Its tough for people to break the bond of "this show plays at this time on this channel on this day and I have to watch it or my friends will blabber a bunch of spoilers tomorrow and I will be so sad and then eat until I look like honey booboo's parent who will drop dead one day in the imitation butter isle of the local food collection center".
The biggest problem with all these ugggly canadian channels is the Canadian content laws. With teletoon retro, you have a bunch of lame ass cartoons(except when they play live action of a non-cartoon nature. WTF?) that are more filler due to being produced or created in Canada at some point in history(spiderman, hercules). Of course there is also the issue of being hated for the criminal action(Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Freedom of communication) of censoring the U.S. networks with the Canadian channels feed.
Why do we need 20 channels that air the same shows in rotation? Why competition obviously. Shut them down. And the shows workers will go to the U.S. for higher paid work, while being able to travel back to Canada for the tax breaks that productions get in Canada.
The Canadian stations do have the shows online after a 24 hours delay. Most of them that is. Some are just to damn special to give out for free. And it will disappear after about 10 days of being online.
Netflix U.S. has triple the content that Canada has. So send hate mail to Shaw and Bell for their refusal to share and air what they bought the copyright for airing on television in Canada.
A true Patriot in Canadian History once said: 'If it wasn't for Canadian content laws, My show would of been canceled after the first season'. That Patriot? He is and will always be Red Green.(aka Steve Smith).
I went back to peasant vision. I too got sick of the monthly TV bill after I realized I hardly watched anything, got most of my news and entertainment over the net. The only thing I found TV really good for was sports and the Olympics, but I was able to get fantastic HD over the air which made it not missed.
Probably saved over $3000 in TV over the past 3 years that I haven't had it and genuinely don't miss it.
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