Less for More!

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Thane_Bitter join:2005-01-20 London	Less for More! There is little local to save, CSV owned A channel news is a farcical joke; the local newspaper (owned by SUN) is equally decrepit. Since many of the "local" TV stations are networked owned (which are partly held by the Cable & Satellite companies) they really should point the finger at themselves rather then go on a government mandated fishing expedition in the consumer’s wallet. Rogers is planning to dump the various American PBS stations (many of which are local to Canadian cites) with one PBS station out of Detroit. Rogers have used the flimsy justification of HD (though most of the other PBS stations involved are broadcasting in HD already), or ‘improving’ service. »www.digitalhome.ca/content/view/3902/279/ Rogers Corp is merely interesting in provided the least amount of service for the maximum amount of profit - if they could outsource anymore of their ‘Local TV’ they would have. “Give us your wallet and watch our commercials” -- Life - A bitter little ray of sunshine.
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koreyb Replace the CRTC NOW join:2005-01-08 Etobicoke, ON Reviews: ·TekSavvy Cable ·3 Web ·voip.ms ·Primus Talkbroad.. ·TekSavvy DSL	said by Thane_Bitter: There is little local to save, CSV owned A channel news is a farcical joke; the local newspaper (owned by SUN) is equally decrepit. The issue with the A's all went down when CHUM was sold to CTV. When that happened, CTV owns ALL PRIVATE LOCAL TV in SOUTHERN ONTARIO.. They have no competition, no reason to even try. In the case of London, CFPL under Baton ownership really was cut dry... CHUM invested millions to bring the station back to the city, locally. Then was sold.. and here we are with CTV back to the chopping block. Like the CHUM style of NEWS presentation, or not it seemed that only under CHUM's ownership that the station was really turning the camera on the city it served instead of giving me 10 min of local news and the rest from Toronto, Vancover or some other place. (look at CKCO and the joke it has become under CTV ownership)
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Thane_Bitter join:2005-01-20 London	Having been stuck with CFLP I have to disagree about CHUM, having watched their station in Toronto I had high hopes that London would improve, it didn't. CHUM, CTV and Baton each milked out revenue while stripping the station bare. When CHUM(P) took over they replaced the news anchor with a man that had great difficulty in enunciating, he later moved over to Rogers local dog & pony production (an equally as bad, but shorter news cast). They also merged the master control operations to Toronto. The noon news also was cancelled around the change of ownership (not sure if it was CHUM or CTV); however the net effect certainly didn't increase local coverage. CHUM's addition of a morning program was nice, though poorly executed; breaking news was paned for vendor plugs, and advertising; it less about news and events and more about product placement and or ad revenue. Their selection of hosts also added to the 'circus like' QVC atmosphere. CKCO has lost some if its shine certainly, however when compared to CFLP, CKCO is a beacon of light, CFLP's looks like a turd. The consolidation of local TV stations by networks as killed off local programming, not the consumer; I agree that the lack of competition is the cause, not the cure. -- Life - A bitter little ray of sunshine.
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