From: doug.bryce{at}sympatico.ca (Doug Bryce)

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:52:41 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>"Doug Bryce"  wrote in message
>news:3e5ab772.21644179{at}news.barkto.com...
>
>> Is it too much regulation or the wrong kind ?    Or both ?
>
>They seem to have this need to meddle in free market situations where there
>is lots of competition in a very effective attempt to turn them into
>monopolies, then once they are monopolies they try to turn them back into a
>competitive market with rules that have no effect at all.
>
>If that's not enough, they also like to force their morals on everyone
>without any representation of the masses.

I'm not sure that our CRTC is heavily into the 'morals' angle.....they
*will* investigate viewer/listener complaints about programming,  but
don't seem to do too much.   When the first season of The Sopranos ran
on *broadcast* TV up here, it ran with all of the requisite disclaimers
about content (it ran unedited).   There were a handful of
complaints and I think the CRTC's comment was that there might have been
one or two occasions where the disclaimer didn't run (coming out of
commercial break) and should have done...and that was it.

We have to deal with 'must carry' and 'signal substitution' rules. We get
stuck with every Canadian channel on 'basic' service and most of our
networks run their US-sourced programming at the same time as the US
networks.....so we get the Canadian feed on both channels. PITA!!

Doug

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