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Daren in Brief - DIE HARDER BROADCASTERS
by Daren Foster

Die Broadcasters Die!

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Daren in Brief
Die Harder Broadcasters

by Daren Foster

So it seems Canada’s private broadcasters have the ear of members of the Conservative government who are grilling the CRTC chairman about the regulatory body’s refusal to allow fee-for-carriage charges. This would be money networks extort from cable providers for showing their over-the-air programs just as they do now for their digital channels. Inevitably, the costs would be passed along by the cable companies to the consumers.

Meaning we viewers would have to pay for the privilege of watching a slew of American programming that we could see directly from the source if this country’s private broadcasters hadn’t been granted the right by government fiat to pirate the airwaves in return for reneging on agreements to adequately fund regional programming and high end drama at every opportunity.

While our government stands gleefully by, watching the slow implosion of our public broadcaster, they see fit to take up the cause of privateers who contribute nothing to the national cultural well-being of this country. They exist solely as a means of printing money and to mismanage their affairs to a degree that earns them the right only to crash and burn, leaving no traces of their existence.

Have I said this yet today? Die broadcasters die!!