Canoe has a nominaly interesting piece on the recent deliberations of the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) regarding satellite radio. For the Americans following along at home, the CRTC is our equivilent of your FCC - just much more anal retentive.
There are days when I’m happy I don’t live in the US, and there are days I wish you guys would just send the Marines into Ottawa and plant the stars and stripes on Parliament Hill. After reading the Canoe article, it’s leaning more towards the latter.
I am so sick of hearing about Canadian content requirements in broadcast media that I could just about puke. You know, it’s great to have Canadian pride and everything, but forcing us to listen to inferior crap just because it’s Canadian is another matter entirely.
The only Toronto radio station I can handle for any extended period of time is CHFI, and I think it’s because they are the most “American” of the bunch in their style. You could take CHUM, the CBC, MIX 99.9, and all the other little anklebiters, and just revoke their licenses for all I care. You’d be doing the public a service. I followed Humble & Fred to MIX 99.9 when Mojo crumbled, and it’s really depressing. I hear them talking about these groups I’ve never heard of before. And after hearing their “music” I can’t say I want to hear more. The happiest moment of my life this week was waking up to the one identifiable American not-Canadian song they’ve played all week the morning the clock radio popped on to Annie Lennox singing Walking On Broken Glass. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a huge Lennox fan, but at least I recognized the song.
And now I hear them talking about content regulations in satellite radio. I hear CHUM crying crocodile tears that their “Canadian content” proposal got scuttled. BIG FLIPPING DEAL. THE ONLY CANADIAN CONTENT ANYBODY GIVES A RAT’S CRAP-FLAPPER ABOUT IS RON McLEAN AND DON CHERRY TALKING ABOUT HOCKEY! Anything else can and should be flushed back down the sewer that it emanated from.
We’ve been giving Canadian broadcasters hope and a chance for way to long. Canadian broadcasting has passed it’s expiration date. The political apathy problem in Canada has put diehard patriots who can’t see their nose despite their face at the helm of the Canadian broadcasting regulatory body. Democracy may as well be dead in this country. Because the only ones who care are the ones with these skewed ideas that we can possibly compete with the American entertainment industry. GUESS AGAIN!
Yeah… this is one of my pet issues, and I’ve ranted on it before. I think it’s time to go to bed before I have an aneurysm. Good night.
Re: “The happiest moment of my life this week was waking up to the one identifiable American song they’ve played all week the morning the clock radio popped on to Annie Lennox singing Walking On Broken Glass.”
Annie Lennox is from the UK, and is most definitely not American.
Rebecca
August 30th, 2005