I’ve presented this chart dozens of times over the years and it never really changes. Just about the only time the state-run media, the CBC, ever gets into the top 10, 20, or even 30 shows is when there’s a hockey game on. And even then, it doesn’t often compete very well for viewers.
My understanding of television technology is that with today’s newfangled “electricity” and “television sets” and “cable” and “satellite” and “webcams” and such, most any network or trained monkey can arrange to point “television cameras” at a puck and broadcast hockey games, and I further proffer that any private citizen-owned television business in Canada would be more than thrilled to do so, making a tidy taxable profit as they do so. You know, like in other countries that don’t have state-run media.
If it weren’t for the fact that Canadian taxpayers pay untold millions of dollars to broadcast hockey games on TV, it would seem that hardly anyone watches the state-run taxpayer-funded (to the tune of a BILLION dollars every year) CBC— including even the far left left-wing propaganda that they call “news”.
It seems to me that private capitalist citizen Americans know what we like better than our leftist government.
Top Programs – Total Canada
January 16 – 22, 2006
Based on preliminary program schedules and
audience data, Demographic: All Persons 2+
It could be because the shows that the state-run media broadcasts in Canada with our tax dollars are not popular with Canadians. How’s that for a scientific deduction? Do you think that’s what it is? Perhaps the state and the liberal-left minions they appoint shouldn’t presume to know what Canadians should and should not watch on television and listen to on the radio. And perhaps the liberal-left ideological bureaucrats and politicians in Ottawa don’t have the foggiest clue what we should watch and what we want to watch, and they choose what they’d like us to watch, which often includes pro-left-wing causes, anti-capitalism, pro-environmentalist industry propaganda, anti-conservative tripe, anti-Americanism, and so on.
Of course what I always say about these charts applies here as usual: they insinuate that all those top 30 shows originate on Canadian networks—but nearly all of them don’t in fact. They originate on American networks and are of American origin in every way. For example, American Idol isn’t broadcast on Fox (where it actually originates), but on CTV in the chart.
It’s also worth noting that the chart doesn’t include the hugely popular pay channels or speciality channels like CNN, Fox News Channel (the ratings winner for news in the U.S. with double the viewers of CNN), Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, National Geographic, the multitude of sports channels, Life Network, Book Channel, Family Channel, A&E, History Channel, or countless others.
Chart and data Copyright 2006, BBM Canada.
This chart is cropped to fit our pages. The original chart at BBM Canada shows the Top 30 TV programs for all home market stations for the week indicated. Programs are ranked based on their AMA(000). AMA(000) is the average minute audience in thousands. The chart also indicates the broadcast outlet on which the program aired and the program’s start and end time (shown in Eastern Time).
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