Or give a flying f*ck.
Case in point: An Ottawa Police officer was killed, allegedly murdered yesterday morning by an RCMP officer.
One of the biggest local stories in the history of your Nation's Capital.
It is the day after, noon, and where is local TV?
CBC is running their noon national news and giving this important case about 10 of the first 20 minutes that they are on.
But it is national.
The local stations, well, on the English side, nothing. Ottawa's alleged newsleader, CTV News/CJOH is showing the Team Canada selection. Ditto their sister station, A Channel. On the French side, nothing but the Team Canada selection on Radio Canada and dubbed American reruns on TVA and TQS as I write this at 12 20 pm. Six local TV stations plus a dozen repeaters and nothing local.
If this horrible crime had of happened in Detroit or Buffalo or DC or or or you know, you know that they would have been all over it, Live Eye, Local 4, Eyewitness News, wall to frigging wall.
Please let Ian Morrison and the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting in on this.
WFDS
The "local TV matters" campaign by the networks is nothing more than a marketing campaign to try to have the CRTC make a decision in their favour with regard to their ongoing battle with the cable companies.
ReplyDeleteWhen that decision is finally handed down the closure of local TV stations by these same networks will continue regardless of what is that decision.
Welcome to Pleasantville. Do you really think Uncle Max would have kept his job for so long if he was in another market?
ReplyDeleteWhat this might do is perhaps get the OPS to stop covering for Mountie excesses. The RCMP is out of control and this is just another example.