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Originally posted by bcdphie
I think either you misheard or misread something, you have been misinformed somewhere or that you need tell somebody to pull the other one, because it has bells on it...
I have never heard of the Canadian gov't outlawing a TV station. I can understand if they had to choose between placing a Cdn News Station and a US one, but that wouldn't outlaw it. There are a number of regulations regarding Canadian content in programming, so maybe the quota for US stations was met.
As far as fining Canadians who do watch it - that's a load of bull. Obviously the ministry of Heritage encourages us to watch Cdn stations and Cdn content, but they would never fine someone.
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Canadians are being fined for watching Fox News because they are getting the station illegally. bcdphie is right when she said that TV shows in Canada have to have Canadian content. When US primetime shows are broadcast here, they are streamed with the Canadian simucast with the Canadian stations that are also showing them, complete with Canadian commercials. Some US cable channels would sometimes show Canadian commercials as well. MSNBC is available on digital cable here and is called MSNBC Canada.