Fox News North Secures Broadcast License to Launch in Canada

[babsbunny]

Fox News North Secures Broadcast License to Launch in Canada

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fox-news-north-secures-broadcast-49377

Canada is to get a conservative all-news TV channel after the CRTC on Friday granted Quebecor Media a license to launch Sun TV News nationwide.

The upstart cable channel, dubbed Fox News North by liberal critics, has the go-ahead to launch on January 1, 2011, with the moniker Hard News and Straight Talk.

"It (Sun TV News) will aim to challenge conventional wisdom and offer Canadians a new choice and a new voice on TV," Quebecor Media CEO Pierre Karl Peladeau said as the conservative news channel faces stiff competition from existing cable news channels operated by the CBC and CTV networks.

[Tripper11]

1. Awww crap...

I wonder if it will even last very long.

[Canuckistanian]

2. Wait, I thought this was blocked.

I'll have to check into this.

[Hawkeye-X]

4. Looks like Quebec only n'est ce pas?

Quebec != Canada.

[Canuckistanian]

5. Quebec IS part of Canada

But I severely doubt this new channel will be in French. Quebecers are the most liberal in Canada and they wouldn't put up with Murdoch's shit for a minute. Besides, Quebecers like THEIR OWN shows - American shows and American content are NOT popular.

No, their target is English Canada, especially Ontario, where there is a mix of conservative and liberal views.

[glinda]

11. I that that also.

[Hawkeye-X]

3. Well, here's hoping that Sun News flops so bad that it gets revoked in less than 30 days

After seeing how disgusting their lies are.

And fined every day for their lies. $1,000,000 Canadian a day they are existing.

[applegrove]

10. Oh those ***holes will run that network even if it runs at a loss. Look at the National Post. I

don't think it has ever made a profit.

[Initech]

6. No!!!! Canada it's not too late to save yourself from the Fox News virus that has destroyed us!

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[City Lights]

8. Total bummer.

:hug: to my Canadian friends.

[polly7]

9. Great. Just what we need.

"Quebecor Media¹s chances of landing a license for the upstart cable channel were dealt a blow when it was revealed that Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper and representatives of Quebecor Media had secretly lunched in New York City with Rupert Murdoch and Fox News president Roger Ailes."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fox-news-north-secures-broadcast-49377



"A former spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper resigned as head of the Sun TV News project in September amid controversy over his ties to the Conservative government and allegations he knew that a petition against the Sun channel had been tampered with."

http://www.thestar.com/business/companies/article/897411--quebecor-gets-go-ahead-for-sun-tv-news-channel

There's nothing Harper and his Conservatives won't stoop to.

[glinda]

12. We know how this will end.