Re: [Swprograms] More on Sirius in Canada

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for this, Danel.

It seems to me that perhaps one of the biggest differences between  
the US and Canada in this telecomms regulatory regard is that Canada  
regulates to ensure content, believing that the marketplace will  
almost surely fall short of providing all that is needed.  Therefore,  
standards are set to which all candidates must adhere in order to be  
permitted to enter the marketplace.

In the U.S., OTOH, there is an almost mystical belief that the the  
marketplace *will* provide *all* that is needed, so long as barriers  
to entry into that marketplace are reduced to a bare minimum or  
removed entirely.  Therefore, regulation in the US is applied almost  
exclusively to ensure that any minimally (and I mean minimally)  
qualified candidate is granted the right or opportunity to compete in  
that marketplace.

Of course, these are generalizations and should carry all the  
disclaimers and qualifiers such statements require.  But I do think  
this is the gist of it.

John Figliozzi

On Aug 31, 2005, at 3:54 AM, Daniel Say wrote:

>> Agreed!
>> OTOH, 39% do feel "inconvenience".  That's at least a significant
>> minority.  CNN or Fox News should be so lucky!  :-))
>> jaf
>>
>> On Aug 31, 2005, at 12:07 AM, Richard Cuff wrote:
>>
>>> I also hesitated posting an article in the Globe & Mail that says
>>> that 61% of Canadians have not been inconvenienced by the CBC
>>> lockout.  The union harrumped about the study, but the findings
>>> make me somewhat nervous.  At first glance, the fact that a
>>> majority of Canadians are indifferent about the CBC's situation
>>> suggests that the CBC isn't relevant to most Canadians.  However an
>>> alternative perspective is that the CBC shouldn't be trying to
>>> serve the majority.  They have commerical radio.  It is this issue
>>> of what constituency public broadcasters should serve that has me
>>> scratching my head.
>>>
>
>     But that is the general, fractured market and
>     mainly the loss of CBC TV.
>     People feel and are loud about the loss of
>     CBC Radio.
>     You could see the discussions of radio ratings
>     and formats at news:alt.radio.networks.cbc
>
>     Or digest the numbers in the tables below
>     (I appended a bit of the radio-mit-pictures)
>     so that you can see the differences and
>     sameness of English-language radio formats and
>     what Sirius/XM would bring to Canada.
> See
> Tables  Percentage share of radio listening by format by
> audience category- Fall 2004. Formats, demographics,
> http://www.statcan.ca:80/english/freepub/87F0007XIE/2004001/data.htm
>
> Much the same at
>    Linkname: The CRTC releases its annual Broadcasting Policy  
> Monitoring
>           Report
>         URL: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/NEWS/RELEASES/2005/r050629.htm
> Radio
>      * Canadians have access to 1,158 radio services, of which 867  
> are in
>        English, 253 are in French, and 38 are in third languages.
>      * In 2004, Canadians listened to radio an average of 19.5  
> hours per
>        week, which represents the same number of hours as in 2003.
>      * Revenues for Canadian private radio stations exceeded $1.2  
> billion
>        in 2004, and profits before interest and tax came in at $224
>        million.
>      * Since the adoption of the CRTC's commercial radio policy in  
> 1998,
>        Canadian radio stations have spent more than $156 million on
>        Canadian talent development.
>
>    Linkname: The Daily, Friday, July 8, 2005. Radio listening
>         URL: http://WWW.StatCan.CA/Daily/English/050708/d050708b.htm
>   [20]Friday, July 8, 2005
>       U.S. border radio has very low ratings.
> ========
>   A sample set of ratings numbers for radio stations at the
>   pre-eminent city of Toronto at
>   Linkname: broadcastermagazine.com - Daily News - 8/14/2005
>         URL:
> http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/article.asp?id=46341&story_i
>           d=&issue=08112005
>
>   ============================-for Television
> Go to www.statcan.ca  > English > Search
>         Type in
>             Television
>                        and find
>         ratings or the financial considerations of
>         Canadian stations (Why would they care
>         or collected data from U.S. stations?)
> such as
>   http://www.statcan.ca:80/english/freepub/87F0006XIE/2005001/data.htm
> 2003 - Television viewing: data tables
> These tables provide information on the television viewing habits of
> Canadians by demographic characteristics of survey respondents, by
> province, by origin and type of program, and origin of station.
>
> --------------- a recent TV ratings at
> http://www.popjournalism.com/pop/features/2005/00176ratings.shtml
>
>   Note that Canadian private stations will have U.S. programmes at the
>   same time as U.S. stations, and the CRTC rules that the U.S. feed of
>   that program must be substituted by the Canadian feed (with the  
> Canadian
>   advertizements), in the Canadian cable feed to homes.
>
>   While there are several border stations who can be received by
>   terrestrial antennas, most of Canada (85 percent) has cable feeds
>   with a basic 20 channels, some of them moved from UHF down to VHF to
>   make the basic cable more Canadian, and dozens more on the UHF cable
>   bands
>
>   A good explanation and survey at the Wiki
>          Linkname: Television in Canada - Wikipedia,
>         URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_Canada
>        Last Mod: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 04:22:40 GMT
>        size: 589 lines,
>   if you don't go to the general historical overviews at
>     www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com
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