to some degree The Listner. My biggest compaint about cable programming is that the relationship between the original license for a titled cable channel and its current content seems to have divergent paths. Why is Castle on Space? Why is Ice Road Truckers on History?
I make purchase choices based on my viewing preferences and then monolithic cable companies make bulk purchases on serialized shows and flog them around their entire cable channel lineup. Is this not false advertising? I understand the why of canadian content and the support the industry needs. But you know what after soo many years of supporting shows nobody watches i'm getting tired of it.
If only canadian content was not be so awful. CRTC let it go. Second, the basic package has to go and give us the choice to select the channels we want. Now of course the bells and rogers' of this world will cry like little girls, like they did this past summer, but i see absolutely no compeling reason to start off the package at bucks!
Finally, the signal substitution is the biggest fraud ever. I pay to have that american channel, and I pay good money. What the hell gives you the right to impose signal substitution so that the 'local' broadcaster can get more money for their advertising. They're already being subsidized! And oh ya bell and rogers gloabl need a boost for advertising.
Of course that won't happen because they got yoo in their pockets. Just let us choose what channels we want. Response: The most important to me are children's programming, documentaries, drama and sports. They are important because they represent areas where television programming has a sufficient level of quality and should be encouraged. Other forms of programming that are bland,sensationalistic and crude are often found in reality TV and comedy shows.
Television news has become less about objective presentation of the facts of current events and more aboutproducing an entertainmnet product. As a result,I now rarely watch television newscasts and rely mainly on internet sources. Response: Often I do know which programs are Canadian but it is not important. What is important is good quality television programming.
This long has been the consumer's main requirement. Canadian content is irrelevant. What is important is quality content. For example, the best English drama programming in neither Canadian or American but British.
Response - I consider local TV program about my city. Local news is important but I get it mainly via radio or internet. I rarely go to local television news. Community TV is low on my priority list and I rarely watch it. Response: A reflection of Canada's culture, etc on television is not important to me as a single metric. What is important is quality television.
If a program is of high quality and happens to be about some aspect of Canada, then it becomes important. If it is of low quality, not compelling and is Canadian, the fact it is about Canada does not make it any more important.
It is simply not worth watching. Programming will become more fragmented over the next five to 10 years with less control exercised by traditional media distribution companies and more content being conveyed over the internet.
It is coming and Netflix is a good example of the glimpse of the future. Local news is extremely important but as more and more channels are put on the air, the programming becomes much more watered-down and it becomes tougher for local businesses to participate in advertising, which keeps locals stations on the air. I guess my point is to allow local television broadcasters access to cable channels to advertise local businesses just as national advertisers.
Like it or not, advertising keeps stations on the air. What do I think about what's on the air? Repeats and nothing but repeats. Favorite Canadian dramas. Orphan Black by a mile. Big Republic of Doyle fan. Watch Continuum religously. I wonder if we had had higher PVR and VOD penetration when some of those shows were cancelled, whether they might have lasted longer? Perhaps better measurement data that includes PVR,VOD and broadband play would demonstrate there are more popular Canadian shows than debate suggests sometimes.
Programmes that are Canadian produced, Canadian content and both national and global in scope. We prefer educational programming that makes us think, not based on American shlock. We prefer documentaries, historical programmes, nature and environment The Nature of Things , deep thinking dramas, and good thought-provoking comedies satirical, like Rick Mercer, and loved Little Mosque on the Prairie and Royal Canadian Air Farce, both of which were sadly cancelled.
Also investigative journalism such as The Fifth Estate. Foreign programming would be appreciated, such as BBC. When we watch the telly, it's either CBC. Even The WeatherNetwork. We prefer reading and watching at our leisure, rather than being tied down to a time eg. We have recently signed on to Netflix in order to watch movies without commercials.
Most of the programming we watch is Canadian because we choose that, specifically. We check out programmes beforehand on the websites to see where they have been produced and which networks are carrying them. We consciously avoid American broadcasters and channels. We are Canadian, not American, therefore, we want to watch programmes that are produced here in Canada, supporting our Canadian industry, are about Canadian issues, or Canadian comedy.
Very little of that exists, with the exception of what you can hear on the radio. Canadian television programming is very Toronto-centred, or else Canada-centred, which is fine, as long as good representation of Canada is included. If all the shows produced here are emphasising life in the East Coast, for example, then we are doing a disservice to the rest of Canada.
Recent programmes such as Republic of Doyle, Dragon's Den, Murdoch Mysteries and Heartland are doing a pretty good job of bring entertaining Canadian television to Canadians.
Local television news is important if it truly reflects the local area. Local news is important to keep the community connected. Many local stations eg.
The rest is just regurgitated from the main CTV broadcast out of Toronto, or else using syndicated news from the US to boost up their programme. Rogers Cable does offer local news stories with minimal programming, but it is very amateurish at times. Nevertheless, at least they are providing local news and events. World and national news we only seek using on-line sources as already mentioned, in order to read the stories at our convenience and as soon as we hear about them, rather than waiting for the evening.
It used to be, very much so. But sadly, the diversity of Canadian culture on TV has been greatly reduced over the years. There needs to be more representation from Canada's first nations people. Whether or not North of 60 was, or Arctic Air is, truly representative is a bit of a moot point. At least these programmes highlight issues that affect the North and first nations. Canada's multi-cultural make-up needs to be better represented on television as well.
Very sorry when Little Mosque on the Prairie was cancelled. Also, a programme like King of Kensington really gave a great overview of the cultural richness and diversity of Toronto. Vision TV is good at bringing a variety of cultural and religious programming to Canadians as long as they can still access it through their cable networks. The CRTC needs to continue to strictly regulate Canadian content, in particular, content that better reflects the diversity of Canadian culture.
Not necessarily programmes that restrict viewership, but integrate all cultures together, as Little Mosque so neatly did. Thre is also a richness of European and Asian culture here, why can't we have more programmes accessible to all, in English as well as French, Punjabi, or Ojibway, for example.
However, as Canada's official languages are English and French, most programming should be in those languages in order to be accessible to the most people watching. Good question. Certainly our TV watching has changed remarkably over the past 10 years.
We have moved from very TV based to watching more programmes on the computer - podcasts, i-TV and Netflix have revolutionised the way we schedule our entertainment time. Personally, we detest commercials, and therefore are watching more and more of our programmes on the computer to get away from the constant bombardment of commercial broadcasting.
Having lived in the UK for several years, it was heaven to be able to watch 7 different channels of the BBC, all without commercials. The BBC provided extremely high calibre of programming, local, national and global in scope, which appealed to all interest types.
Yes, we had to pay for a yearly TV licence, which today costs Not to mention the extra channels on the BBC "red button" options. The BBC also provides many of their programmes on-line for those who may not have the opportunity to watch them when they are broadcast. We would love to see options like that here.
The TV licence money generated partially covered programme costs in lieu of commercial revenues. The UK government, however, is also commited to producing high-calibre, intelligent television programmes and therefore they have a culture budget that does not cut corners. It would be a breath of fresh air if our current government supported the arts, culture and intelligent broadcasting here as well, rather than constantly cutting the budget of the CBC and CRTC. As technology continues to become more and more about personal choice, personal time and self-regulation of our entertainment choices, so must TV broadcasting have to change.
There should be less reliance on a monoploy of only 2 or 3 cable providers, and more options for cable choice in the UK, we had a huge selection of what cable provider we wanted to use, and cable prices were MUCH cheaper there than here - we were shocked when we returned home to find the ridiculous prices for just basic cable.
Being able to choose which channels we would like to watch, rather than being forced to have dozens of channels we don't watch, is now the way to go. Being able to selectively choose which channels we want to watch is a much more sensible idea. I have never been so fed- up with Canadian t. When is the CRTC going to force t.
To Date I was forced to watchthe Canadian production: "Played" as there was only otherrepeat programs to watch, "Played" was totally pitiful for me to watch. I now, avoid watching any Canadian Production Allocate 4 or 5 t. FORCE the present t. Thank You, Discusted. Hi again: Here is what I think about Canadian t. There is absoutely nothing to watch for entertanment Why do I have to pay the same rediculous monthly bills to watch repeat programming, over, and over, and over again Does this seem fair to the CRTC???
It is past time when the CRTC must enforce gidelines to make these corporations accountable for their actions: 1. Require all t. Canada can not provide a canadian actor that can act, acanadian producer that can produce any thing worth watching,,or a canadian director that can direct a decent movie, or show We will have no choice but to get rid of our t.
WHERE will the television industry be when no one will watch their rotten t. We all may have to do what others have already done, cancell our satellite or cable t. Rent movies from our local stores or from Netflix Reality is limited to The Amazing Race and Survivor. I like to be entertained foremost and informed what is going on.
Generally, if it is on CBC it is Canadian, not that I watch much other than the occasional Rick Mercer, maybe the Nature of Things, and the one that follows if the topic is of interest. The local news is the most important programming on local channels.
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