Prescient? Maybe. But I find it ironic that the state-run CBC.ca people’s web site is reporting this story. Quick! Catch it while you can is now the official motto of the CBC.
What with their ratings in the toilet and the toilet having been flushed, no basis in reality nor a rational reason for being at all whatsoever, a Conservative government in power and its popularity growing, and now this, we may hopefully soon look back at the state-run CBC in the same way we look back at Pravda or disco or liberal-left governments.
And no, this isn’t the death knell. It’s just another nail, and a sign of things to come. (Don’t forget to flush when it’s all done!)
CRTC won’t touch TV on cellphones
Last Updated Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:35:04 EDT
CBC NewsCanada’s broadcast regulator has decided to exempt wireless TV from its jurisdiction, meaning it won’t set rules for television services received over devices like cellphones.
In a notice released Wednesday, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission reasoned that the services are internet-based, placing them under its 1999 New Media Exemption Order.
The decision represents a victory for cellphone providers such as Bell, Rogers and Telus, but a defeat for conventional broadcasters, groups representing Canadian artists and producers, and the Commissioner of Official Languages.
Those groups “generally saw no difference between the activities of the wireless carriers providing mobile broadcasting and those of a licensed broadcaster,” the CRTC noted, and are worried that Canadian content regulations would not apply.
The language commissioner said that without the CRTC rules, subscribers may be “bombarded” with American content.
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I like that: “subscribers may be ‘bombarded’ with American content”. I guess by that they mean the American content that nearly all Canadians watch to the exclusion of nearly any Canadian content, by their own choice, as exemplified by the ratings charts I constantly present to you showing that the top twenty most-watched shows in Canada are 90% American shows, and never or nearly never includes anything on the CBC except hockey, sometimes. (Click here to see a recent one).
But that was a fun little statement!
Here are some resources to learn more.
· Here’s a good video about it—showing you actual wireless TV.
· Here’s a good article, though it’s a little dated already (2004).
· Here’s a Google search already set up for you to learn more about wireless TV.
It’s only a matter of time before wireless TV and other TV is available in a more convenient format.
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