Comments on: CRTC Roundup: Shaw seeks CNN International license http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/09/05/crtc-roundup-shaw-seeks-cnn-international-license/ Can you think of a better name? Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:25:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fagstein http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/09/05/crtc-roundup-shaw-seeks-cnn-international-license/comment-page-1/#comment-90006 Fagstein Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:33:30 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=2554#comment-90006 The CRTC regulates both over-the-air and specialty cable channels. Canada's digital TV, whose changeover is scheduled for August 2011, will use the ATSC standard just like the U.S. Until then, the stations use their existing analog channels, many of which (in large urban areas or places near the U.S. border) are in the UHF band. The CRTC regulates both over-the-air and specialty cable channels.

Canada's digital TV, whose changeover is scheduled for August 2011, will use the ATSC standard just like the U.S. Until then, the stations use their existing analog channels, many of which (in large urban areas or places near the U.S. border) are in the UHF band.

]]> By: Stevie Blunder http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/09/05/crtc-roundup-shaw-seeks-cnn-international-license/comment-page-1/#comment-89964 Stevie Blunder Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:58:52 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=2554#comment-89964 Forty years ago, in my hometown in Northern Alberta, I was appalled by the people who preferred the trash on the new private network TV station (CTV), over good old CBC TV. So I understand the, perhaps Victorian, attitude of the CRTC. And I have seen Canadian Government mandates like Petro-Can and Canadian content requirements lead to some very good things. I live in the US now and I know the Canadian made media that we get here would not exist if the Canadian entertainment industry did not have government support. However, your discussion on channels rejected by the CRTC reminds me of efforts by the red Chinese government to block certain Internet addresses. Do you have a page/link describing the mandate of the CRTC? For example, do they “regulate” cable channels or are cable networks considered private and not under CRTC jurisdiction? Most OTA digital channels here in the US are carried on UHF. There were very few UHF channels in Canada 11 years ago when I left. Is that still the case? I take it that Canada decided on the OTA digital standard ATSC? It seems that the European DVB/T standard works much better than ATSC in urban environments, although perhaps urban viewers are largely the domain of cable systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television The US government mandated transition to digital seemed a bit force fed like the Canadian government mandates above, but I have to say it has stimulated the industry to move in a positive direction it would not have taken left alone. Digital TV is complicated, as evidenced by the fact that even my cable company (Comcast) has not really mastered it yet. The technology, like the issues of content regulation, seems to tax the limits of human intelligence. Hopefully, time will make things clearer. US TV is like it’s people, a mix of the best and the worst. I think it’s a mistake to enforce our personal taste on others. If we support those who produce quality material, viewers will gravitate to it and there is no need for heavy-handed “regulation”. Ultimately, digital media convergence will make cable and OTA TV systems obsolete and these issues irrelevant. Will the CRTC then attempt to regulate the Internet like red China? Forty years ago, in my hometown in Northern Alberta, I was appalled by the people who preferred the trash on the new private network TV station (CTV), over good old CBC TV. So I understand the, perhaps Victorian, attitude of the CRTC. And I have seen Canadian Government mandates like Petro-Can and Canadian content requirements lead to some very good things. I live in the US now and I know the Canadian made media that we get here would not exist if the Canadian entertainment industry did not have government support.

However, your discussion on channels rejected by the CRTC reminds me of efforts by the red Chinese government to block certain Internet addresses. Do you have a page/link describing the mandate of the CRTC? For example, do they “regulate” cable channels or are cable networks considered private and not under CRTC jurisdiction?

Most OTA digital channels here in the US are carried on UHF. There were very few UHF channels in Canada 11 years ago when I left. Is that still the case? I take it that Canada decided on the OTA digital standard ATSC? It seems that the European DVB/T standard works much better than ATSC in urban environments, although perhaps urban viewers are largely the domain of cable systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television

The US government mandated transition to digital seemed a bit force fed like the Canadian government mandates above, but I have to say it has stimulated the industry to move in a positive direction it would not have taken left alone. Digital TV is complicated, as evidenced by the fact that even my cable company (Comcast) has not really mastered it yet. The technology, like the issues of content regulation, seems to tax the limits of human intelligence. Hopefully, time will make things clearer.

US TV is like it’s people, a mix of the best and the worst. I think it’s a mistake to enforce our personal taste on others. If we support those who produce quality material, viewers will gravitate to it and there is no need for heavy-handed “regulation”.
Ultimately, digital media convergence will make cable and OTA TV systems obsolete and these issues irrelevant. Will the CRTC then attempt to regulate the Internet like red China?

]]> By: Cris http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/09/05/crtc-roundup-shaw-seeks-cnn-international-license/comment-page-1/#comment-49305 Cris Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:45:56 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=2554#comment-49305 I for one don't like Shaw Cable or the CRTC, I get American signals through Dish Network. Until we completely destroy this monopoly driven commission that our taxes pay then we can start enjoying TV again. I speak Spanish and therefore like watching Spanish programming, Univision, and Galavision isn't available in Canada because the CRTC believes that it we love Telelatino which is nothing more than Italian TV and maybe one or two Spanish shows a week. And for this reason I will always pay for this American service where competition decides prices unlike this country were monopolies not only occur but are encouraged and heavily protected. I for one don't like Shaw Cable or the CRTC, I get American signals through Dish Network. Until we completely destroy this monopoly driven commission that our taxes pay then we can start enjoying TV again. I speak Spanish and therefore like watching Spanish programming, Univision, and Galavision isn't available in Canada because the CRTC believes that it we love Telelatino which is nothing more than Italian TV and maybe one or two Spanish shows a week. And for this reason I will always pay for this American service where competition decides prices unlike this country were monopolies not only occur but are encouraged and heavily protected.

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