From: "John Beamish" 

'signal substitution' is a slight misnomer.

I believe we have more commerical minutes per hour than in the US.  Thus
the Americans get to see teasers for the next episode, we get a commercial
for soup.

"Doug Bryce"  wrote in message
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> 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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