adma
Superstar
Funny. When it comes to CBC Radio, at least, it seems to be garnering an *increasing* share of the listening audience--mostly because the commercial alternatives have become so crassly degraded...
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Funny. When it comes to CBC Radio, at least, it seems to be garnering an *increasing* share of the listening audience--mostly because the commercial alternatives have become so crassly degraded...
lordmandeep
Banned
If the CBC is gone, your going to have another station playing friends and Sienfield.
Northern Light
Superstar
Cbc
I think there's some confusion about what subsidy CBC TV actually gets.
Its true the CBC's 'appropriation' is just over $1,000,000,000. (though its budget is closer to 1.7 B)
CBC Radio, French and English get just over $300,000,000
Radio-Canada, CBC's French TV Arm gets $450,000,000 (includings its ad revenue)
CBC-TV english (main network) gets about $650,000,000 (includes ad revenue)
So if we are talking subsidy of English CBC-TV then we are really discussing about $300,000,000.
Its important to make those distinctions.
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Its also important to discuss context.
CBC gets a subsidy (per capita) well below that of the BBC in Britain or state TV in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, or Japan.
BBC gets by an annual subsidy of well over 6 billion dollars.
We're that adjusted to the population size of Canada, you would get about 3 Billion for the CBC.
So yes, there are too many commercials, and none would be better. Yes, there should be more original programs, and some more high-end product.
But none of that comes free.
As to editorial bias, the CBC could take lessons from Canada's big private networks could had hardly be accused of being impartial!
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My 2 cents, don't increase government spending on Canadian TV.
But instead, cancel all subsides for private sector Canadian shows.
Redirect that money to the CBC, (that would provide about a 400M budget boost for the Ceeb) and that is enough money to get rid of commericals during all News programs, and most of the prime time line-up.
Leave commercials in sports and weekday afternoons.
And you have enough money for more original programs on a mostly commercial-free CBC.
The private networks are now licensing almost every Major show (dramas) into the U.S. Network market.
CTV had sold every Canadian drama is is making or will make in the next year to a U.S. major. (Flashpoint, Bridge (CBS), The Listener (NBC)).
As a result they should be making healthy profits on that type of product.
The only reason CTV and Global are losing money is that they have lots of debt to service because of their absurd buying sprees of channels.
The gov't shouldn't bail that out, the broadcasters can just sell what they can't afford.
I think there's some confusion about what subsidy CBC TV actually gets.
Its true the CBC's 'appropriation' is just over $1,000,000,000. (though its budget is closer to 1.7 B)
CBC Radio, French and English get just over $300,000,000
Radio-Canada, CBC's French TV Arm gets $450,000,000 (includings its ad revenue)
CBC-TV english (main network) gets about $650,000,000 (includes ad revenue)
So if we are talking subsidy of English CBC-TV then we are really discussing about $300,000,000.
Its important to make those distinctions.
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Its also important to discuss context.
CBC gets a subsidy (per capita) well below that of the BBC in Britain or state TV in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, or Japan.
BBC gets by an annual subsidy of well over 6 billion dollars.
We're that adjusted to the population size of Canada, you would get about 3 Billion for the CBC.
So yes, there are too many commercials, and none would be better. Yes, there should be more original programs, and some more high-end product.
But none of that comes free.
As to editorial bias, the CBC could take lessons from Canada's big private networks could had hardly be accused of being impartial!
****
My 2 cents, don't increase government spending on Canadian TV.
But instead, cancel all subsides for private sector Canadian shows.
Redirect that money to the CBC, (that would provide about a 400M budget boost for the Ceeb) and that is enough money to get rid of commericals during all News programs, and most of the prime time line-up.
Leave commercials in sports and weekday afternoons.
And you have enough money for more original programs on a mostly commercial-free CBC.
The private networks are now licensing almost every Major show (dramas) into the U.S. Network market.
CTV had sold every Canadian drama is is making or will make in the next year to a U.S. major. (Flashpoint, Bridge (CBS), The Listener (NBC)).
As a result they should be making healthy profits on that type of product.
The only reason CTV and Global are losing money is that they have lots of debt to service because of their absurd buying sprees of channels.
The gov't shouldn't bail that out, the broadcasters can just sell what they can't afford.
L
LisainToronto
Guest
Harper wants to Save CanWest and Destroy the CBC ...
I hate hypocracy ... esp. Conservative hypocracy ...
"The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. plans to cut up to 800 jobs to make up for a $171 million shortfall in 2009-10.
CBC president and chief executive Hubert Lacroix announced the layoffs Wednesday in a broadcast to employees.
He said the public broadcaster also needs to sell $125 million worth of assets to make up the shortfall in operating costs."
vs.
Broadcaster bailouts mulled
OTTAWA -- The Harper government is considering help for Canada's troubled private TV broadcasters, including the possibility of looser regulations and tax changes.
Heritage Minister James Moore said yesterday that the federal cabinet is aware of the threat to local news content should more local stations close.
And he confirmed that the government is looking specifically at how to assist CanWest Global Communications, which is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
"We're mindful of that and we're thinking about whether or not there's anything the government can do, but I can't be any more specific than that right now," Moore said.
He hinted the help could come in the form of looser regulations and changes to the tax system, which would also help other private networks."
I hate hypocracy ... esp. Conservative hypocracy ...
"The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. plans to cut up to 800 jobs to make up for a $171 million shortfall in 2009-10.
CBC president and chief executive Hubert Lacroix announced the layoffs Wednesday in a broadcast to employees.
He said the public broadcaster also needs to sell $125 million worth of assets to make up the shortfall in operating costs."
vs.
Broadcaster bailouts mulled
OTTAWA -- The Harper government is considering help for Canada's troubled private TV broadcasters, including the possibility of looser regulations and tax changes.
Heritage Minister James Moore said yesterday that the federal cabinet is aware of the threat to local news content should more local stations close.
And he confirmed that the government is looking specifically at how to assist CanWest Global Communications, which is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
"We're mindful of that and we're thinking about whether or not there's anything the government can do, but I can't be any more specific than that right now," Moore said.
He hinted the help could come in the form of looser regulations and changes to the tax system, which would also help other private networks."
Conrad Black
Senior Member
That's crazy. At least I got my money from Canwest 
H
Hydrogen
Guest
Kiwi
Active Member
Prospective buyers eyeing CHCH
March 27, 2009
Daniel Nolan
The Hamilton Spectator
http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/538449
Potential buyers have expressed interest in acquiring CHCH News from Canwest Global.
As a result, the Winnipeg-based company is extending its decision on what to do with the beleaguered station until the end of the summer to give the queries time to play out.
A decision was expected on the station’s future any day now, after Canwest announced a strategic review Feb. 5 for CHCH – plus four other stations under the E! network in Montreal, Red Deer, Kelowna and Victoria.
“The sale process has generated some interest in the stations, although it is still too early to say whether any of these will result in a sale,†interim president Peter Viner said in an e-mail to broadcasting staff.
“Over the coming weeks we expect potential buyers will complete the due diligence required in a purchase, which may include meetings with management and site visits at some locations.â€
Canwest spokesman John Douglas said the queries have ranged from buying the small entertainment network collectively, to buying individual stations like CHCH News.
He could not name any of the parties nor say how many there have been.
CHCH talk show host Donna Skelly is also leading a plan to have the station converted to community ownership.
Canwest is seeking to divest itself of CHCH because the media giant has $3.9 billion in debt and argues the conventional TV models for the five stations can’t be financially sustained. Canwest estimates it will lose $29 million running the station over the next year.
CHCH union president Nick Garbutt called Viner’s letter “positive†in that it eases employees’ worries until the end of summer.
Apart from Skelly’s group, he said he’s heard two other groups are interested in buying the station. He said staff have seen business-type people touring the station, but “there’ve been no introductions.â€
CHCH’s licence expires Aug. 31. The CRTC has a hearing on a one-year renewal application April 27.
March 27, 2009
Daniel Nolan
The Hamilton Spectator
http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/538449
Potential buyers have expressed interest in acquiring CHCH News from Canwest Global.
As a result, the Winnipeg-based company is extending its decision on what to do with the beleaguered station until the end of the summer to give the queries time to play out.
A decision was expected on the station’s future any day now, after Canwest announced a strategic review Feb. 5 for CHCH – plus four other stations under the E! network in Montreal, Red Deer, Kelowna and Victoria.
“The sale process has generated some interest in the stations, although it is still too early to say whether any of these will result in a sale,†interim president Peter Viner said in an e-mail to broadcasting staff.
“Over the coming weeks we expect potential buyers will complete the due diligence required in a purchase, which may include meetings with management and site visits at some locations.â€
Canwest spokesman John Douglas said the queries have ranged from buying the small entertainment network collectively, to buying individual stations like CHCH News.
He could not name any of the parties nor say how many there have been.
CHCH talk show host Donna Skelly is also leading a plan to have the station converted to community ownership.
Canwest is seeking to divest itself of CHCH because the media giant has $3.9 billion in debt and argues the conventional TV models for the five stations can’t be financially sustained. Canwest estimates it will lose $29 million running the station over the next year.
CHCH union president Nick Garbutt called Viner’s letter “positive†in that it eases employees’ worries until the end of summer.
Apart from Skelly’s group, he said he’s heard two other groups are interested in buying the station. He said staff have seen business-type people touring the station, but “there’ve been no introductions.â€
CHCH’s licence expires Aug. 31. The CRTC has a hearing on a one-year renewal application April 27.
JasonParis
Moderator
Very true. CBC Radio has never been more popular. Also, CBC-TV is North America's only terrestrial broadcaster to have its share of viewers rise since 2003. In fact, it often beats CanWest Global in the ratings.
A few things to add...
- The only countries who support their public broadcaster worse is the U.S. and New Zealand. It is the western norm to have a well-funded public broadcaster.
- $1B can certainly sound like a lot of money, but as stated above, it covers a wide variety of mandated services in two official languages. Moreover, the infrastructure of maintaining over-the-air transmitters to every far-flung community in Canada is what truly eats up much of the CBC's parliamentary allocation.
- I too could live with loosening restrictions on private broadcasters so long as a portion of their increased profits went to our pubcaster. I wouldn't remove all restrictions though (i.e., terrestrial channels would have to have local news, etc.) in order to keep a variety of voices on the dial.
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Kiwi
Active Member
It isn't much of a secret with Moses Znaimer's bid to takeover CHCH. He even had a luncheon last week in Hamilton.
Kiwi
Active Member
Channel Zero buying Hamilton's CHCH
Canadian Press
http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/592121
Canwest Global Communications Corp. says Hamilton television station CHCH-TV and Montreal station CJNT-TV will be sold to an affiliate of Channel Zero Inc., subject to approval by the federal regulator and other conditions.
Channel Zero has agreed to offer employment to all current employees of the two stations, subject to the negotiation of a one-year collective agreement with unionized employees at CHCH.
Canadian Press
http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/592121
Canwest Global Communications Corp. says Hamilton television station CHCH-TV and Montreal station CJNT-TV will be sold to an affiliate of Channel Zero Inc., subject to approval by the federal regulator and other conditions.
Channel Zero has agreed to offer employment to all current employees of the two stations, subject to the negotiation of a one-year collective agreement with unionized employees at CHCH.
Kiwi
Active Member
CHCH is going all news plus movies at night format..........
Channel Zero buys two E! stations from Canwest; plans major programming upgrades
June 30, 2009
By Greg O’Brien
http://www.cartt.ca/news/FullStory.cfm?NewsNo=8231
TORONTO, HAMILTON and MONTREAL – We’re about to find out if a specialty service model (all-news plus movies) will work on an over-the-air station.
As first reported by Cartt.ca, independent specialty service operator Channel Zero is about to get a whole lot bigger. The company which owns short film specialty Movieola, classic movie channel Silver Screen Classics, film distributor Ouat Media (plus a majority stake in the AOV adult channel brands) announced this afternoon they have signed an agreement to purchase E!-branded CHCH TV Hamilton and CJNT TV Montreal from Canwest Global.
Terms of the deal were not publicly disclosed but the official press release says all employees will be keeping their jobs. The news comes after months of negotiations since Canwest originally indicated back in January that the five-station group is on the block. The stations in the two largest markets drew the most attention and the sale is pending CRTC and union approvals.
The fate of Canwest’s E!-branded stations in Red Deer, Alta. (CHCA) and Kelowna (CHBC) and Victoria, B.C. (CHEK) are not known at this time. While Canwest is thought to be seeking buyers for those, company executives have gone on record saying Canwest will not be operating the E! stations as of September 1, 2009 and the company is running out of time.
The sale of the stations is part of the troubled Canwest’s attempt at righting its debt-laden ship and divesting of assets it no longer considers to be core to its operations (like E!, and Network Ten Australia. The company has already sold radio groups in the U.K. And Turkey). Today is also another deadline day for the big media (Global TV, newspapers, specialties) company where it was to finish an agreement in principle with its new lenders and existing bondholders to recapitalize the entire operation.
(Ed note: Because we have followed this story so closely over the past many months, any more links would be simply too many. Please search “Canwest†or “Asper†on Cartt.ca for additional background on this ongoing story.)
“We’re really excited,†Channel Zero’s vice-president and general manager Cal Millar told Cartt.ca in an interview prior to the official announcement to employees which Cartt.ca agreed to embargo until E! network staff were officially informed at 12:35 today.
“Without question the value in CHCH Hamilton is it is a very valuable local station with a very effective newsgathering organization.â€
“It’s important to viewers,†he added, noting that almost 15,000 supporters had signed a Facebook petition to save the station. “And that’s just the people who are on Facebook and cared enough. It has huge community support and that says – as we position it as an ‘all-news-all-day’ station – it’s going to have really strong local support.â€
The privately financed deal to purchase the stations in Hamilton and Montreal will see Channel Zero’s size jump from about 40 employees to over 180, but that doesn’t mean the company is going to hold back on anything. The E! branding – which was a failure from a “man on the street†viewpoint in Hamilton, will soon be gone. CZ also plans to push full speed ahead on high definition and launch a new over-the-air TV model, repositioning and reprogramming CHCH Hamilton as an all-local-news station during daylight hours with movies at night. Think newscasts plus CP24, from dawn until 8 p.m. and known titles such as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Sting and The Blues Brothers in prime time and overnight.
The new owners plan keep the successful morning show, supper newscast and late evening newscast but when it comes to movies, something Channel Zero knows well, “they’re not going to be first run conventional window movies. These are going to be ‘comfort food’ movies – not old movies necessarily, but movies that are familiar, have a high degree of title recognition with them,†said Millar.
Cable nets have had success adding these types of titles to their prime time line-ups (Spike showed The Phantom Menace last night and A&E ran The Godfather trilogy earlier this year, for examples) and Millar is convinced the prime time movie programming will work. “That’s one of the key consumer insights we came to with this,†he said.
“While we were in this process I was sitting watching TV at night flipping around and I came across The Blues Brothers. The DVD is in the drawer but it was on TV, I felt like watching it, it hit me the right way and I watched it right to the end.â€
In Montreal, where CJNT is a multicultural station (and the station where the E! branding made the absolute least sense) it will also be significantly changed and broadcast both original foreign movies and multicultural music videos, with vibrant, fresh multicultural hosts. Millar says film distribution arm Ouat had often turned down foreign language flicks, “but now we have an outlet for them,†he said.
Millar says Channel Zero has been negotiating with Canwest since the winter and he’s pleased to finally have signed on the dotted line because both he and his financial backers (who he declined to name, but added they are not venture capitalists. “We all saw Drew Craig lose his company because of that,†added Millar) are excited about the programming format for CHCH and CJNT.
“We are buying stations we think are just absolute gems that are a little bit rusty in spots, a little rough in spots, but really truly gems and our job is to take them and polish them,†he said.
When it comes to CHCH Hamilton (and it looks as though the branding will revert back to its historical call letters) Channel Zero will keep what works (news) and jettison everything else (American prime time programming and even the simultaneous substitution that the large broadcasters say they can’t live without).
“This will be an over-the-air station but not a conventional station,†said Millar. “The idea that you program to dayparts and people buy ads on that... the advertising community still believes in that but we don’t.
“We think it’s far more exciting to take the learnings and the growth that have come from specialty – where viewers know what they’re going to get when they tune in – and apply it to a distribution technology that’s available to everybody.â€
Multi-platform news will also be a major thrust, added Millar. He wants to see CHCH as the “news station for everything west of the Humber River†where the station is providing video traffic updates to their commuting viewers’ smart phones, for example, or making the newscasts available on demand, on cable and on line.
The news won’t be a full on 24/7 news wheel, however. There will be newscasts. “I doubt very much we’re going to muck with the success of the morning show, for example,†he said. Millar is also a fan of Live at Five, the supper hour news and the 11 o’clock news.
And, Millar also added Channel Zero’s business plan works with or without the Local Programming Improvement Fund, the rules for which the industry is waiting for are coming out Monday.
In the end, though, “the tactical execution of it will come from people in Hamilton who know what they’re doing... we’re rank amateurs at news.â€
When it comes to conventional TV though, their regulations bind them to showing “priority programming†which isn’t just local content. It’s about Canadian made drama and comedy too. Millar is hopeful that because these are single stations, CHCH and CJNT won’t be bound to air that sort of Canadian content.
“Priority programming is really a ‘station group’ requirement and since we are not a station group, it’s our understanding we won’t be held to that,†he said.
Millar is also hopeful that the CRTC will see things Channel Zero’s way and speed approvals through the Commission, because August 31st is fast approaching. “We’re prepared to live with the current conditions of license on both of those stations,†adds Millar
There are also pension issues to sort out between the union and Canwest prior to the deal being officially consummated. “Conditions of the sale include Canwest securing an extension of CHCH’s collective agreement with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP),†reads the press release.
More to come...
Channel Zero buys two E! stations from Canwest; plans major programming upgrades
June 30, 2009
By Greg O’Brien
http://www.cartt.ca/news/FullStory.cfm?NewsNo=8231
TORONTO, HAMILTON and MONTREAL – We’re about to find out if a specialty service model (all-news plus movies) will work on an over-the-air station.
As first reported by Cartt.ca, independent specialty service operator Channel Zero is about to get a whole lot bigger. The company which owns short film specialty Movieola, classic movie channel Silver Screen Classics, film distributor Ouat Media (plus a majority stake in the AOV adult channel brands) announced this afternoon they have signed an agreement to purchase E!-branded CHCH TV Hamilton and CJNT TV Montreal from Canwest Global.
Terms of the deal were not publicly disclosed but the official press release says all employees will be keeping their jobs. The news comes after months of negotiations since Canwest originally indicated back in January that the five-station group is on the block. The stations in the two largest markets drew the most attention and the sale is pending CRTC and union approvals.
The fate of Canwest’s E!-branded stations in Red Deer, Alta. (CHCA) and Kelowna (CHBC) and Victoria, B.C. (CHEK) are not known at this time. While Canwest is thought to be seeking buyers for those, company executives have gone on record saying Canwest will not be operating the E! stations as of September 1, 2009 and the company is running out of time.
The sale of the stations is part of the troubled Canwest’s attempt at righting its debt-laden ship and divesting of assets it no longer considers to be core to its operations (like E!, and Network Ten Australia. The company has already sold radio groups in the U.K. And Turkey). Today is also another deadline day for the big media (Global TV, newspapers, specialties) company where it was to finish an agreement in principle with its new lenders and existing bondholders to recapitalize the entire operation.
(Ed note: Because we have followed this story so closely over the past many months, any more links would be simply too many. Please search “Canwest†or “Asper†on Cartt.ca for additional background on this ongoing story.)
“We’re really excited,†Channel Zero’s vice-president and general manager Cal Millar told Cartt.ca in an interview prior to the official announcement to employees which Cartt.ca agreed to embargo until E! network staff were officially informed at 12:35 today.
“Without question the value in CHCH Hamilton is it is a very valuable local station with a very effective newsgathering organization.â€
“It’s important to viewers,†he added, noting that almost 15,000 supporters had signed a Facebook petition to save the station. “And that’s just the people who are on Facebook and cared enough. It has huge community support and that says – as we position it as an ‘all-news-all-day’ station – it’s going to have really strong local support.â€
The privately financed deal to purchase the stations in Hamilton and Montreal will see Channel Zero’s size jump from about 40 employees to over 180, but that doesn’t mean the company is going to hold back on anything. The E! branding – which was a failure from a “man on the street†viewpoint in Hamilton, will soon be gone. CZ also plans to push full speed ahead on high definition and launch a new over-the-air TV model, repositioning and reprogramming CHCH Hamilton as an all-local-news station during daylight hours with movies at night. Think newscasts plus CP24, from dawn until 8 p.m. and known titles such as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Sting and The Blues Brothers in prime time and overnight.
The new owners plan keep the successful morning show, supper newscast and late evening newscast but when it comes to movies, something Channel Zero knows well, “they’re not going to be first run conventional window movies. These are going to be ‘comfort food’ movies – not old movies necessarily, but movies that are familiar, have a high degree of title recognition with them,†said Millar.
Cable nets have had success adding these types of titles to their prime time line-ups (Spike showed The Phantom Menace last night and A&E ran The Godfather trilogy earlier this year, for examples) and Millar is convinced the prime time movie programming will work. “That’s one of the key consumer insights we came to with this,†he said.
“While we were in this process I was sitting watching TV at night flipping around and I came across The Blues Brothers. The DVD is in the drawer but it was on TV, I felt like watching it, it hit me the right way and I watched it right to the end.â€
In Montreal, where CJNT is a multicultural station (and the station where the E! branding made the absolute least sense) it will also be significantly changed and broadcast both original foreign movies and multicultural music videos, with vibrant, fresh multicultural hosts. Millar says film distribution arm Ouat had often turned down foreign language flicks, “but now we have an outlet for them,†he said.
Millar says Channel Zero has been negotiating with Canwest since the winter and he’s pleased to finally have signed on the dotted line because both he and his financial backers (who he declined to name, but added they are not venture capitalists. “We all saw Drew Craig lose his company because of that,†added Millar) are excited about the programming format for CHCH and CJNT.
“We are buying stations we think are just absolute gems that are a little bit rusty in spots, a little rough in spots, but really truly gems and our job is to take them and polish them,†he said.
When it comes to CHCH Hamilton (and it looks as though the branding will revert back to its historical call letters) Channel Zero will keep what works (news) and jettison everything else (American prime time programming and even the simultaneous substitution that the large broadcasters say they can’t live without).
“This will be an over-the-air station but not a conventional station,†said Millar. “The idea that you program to dayparts and people buy ads on that... the advertising community still believes in that but we don’t.
“We think it’s far more exciting to take the learnings and the growth that have come from specialty – where viewers know what they’re going to get when they tune in – and apply it to a distribution technology that’s available to everybody.â€
Multi-platform news will also be a major thrust, added Millar. He wants to see CHCH as the “news station for everything west of the Humber River†where the station is providing video traffic updates to their commuting viewers’ smart phones, for example, or making the newscasts available on demand, on cable and on line.
The news won’t be a full on 24/7 news wheel, however. There will be newscasts. “I doubt very much we’re going to muck with the success of the morning show, for example,†he said. Millar is also a fan of Live at Five, the supper hour news and the 11 o’clock news.
And, Millar also added Channel Zero’s business plan works with or without the Local Programming Improvement Fund, the rules for which the industry is waiting for are coming out Monday.
In the end, though, “the tactical execution of it will come from people in Hamilton who know what they’re doing... we’re rank amateurs at news.â€
When it comes to conventional TV though, their regulations bind them to showing “priority programming†which isn’t just local content. It’s about Canadian made drama and comedy too. Millar is hopeful that because these are single stations, CHCH and CJNT won’t be bound to air that sort of Canadian content.
“Priority programming is really a ‘station group’ requirement and since we are not a station group, it’s our understanding we won’t be held to that,†he said.
Millar is also hopeful that the CRTC will see things Channel Zero’s way and speed approvals through the Commission, because August 31st is fast approaching. “We’re prepared to live with the current conditions of license on both of those stations,†adds Millar
There are also pension issues to sort out between the union and Canwest prior to the deal being officially consummated. “Conditions of the sale include Canwest securing an extension of CHCH’s collective agreement with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP),†reads the press release.
More to come...
JasonParis
Moderator
It's a rare day when I'm happy about a Canadian media acquisition, but this is flipping fantastic for the western GTA, Hamilton and terrestrial television itself.
An oddity about all this...Channel Zero is based in Toronto's Junction so this is a small good news story for our local economy as well.
An oddity about all this...Channel Zero is based in Toronto's Junction so this is a small good news story for our local economy as well.
299 bloor call control.
Senior Member
The only thing I fear is the oversaturation of the 'all-news' format, with CP24, the as-yet-launched CityTV News Channel, and now CHCH? I guess the only plus with this is that CHCH will be available OTA.
I only wish CBC would overlay their NW signal on their OTA.
I only wish CBC would overlay their NW signal on their OTA.
JasonParis
Moderator
GenerationW
Senior Member
Can't see that station ever making any money.