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Related: About this forum"Canada's Conservative TV News Network Seeks Government Help for Survival"
Canada's Conservative TV News Network Seeks Government Help for Survivalby Etan Vlessing at the Hollywood Reporter
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/canadas-conservative-tv-news-network-414242
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After nearly two years on air, Canadian red-blooded conservative news channel Sun News, dubbed Fox News North by critics, is losing money and begging for a regulatory life-line.
Sun News Network: 'Fox News North' Is Straight Talk and Short Skirts
Quebecor Media, which launched Sun News as an antidote to existing all-news channels at the CBC and CTV with a liberal bias, has told the CRTC the news channel stands to lose $17 million in 2013 , with additional losses after that.
This is clearly unsustainable, the Quebec media giant said in a regulatory filing to the CRTC, the countrys TV watchdog.
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"Canada's Conservative TV News Network Seeks Government Help for Survival" (Original Post)
applegrove
Jan 2013
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oh08dem
(339 posts)1. Better pray to supply-side Jesus... n/t
MAD Dave
(204 posts)6. Dear Supply-side Jesus (pronounced Hay Zeus)
Please let the good news of the bleeding of Sun News,
Be a harbinger of the death of the neo-conservative movement in Canada.
Deliver us from Harper, Glorious and free,
Forever and Ever!
Amen
Cirque du So-What
(25,939 posts)2. Bootstraps, motherscratchers!
Start pulling yourselves up by them! Looks like your corporate patrons know that you are worthless.
jambo101
(797 posts)3. Canadians just aint buying it
A Canadian FOX media type channel just aint going over in Canada so the owners of the failing project want it to be incorporated into the basic cable line up,where no one will watch it anyway but the company will now get some form of subsidies for being a mainstay of the basic cable network.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)4. Oh,
too, too bad.....
Nay
(12,051 posts)5. I think Canada ought to drown it in a bathtub. nt