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Old 07-07-2014, 12:25 AM
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Any one ever wonder why TV programming isn't free since big corporations pay alot of money to have their commerals on the shows and sports we watch ? And we watch them even tho we pay for our programing?
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Old 07-07-2014, 04:31 PM
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Any one ever wonder why TV programming isn't free since big corporations pay alot of money to have their commerals on the shows and sports we watch ? And we watch them even tho we pay for our programing?
Exactly! This is why Netflix is popular. If you pay there are no commercials. Hopefully, this is the future of entertainment.
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Old 09-16-2014, 02:50 AM
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So I've been off the cable TV for almost 2 months now. Took a while for the cable guy to finally disconnect or 'filter' my connection. Ironically in the news recently Rogers & Shaw execs are whining to the CRTC about going slow to implement pick & choose programming. It seems services like Netflix are finally starting to light a flame under someone's a$$, or not.

Meanwhile Telus is sending me plenty of glossy ads in the mail to entice me to buy into their optic TV world. More than once over the past few years I've mentioned to the Shaw telemarketers that I don't wish to pay for basic service with 5,000 useless channels that I don't watch and I don't intend to pay extra on top of that for channels I do find of interest. Is anyone listening?

And of course the CBC, subject to recent funding cuts from the government are also in "the sky is falling camp". I actually like some of the CBC programming but since I no longer have cable, no CBC television. The OTA ATSC transmitter on the hill in Vernon only transmits 2 HD channels, CHBC (owned by Shaw) & CHAN (no idea who they are, but the programming is identical to CHBC). Why does the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, who's mandate I thought was to bring Canadian culture & programming to Canadians everywhere not broadcast from up on the hill in Vernon along with CHBC & CHAN? Not a clue!

On the plus side, I'm getting a lot more work done around the house with only one channel to watch on TV.
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