FOX News BANNED In Canada (mod note: not entirely true)

[specialK]

The title of this thread is deceptive. We have Fox news in Canada, so it not banned here. They want a Canadian branch of news. This is what is not happening - thank god.

Here is what my cable companies offers:

http://www.shaw.ca/Television/Channel-Listings/Full-Channel-List/

All the FOX channels, including news, are American, except they are allowed to have a Canadian branch sports channel. http://www.foxsports.ca/

That's more than enough.

 

[IPSecure]

Falsifying news is not against the law...

 

[Kevin Smyth]

You don't support free speech?

In the last month here I've seen hundreds of posts complaining about the mainstream media's political bias. I'd love to see Fox shut down, shut it down and fumigate that GOP version of Pravda. What a pigstie that place is.

 

[hillbilly123069]

After researching this, these are the details. Canadian cable companies don't carry Fox News. Only CTV News or BBC World News.
The law referenced only applies to Canadian broadcasters using Canadian airwaves. Basically, it was put in place to ban the CBC (government subsidized) and Canadian broadcasters (using Canadian frequencies) from political ads, infomercials, phony health shows, etc. designed to look like news but selling stuff. Talk shows and discussion groups are not considered news programs. So... this law only affects the CBC and those broadcasting over regular air waves -- it does not affect any US station (they don't broadcast over Canadian air waves), nor any satellite, cable, or internet delivery -- i.e. about 95% of broadcasting is exempt. It is a law we would benefit from greatly here. It IS true, but yes the headline, which I only quoted, is somewhat misleading.

 

[specialK]

After researching this, these are the details. Canadian cable companies don't carry Fox News.

Oh really? Would you be so kind then as to explain what this FOX News is I have been paying my Canadian cable company for?

http://www.foxnews.com/

Fox News

A general news service covering breaking news as well as sports, entertainment, and business news. FNC offers live newscasts every half-hour, 24 hours a day.

http://www.shaw.ca/Television/Channel-Listings/Full-Channel-List/

You had me questioning my own sanity there for a moment, thinking I had been hallucinating Fox News on my TV for years:


Wiki on Fox News in Canada

Canada

In 2003, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) rejected a Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association (CCTA) application to bring Fox News to Canada because Fox News U.S. and Global Television were planning to create Fox News Canada, a combination of U.S. and Canadian news. However in 2004, after a Fox U.S. executive said there were no plans to create the combined channel, the CRTC approved an application to bring Fox News to Canada.[77]

Fox News Channel is currently offered by Access Communications, Bell TV, Cogeco, Eastlink, Manitoba Telecom Services, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw Cable, Shaw Direct and Telus TV. A notable exception is Vidéotron, Canada's third largest cable company, which has not added Fox News Channel to its lineup.

My note: Videotron viewers are primarily Francophone, so this makes sense purely from a linguistic point of view.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel

 

[angelatc]

The title of this thread is deceptive. We have Fox news in Canada, so it not banned here. They want a Canadian branch of news. This is what is not happening - thank god..

If you read the article, it says that that was approved, but Fox wasn't pursuing it. I understand your relief, but there's no law against it. It's just that Fox apparently doesn't want to put the money into it right now.

 

[angelatc]

After researching this, these are the details. Canadian cable companies don't carry Fox News. .

Do tell us how you conducted your research.

 

[specialK]

If you read the article, it says that that was approved, but Fox wasn't pursuing it. I understand your relief, but there's no law against it. It's just that Fox apparently doesn't want to put the money into it right now.

Read the update about that post from the blog owner:

"UPDATED 1-12-12 @6:47 p.m. ET: ... I would like to say a few things: The person who put this post up is no longer with me...

...I don’t know if the individual who put up this post was aware of the above information (my note: the Wiki information I also posted) — I would say not — but though the article says an application was approved to bring Fox News to Canada, despite some quick research, I do not get the impression that Fox News has a channel broadcast from Canada, staffed with Canadians, aimed at Canadians. Far as I can tell, the Fox News seen in Canada is the Fox News produced out of New York City, and it is the same version we see here in the states. So, again, far as I can tell, Fox still hasn’t been granted permission to produce a separate, Canadian-centered news show in Canada."

My impression was the same as this blog owner. Just because "there is no law against it" doesn't mean they have carte blanche to do whatever they want. They would need to put in a new application, or at minimum, receive permission from the CRTC. Good luck with that.

I'm very leery of such articles posted by a netochka nezvanova (nameless nobody), or someone without accountability, that are taken to be truthful as that article was so full of BS, which is ironic since the article was about truth in news, or the lack of it. Quebecor's Sun News has nothing to do with FOX. It is dubbed "Fox News of the North" because it has a right wing slant. Liberals love to hate it, I happen to like it a lot with the exception of its pro-Israel, anti-Islamic stance. It's also the most libertarian news on TV we have. Why the article writer even brought up American FOX News network in Canada is a mystery to me.

Here is what really happened, and almost a year ago at that:

Canada's broadcasting regulator has abandoned its attempt to change a regulation that prohibits the dissemination of false or misleading news.

The decision from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission followed a meeting last week of Parliament’s joint committee for the scrutiny of regulations, which ended its 10-year bid to get the regulation to comply with the law.

The committee was concerned that the regulation violated a 1992 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, which found that the Charter of Rights provision protecting freedom of expression meant a person could not be charged for spreading false information...

Complete article here:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...itches-bid-to-allow-fake-news/article1921489/

Our "FOX News of the North", Sun News, (no relationship to FOX News!) the article refers to:


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[Fort Lauderdale]

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