As I have mentioned previously, I've heard from insiders that if they don't get mandatory carriage they're screwed, and indeed Steve Faguy says they are losing $17 mil a year and need 18 cents per subscriber per month to get by. That in mind, you can leave "an intervention" on this issue at the CRTC home page. You will, I think, find plenty of material on the Sun News Network in the archives here at BCLSB that should help you craft your intervention. Remember, when you are writing, that if this application fails, Ezra Levant will have to move back home to his dad's basement.
PS. They are also demanding a better spot on the dial.
From their supporting docs:
Really? 13,000 viewers? Per what? Month? Day? I am waiting for them to make some 'market place of ideas' arguments now.
ReplyDeleteYou'll be relieved to hear I'll be breathing normally all the while.
That would be the daily average I would think.
ReplyDeleteThat's astoundingly low. I can't believe they're admitting to that. What if their advertisers see that?
ReplyDeleteWingnut welfare and begging - the right's specialties. No wonder the network only has 13K viewers. Who wants to watch a bunch of middle-aged whiners and pearl clutchers anyway? It would be sad if it wasn't so funny.
ReplyDeletePunching above their weight? More like waddling around trying to slap somebody and hitting themselves more often than not.
ReplyDeleteWhat advertisers? Other than Dr. Ho...
ReplyDeleteWell, what a collection of free market capitalists we have here!
ReplyDeleteI don't watch SunTV as I'm cheap and instead choose to watch U.S. Hullu and Netflix..
But there is a certain hypocricy with Sun TV supporting socialist television, except, perhaps, for the fact that they are competing with networks who, uhm.. are funded by the government and who are also demanding mandatory distribution rights.
So.
Can I assume that everyone here would also object to CBC, CTV and Global being entitled to mandatory distribution?
More than twice their viewership earns over 100K than low income. 88% percent of their viewers are not seniors. How did you come to your assessments?
ReplyDeleteRobert, those stations are openly economic interventionalist. So for them it isn't hypocritical. For Sun it is.
ReplyDeleteYou think responding to the SunTrolls is constructive dialogue do you?
ReplyDeleteHave you learned nothing from the past 12 years?
Just to clarify that 13,000 viewers is per week (not day or month) according to the y-axis of the graph. I plan to submit an intervention.
ReplyDeleteI don't think so Harvey; all the numbers I have ever heard on this tend to be a daily average. But by all means submit. I plan to.
ReplyDeleteLoss of analog coverage, I believe refers to when they had to shut down the over-the-air transmitter in Toronto that distibutors in the area were obliged to carry (the old SUN-TV).
ReplyDeleteSun News was never authorized for analog distribution. No channel in the past ten years has been giving an analog license. The best they can hope for, without a massive violation of policy that could only mean gross political interference, is a category A license (must be distributed but not mandatory subscription) as opposed to its current category B (distributors don't have to carry).
They're asking for something that no longer exists as a matter of policy.