http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/06/30/channel-zero-offers-to-buy-cjnt-chch/ Can you think of a better name? Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:25:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/06/30/channel-zero-offers-to-buy-cjnt-chch/comment-page-1/#comment-160000 Fagstein Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:02:11 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=6080#comment-160000 Would you prefer they just piped in prepackaged content they got from elsewhere, like the other networks are doing? Fewer glitches that way. Would you prefer they just piped in prepackaged content they got from elsewhere, like the other networks are doing? Fewer glitches that way.

]]> http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/06/30/channel-zero-offers-to-buy-cjnt-chch/comment-page-1/#comment-159916 Mick Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:47:29 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=6080#comment-159916 I've been watching CHCH occasionally for a few years now and was intrigued by last year's panic and eventual saviour act by CZ. Since the resurrection, their programming expertise seems to have vanished, as if they've started to, and can continue to, bumble along, without consequence. The regular bloopers and on air "glitches" just seem to be getting more and more common, as if they don't care how they rate in their peer group, particularly in terms of putting on a professional show and product. Their latest advertising campaign to sell, well, their own advertising spots of all things, may be the red flag signalling the beginning of the end for them. Pity. I would wholeheartedly wish some of them well, while wondering what the rest of them are even doing in professional broadcasting. I've been watching CHCH occasionally for a few years now and was intrigued by last year's panic and eventual saviour act by CZ. Since the resurrection, their programming expertise seems to have vanished, as if they've started to, and can continue to, bumble along, without consequence. The regular bloopers and on air "glitches" just seem to be getting more and more common, as if they don't care how they rate in their peer group, particularly in terms of putting on a professional show and product. Their latest advertising campaign to sell, well, their own advertising spots of all things, may be the red flag signalling the beginning of the end for them.
Pity. I would wholeheartedly wish some of them well, while wondering what the rest of them are even doing in professional broadcasting.

]]> http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/06/30/channel-zero-offers-to-buy-cjnt-chch/comment-page-1/#comment-92476 Peter Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:12:31 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=6080#comment-92476 So, what happens to Donna Skelly's initiative? Is it dead, or, does the "spirit" and "intent" of the Skelly initiative get absorbed or quashed into the Zero plan? Someone should get some off-the-record feedback from Donna on how her energies are being utililized. -peter So, what happens to Donna Skelly's initiative? Is it dead, or, does the "spirit" and "intent" of the Skelly initiative get absorbed or quashed into the Zero plan? Someone should get some off-the-record feedback from Donna on how her energies are being utililized. -peter

]]> http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/06/30/channel-zero-offers-to-buy-cjnt-chch/comment-page-1/#comment-92037 Fagstein » CRTC okays CJNT, CHCH purchase Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:31:46 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=6080#comment-92037 [...] recall Channel Zero and Canwest announced in June that they’d reached a deal to purchase the money-losing stations. It was a win-win for both [...] [...] recall Channel Zero and Canwest announced in June that they’d reached a deal to purchase the money-losing stations. It was a win-win for both [...]

]]> http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/06/30/channel-zero-offers-to-buy-cjnt-chch/comment-page-1/#comment-88190 Fagstein » CRTC Roundup: Details on CJNT/CHCH sale Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:55:52 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=6080#comment-88190 [...] Montreal and CHCH Hamilton. The application includes some goodies we didn’t hear about in the announcement in [...] [...] Montreal and CHCH Hamilton. The application includes some goodies we didn’t hear about in the announcement in [...]

]]> http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/06/30/channel-zero-offers-to-buy-cjnt-chch/comment-page-1/#comment-87720 Fagstein » Mixed news at small Global, CTV stations Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:58:20 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=6080#comment-87720 [...] Hamilton and CJNT Montreal will be sold to a company called Channel Zero for a grand total of [...] [...] Hamilton and CJNT Montreal will be sold to a company called Channel Zero for a grand total of [...]

]]> http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/06/30/channel-zero-offers-to-buy-cjnt-chch/comment-page-1/#comment-85215 Fagstein Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:03:19 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=6080#comment-85215 You still have Global Quebec (CKMI). It's the E! simulcasts that will probably end, which includes things like the Late Show with David Letterman. You still have Global Quebec (CKMI). It's the E! simulcasts that will probably end, which includes things like the Late Show with David Letterman.

]]> http://blog.fagstein.com/2009/06/30/channel-zero-offers-to-buy-cjnt-chch/comment-page-1/#comment-85179 Shawn Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:54:40 +0000 http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=6080#comment-85179 Well, for better or for worse we may not have Global's hamfisted simulcasts to gripe about in Montreal, anymore. Well, for better or for worse we may not have Global's hamfisted simulcasts to gripe about in Montreal, anymore.

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