Steve Simmons in his Last Word column in yesterday's Ottawa Sun reports that Terrell Owens, of the Buffalo-Toronto Bills', Cable TV show ranked 798th in last weeks ratings.
That cannot be good.
Can it?
WFDS
Showing posts with label Cable TV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cable TV. Show all posts
Monday, August 17, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
318...MP's Are Going To Make The CRTC Decide
What to do to save local TV.
I mean "save" local TV.
Jennifer Ditchburn writes that "The Canadian Press has learned that a majority report by the House of Commons heritage committee, to be tabled Friday, makes no recommendation about whether broadcasters should be able to charge cable companies for carrying their signals, referred to as 'fee for carriage.'''
My stand is that the CRTC should take a close look at the American model which only allows local channels on the cable systems in the community that they serve. As it stands now I get, and I like this, don't get me wrong, network affiliates from the Atlantic to the Pacific and back. What CTV, CBC, E! et. al. are doing is cannibalizing the industry. In my town, Ottawa, we have 16 over the air channels but virtually all of them are repeaters of Toronto signals. If CITY, TVO, Global and on and on want to have a presence in the Ottawa-Gatineau market that is great but they should have a local operation running local news, programming and so on. It gets worse in markets like London, Kitchener, Sudbury, North Bay, Thunder Bay and and and and.
TV tells stories. Watch local American stations and you will get a feel for the community that the station is intended to serve through its programming and the fact that it offers local business advertising at reasonable rates. When watching Canadian TV note that most of the advertising, even on local stations, is for national or regional stores and product lines.
It is time to save and enhance local TV, create jobs and although it is difficult for us to admit that the damn Yankees do stuff right, the Americans do do local media, including TV, better than we do, in small and big markets.
WFDS
I mean "save" local TV.
Jennifer Ditchburn writes that "The Canadian Press has learned that a majority report by the House of Commons heritage committee, to be tabled Friday, makes no recommendation about whether broadcasters should be able to charge cable companies for carrying their signals, referred to as 'fee for carriage.'''
My stand is that the CRTC should take a close look at the American model which only allows local channels on the cable systems in the community that they serve. As it stands now I get, and I like this, don't get me wrong, network affiliates from the Atlantic to the Pacific and back. What CTV, CBC, E! et. al. are doing is cannibalizing the industry. In my town, Ottawa, we have 16 over the air channels but virtually all of them are repeaters of Toronto signals. If CITY, TVO, Global and on and on want to have a presence in the Ottawa-Gatineau market that is great but they should have a local operation running local news, programming and so on. It gets worse in markets like London, Kitchener, Sudbury, North Bay, Thunder Bay and and and and.
TV tells stories. Watch local American stations and you will get a feel for the community that the station is intended to serve through its programming and the fact that it offers local business advertising at reasonable rates. When watching Canadian TV note that most of the advertising, even on local stations, is for national or regional stores and product lines.
It is time to save and enhance local TV, create jobs and although it is difficult for us to admit that the damn Yankees do stuff right, the Americans do do local media, including TV, better than we do, in small and big markets.
WFDS
Saturday, May 16, 2009
122...Panhandling
I am seeing the talent on Ottawa's A Channel panning for support from the government instead of actually, um, being entertaining. Please, clue in, the way to make money in the entertainment business is to entertain. Plus, as the Detroit stations we get on cable here in Ottawa illustrate, local is key.
In what is a visual medium you would think they could find hot people to read the news too, not just on A, on any channel in this town, this Canada. By hot I mean currently hot, not formerly hot, not hot in a certain light but hot, currently hot, like Shay Ryan from 7WXYZ Detroit [who is now on FOX5, New York], ESPN's Erin Andrews, CBS's Katie Couric etc.
I know this is anathema to the politically correct, but being hot, does not mean one is not competent. Cup size is not inverse to IQ.
The national sports channels get it, they are rife with fine looking [men and] women who also are great at reporting le sports.
WFDS
In what is a visual medium you would think they could find hot people to read the news too, not just on A, on any channel in this town, this Canada. By hot I mean currently hot, not formerly hot, not hot in a certain light but hot, currently hot, like Shay Ryan from 7WXYZ Detroit [who is now on FOX5, New York], ESPN's Erin Andrews, CBS's Katie Couric etc.
I know this is anathema to the politically correct, but being hot, does not mean one is not competent. Cup size is not inverse to IQ.
The national sports channels get it, they are rife with fine looking [men and] women who also are great at reporting le sports.
WFDS
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