• Fox News coming to Canada. Well, sort of
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[url]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/fox-news-north-primed-for-launch/article1603483/[/url] [quote=The Globe And Mail]The official announcement of what has been unofficially termed “Fox News North” is coming Tuesday. After reports last week that Quebecor Inc. (QBR.A-T35.00-0.51-1.44%) was poised to launch a 24-hour news channel aimed at more conservative Canadian viewers, the company called a press conference at the Toronto Sun building for Tuesday morning. Quebecor president and chief executive officer Pierre Karl Péladeau will “make an announcement in regard to new investment in Canadian media,” according to a statement. The channel is expected to be built on a mix of straight news reporting and opinion, modelled on the wildly successful Fox News network in the United States. If there is an appetite for a similar platform in Canada, it could be lucrative for Quebecor. In its most recent quarterly earnings, Fox parent company News Corp. reported that revenues at Fox News increased 17 per cent in the three months ended March 31, compared with the same period a year ago. The conservative-slanted channel brings in ratings more than twice as high as any of the other 24-hour news networks in the United States: In May, Fox News drew an average audience of 1.8 million viewers during prime time seven days a week, compared with 747,000 for MSNBC and 595,000 for CNN, according to Nielsen. Higher ratings are a powerful draw for networks seeking to woo advertisers in a tight market. Quebecor is expected to invest roughly $100-million in its news channel over five years. Kory Teneycke, a former chief spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, will head up the project. Last week, Quebecor hired journalists David Akin and Brian Lilley to work at Sun Media’s bureau in Ottawa. (On Monday, reporter Krista Erickson told colleagues that she is leaving CBC News “to pursue another opportunity,” fuelling talk that she could be Quebecor’s newest recruit.) Mr. Teneycke attempted to recruit CBC comedian Rick Mercer as well, but was not successful. There were rumours that Global National anchor Kevin Newman, who announced in April that he would leave the newscast, was also on the hiring list; however in a posting to his Twitter account Mr. Teneycke denied he had attempted to hire Mr. Newman. Sources say Canadian right-wing pundit Ezra Levant is being courted to host one of the new station’s opinion shows. Quebecor submitted an application with the federal broadcast regulator more than a week ago for a licence to operate an English-language news channel. If it is approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the channel would compete against national round-the-clock channels CBC News Network and CTV News Channel. Details of the licence application are also expected Tuesday; it has been suggested that Quebecor could try to secure a licence either guaranteeing that cable companies offer it to customers or secure it a more high-profile place on the dial. Such licenses are rare. Last week, Mr. Teneycke suggested many more announcements are on the way about the channel’s recruiting efforts. [/quote]I was hoping to see Rick Mercer with his own Glenn Beck-style show, but alas
Good God....
Entertainment News, in Canada
NO. Fuck THAT.
What, Canada doesn't have their right-wing news network?
Beaver News.
God damn Canadians taking away our biased right-wingers. Get your own!
Dear Canada, If you make this news station fail miserably I will stop making any and all Canada jokes. Signed, Doomkiwi
It'll probably fail because all of 3 people live in Canada
[QUOTE=mastermaul;24855178]Beaver News.[/QUOTE] Weazel News?
:frog: fuuuck
I had so much hope for you, Canada
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;24855199]It'll probably fail because all of 3 people live in Canada[/QUOTE] I have all four Canadians on my Facebook friends list, and they're all liberal, so if anything Fox can go big as a comedy station.
Opinion as news, speculation as fact; now in Canada.
CTV NewsNet (our 24-hour news network ironically acronym'd CNN - not that they'd ever admit it) is a fucking snorefest so I can't see a conservative version of it doing any better. At least our CNN uses a real ticker instead of the stupid flippy toggle thing they got going on
Fuck right off! I don't want no right wing idiots running tv for my peers to see!
Maple Syrup News
No, Hard News. Fast. Factual. Investigative.
Hope you guys are prepared for legions of misinformed idiots ruining your nice country.
Considering the vast majority of canada is so incredibly liberal(We're not that far left, but Fox news is so far right we look like socialists by comparison) that this should just fail and fall right over. [editline]12:21AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;24856475]Hope you guys are prepared for legions of misinformed idiots ruining your nice country.[/QUOTE] Harpers in office, it doesn't get much more misinformed.
[quote]The channel is expected to be built on a mix of straight news reporting and opinion, modelled on the wildly successful Fox News network in the United States.[/quote] I laughed.
I want Fox News here in Finland so I can laugh my ass off.
[QUOTE=Glitch360;24855125][b]Bad[/b] God....[/QUOTE] Fixed.
I can't imagine anything good coming from this.
i don't see the point of this since most (younger) canadians have a center-left standpoint. might be good for the older crowd, or people who live in northern ontario.
[QUOTE=doomkiwi;24855192]Dear Canada, If you make this news station fail miserably I will stop making any and all Canada jokes. Signed, Doomkiwi[/QUOTE] Ditto.
srry fox no room 4 u here fox plz go
Canadian here. Sun media really is the worst piece of shit company. Here's an example of their "writing" from their newspaper. [quote]Another headache on the DVP By JOE WARMINGTON, Toronto Sun Link The war on the car continues. This time the battlefield is on the Don Valley Parkway. In fact the bicycle-socialists have established a new front that ought to help pay for some new environmentally-friendly bunny suits for our free spending councillors. “Open Sept. 7: $85 for mis-use,” said the flashing electronic sign which alternates that message with “GO Transit bypass lane.” Just like that Toronto Police brass have another fishing hole to waste their officer’s time to vigorously enforce instead of assisting with the city’s dozens of unsolved murders. If your home gets broken into, there will be no investigation but there will be a robust effort to enforce these phony new GO bus lanes. At a cost of $120,000 to the Toronto taxpayer, GO Transit has a new 2.5-kilometre lane — northbound and southbound — between Lawrence Ave. and York Mills Rd, which was previously the shoulder. It will now be a lane strictly for GO buses and if you succumb to the temptation to venture in, you are not only facing an $85 fine but two demerit points. And don’t forget the $90 fine for violating Ontario’s “yield-to-bus” law. No fines ever seem to happen to any of these useless politicians, though. While this is part cash-grab and part road-block, the Cadillac conservationists — who go on carbon-emitting jets on money collected from these fines — will say this is going to make Toronto the greenest morning rush-hour in North America. All this really does is make your life harder — unless, perhaps, you are on one of those 100 GO buses which will have 10 minutes shaved off their trip. Wonder what it will add to the trip of the ostracized motorist? No one seems to care about the 20 minutes stolen from the north Toronto commuter on Jarvis St. thanks to the new bike lanes built for Councillor Kyle Rae’s 100 cycling friends. Sad that for the cost of the $1 billion G20 weekend, we could have had a rail-link run all the way up and down the Don Valley instead of a few coats of paint that will make the DVP even more dangerous. Once again they have stuck up regular people with another disgraceful, distasteful and rapacious robbery of law-abiding and contributing taxpayers while the real criminals laugh out loud. It’s called the war on the car but it really is a war on the average taxpayer, many now living on minimum wage while being driven to, protected and serviced by public sector service workers making close to or more than six figures. Meanwhile struggling families, many whose jobs have been stolen by slave labour countries, must pay these new fines, fees, taxes, levies, delivery charges and permits, with their third salary source — their already maxed-out credit cards which ding families with interest rates at 19%. How fourth-rate failures like McGuinty and Miller can look in the mirror is beyond me. Our role has now become to service the Service Industrial Complex that is there to serve us but has flipped around so that we serve it. It gobbles up every penny in a society that no longer creates anything but new ways to soak our money. This is just another money-collection trap in a long line so plentiful we can’t even remember what they all are any more. Beaten, and with their pockets exposed, many have simply put their hands up in surrender. The truth is there really is no war at all. [/quote] Shame, unlike the paper, I can't wipe my ass with this TV station.
cool, more to add to our shit television. the only shows worth watching are from the US. except corner gas, that owns.
[QUOTE=Athena;24858389]Canadian here. Sun media really is the worst piece of shit company. Here's an example of their "writing" from their newspaper. Shame, unlike the paper, I can't wipe my ass with this TV station.[/QUOTE] Robbers breaking in? I thought Canada left their doors unlocked.
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