Canuck Photog
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I guess it could be argued that this was bound to happen given that Canwest Global is in bad financial shape. Lots of people could buy this network...Rogers? Shaw? Quebecor?
CP
CP
Sorry, I should of mentioned it was the Canadian franchise, not the US one.That's E! Canada. Comcast owns E! in the U.S. Maybe Comcast will buy E! Canada too.
Warren
Good God, who thought that was a good idea?
1. Besides Vancouver (which is nice), Canada doesn't even have much of an entertainment industry.
2. Canada has 33 million residents, spread over an entire continent.
Whoever thought that a Canadian E! channel was going to fly really, really, really needed to get fired for not running the numbers.
Look at the difference.
1. The USA has the largest entertainment infrastructure in the world.
2. It drives the entertainment of the English speaking world.
3. The USA market has 330 million people in it.
Even Mexico has a 109 million people in it. And I would balk at doing a Mexican E! Channel.
Ah, so there's the rub.We have a number of "US themed" franchise cable/sat channels, like HGTV, MTV, etc., but they are owned and operated by Canadian media conglomerates. Due to foreign ownership rules, US media companies can't own large portions of Canadian companies.
Gee maybe we should apply that to CTV, Global, City TV, Sun TV & the specialty channels. Outside of news the privates don't do too much. Sure there's a couple of shows here and there and some really bad clones of American reality TV.Ah, so there's the rub.
Ya wanna do E! Channel in Canada?
Ya gotta do some Canadian local programming, or you're not allowed in.
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They're all basically in markets where this isn't a lot of growth. I think they only exception is Ottawa, but then again, CTVglobemedia also owns a CTV affiliate up there too.I think we're about to see the same situation with the A-Channels very soon.....they are basically in the exact same position as E!