Re: [Swprograms] CBC on XM Satellite Radio

["Richard Cuff" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gang:

Here's what the CBC itself says about Sirius and XM.  It is apparent that
the XM proposal doesn't include the CBC.

Source:  http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/satelliteradio/

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA

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 What are the satellite radio proposals currently before the CRTC?

There are three of them. Two are partnerships with American satellite radio
providers and the third is an all-Canadian proposal.

Sirius Radio Canada, a partnership involving the CBC, Standard Radio Inc.
and the U.S. firm Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. The proposal is for 78
channels at first. Four of the channels would be produced in Canada by the
CBC (Radio One, La Premiere Chaine, Radio Three and Bande a Bande). Standard
would produce two other Canadian channels (one English and one French music
channel). The proposed monthly cost would be $12.95.


Canadian Satellite Radio Inc., headed by Toronto businessman John Bitove, in
partnership with XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. CSR is planning to offer
101 channels, four of which will be produced in Canada. The Canadian
channels will include an English music channel, a French music channel, a
comedy channel and a talk/information channel. The cost will be $12.99 per
month.


CHUM Subscription Radio Canada is proposing 50 channels, all of which would
be produced in Canada. They include 40 channels of English music and
spoken-word material, five of French music and spoken-word material, and
five diversity channels. The proposed cost is $9.95 a month. The other
difference between the CHUM proposal and the other two is that CHUM plans to
send its signal from the satellite through land-based transmitters that
would only cover big cities at first.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Say" <say@xxxxxx>
To: "Shortwave programming discussion" <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] CBC on XM Satellite Radio


> Joe Buch writes
> > At 02:41 PM 12/9/04 -0500, John Figliozzi wrote:
> >
> > >There'll be Canadian content on XM; but no CBC Radio.  The CBC is
partnered with Sirius and Standard Radio in the Sirius Canada venture.  I
doubt they would make their product available to a direct competitor.  But,
today?  Who knows for sure?  :-))
> > >
> > >But there has been NO announcement from XM or CBC regarding CBC Radio
carriage on XM.  And I don't expect to see one.
> > >
>
> There are several satellite only channels from CBC radio
> now.  I would imagine that the feed would go there to XM.
> As it is they feed the WRN shortwave from Galaxy satellite
> through the one TPI in Toronto and then have Minnesota
> PRI buy it for their Frozen-Overnigts segment.
>
> ---------
> " Galaxie is CBC/Radio-Canadas 24-hour-a-day
> digital pay audio service, available through satellite, cable
> and microwave digital distribution systems. With nearly
> four million paid subscriptions, Galaxie increased its
> contribution to the Corporations net income in 2003-2004.
> Galaxie also helped to fulfil CBC/Radio-Canadas cultural
> mandate by promoting Canadian artists and, as required
> by the CRTC, contributed money to indigenous musical
> talent development.
> For more information please see:
> cbc.radio-canada.ca/htmen/highlights/arts.pdf"
>         ---------
> >
> > Here are two paragraphs from the NYT article that caused me to believe
that CBC would be carried by XM:
> >
> > " 'This is the first time we will be exporting channels into the U.S.,'
said Kevin Shea, the president of Sirius Canada, a consortium made up of
Sirius Radio, Standard Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,
Canada's national public broadcaster. The company has promised to offer four
CBC stations and one station produced by Standard Radio, a large privately
owned Canadian broadcast company."
> >
> > "Canadian Satellite Radio, in partnership with XM Satellite Radio, plans
to offer a similar mix of news and music stations, as well as a Canadian
comedy channel."
> >
> > John, I do not know where XM would get a "similar mix of news and
music." from Canadian sources unless they also relayed the English and
French 1st and 2nd networks. For XM to develop their own programming with
equivalent quality would be prohibitively expensive.  The crappy look angles
to the XM satellites will be enough of a handicap for XM without introducing
significant "similar" programming costs.  I have seen nothing in the press
releases to indicate that the Sirius/CBC deal is exclusive.
> > ~*-.,_,.-*~'^'~*-.,_,.-*~'^'~*-.,
> > Joe Buch
> > -*~'^'~*-.,_,.-*~'^'~*-.,_,.-*~'^
>
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