Howdy, I’m sorry I didn’t get a chance recently to give you a decent response.
In all honesty, I think if you look at the state of communications in Canada with even the tiniest bit of a critical eye, you should be able to see the mess the CRTC has created.
Who are the Canadian TV outlets? Bell and Rogers (tiny bit of Shaw) - oh yes, the CBC, representing greater Toronto with zeal.
Who are the Canadian Radio outlets? Do you know of any outside of college radio that aren’t owned by a corporation that’s had to glom a pile of media together to maintain some semblance of a reasonable business?
Look at our disaster of a cellular service industry.
Look at our disaster of internet service.
Tell me, have you ever swung the AM or FM radio dials outside of the few major markets in Canada? Do you hear anything but static now? If it’s a dying medium, why does the CRTC still regulate it like it needs to preserve that precious bandwidth for someone who desperately needs to make a buck off of it? Even if that weren’t the issue, the small players that do try and run a legitimate business on the air have been entangled in so much pointless red tape they’ve been nearly all squished out of existence. Not because they couldn’t sell enough if things were sane, but because they couldn’t keep people around who need to continually fight the bureaucracy to try and help keep their business alive.
Why aren’t the airwaves much busier these days? Any Joe in any small town should be able to put up a community radio station if they want to… and yet… static. (And as I write this, I know of one small town radio station nearby that bucked this trend and I would love to talk to them about it sometime: http://www.thebear931.com/ - I’m definitely aware that what I’m saying isn’t absolute, not at all)
For fun, you could do a search for something like “crtc denies small radio”
They may well have sorted through the red tape and been able to move forward, but oh my good lord - as that ruling notes, there’s all of 3 other radio stations in Whitehorse and they want this one to produce news, not play pop-ish radio and drag people in to their studios from wherever to make the content really local (regardless of whether ‘local’ in that area has a geographic span of a few thousand square KMs or not). Why? Why waste everyone’s time with this? Yes, they need to regulate appropriately, but this isn’t it, it’s just stifling.
I could go on and on (unfortunately, heh!) about it all, they need a massive overhaul of the regulations before there truly is nothing but static out there (and bills like C-10 will just begin to shift all their nonsense on to the Internet, which will be nothing but harmful).
Howdy, I’m sorry I didn’t get a chance recently to give you a decent response.
In all honesty, I think if you look at the state of communications in Canada with even the tiniest bit of a critical eye, you should be able to see the mess the CRTC has created.
Who are the Canadian TV outlets? Bell and Rogers (tiny bit of Shaw) - oh yes, the CBC, representing greater Toronto with zeal.
Who are the Canadian Radio outlets? Do you know of any outside of college radio that aren’t owned by a corporation that’s had to glom a pile of media together to maintain some semblance of a reasonable business?
Look at our disaster of a cellular service industry.
Look at our disaster of internet service.
Tell me, have you ever swung the AM or FM radio dials outside of the few major markets in Canada? Do you hear anything but static now? If it’s a dying medium, why does the CRTC still regulate it like it needs to preserve that precious bandwidth for someone who desperately needs to make a buck off of it? Even if that weren’t the issue, the small players that do try and run a legitimate business on the air have been entangled in so much pointless red tape they’ve been nearly all squished out of existence. Not because they couldn’t sell enough if things were sane, but because they couldn’t keep people around who need to continually fight the bureaucracy to try and help keep their business alive.
Why aren’t the airwaves much busier these days? Any Joe in any small town should be able to put up a community radio station if they want to… and yet… static. (And as I write this, I know of one small town radio station nearby that bucked this trend and I would love to talk to them about it sometime: http://www.thebear931.com/ - I’m definitely aware that what I’m saying isn’t absolute, not at all)
For fun, you could do a search for something like “crtc denies small radio”
Tell me - is the CRTC serving Canadians well by wrapping up a small town volunteer radio station in such a brutally densely stupid pack of regulations? https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2020/2020-334.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=site&utm_campaign=clks
They may well have sorted through the red tape and been able to move forward, but oh my good lord - as that ruling notes, there’s all of 3 other radio stations in Whitehorse and they want this one to produce news, not play pop-ish radio and drag people in to their studios from wherever to make the content really local (regardless of whether ‘local’ in that area has a geographic span of a few thousand square KMs or not). Why? Why waste everyone’s time with this? Yes, they need to regulate appropriately, but this isn’t it, it’s just stifling.
I could go on and on (unfortunately, heh!) about it all, they need a massive overhaul of the regulations before there truly is nothing but static out there (and bills like C-10 will just begin to shift all their nonsense on to the Internet, which will be nothing but harmful).