Indy TV in Brandon? Make It So, SOMEone!
Feb. 24th, 2009 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineOkay, I don't live in Brandon. I don't live anywhere near Brandon, haven't lived anywhere near since I was about age four. Last time I recall visiting the neighbourhood was the year Diefenbaker died, and I was on my way to effectively pay my respects in the course of my first visit to Ottawa that year.
I've got maybe one friendly acquaintance who lives/lived there and I haven't exchanged e-mails, IMs or anything else with him in years. He might not even care about this issue one way or another. The person living almost next door to Brandon who is on my LJ friendlist, I'd be interested to know his opinion on this.
Seems that there's a TV station in this little city a third of the way from Winnipeg to Regina along the Trans-Canada Highway called CKX. Been chugging along for decades, since before I was born.
I'm hearing from various
sources that CKX is about to risk being shut down for keeps.
I do not like this idea very much. Seems to me as if local communities really ought to have every chance of contributing to the national fun and games as they possibly can.
I know the TV game seems like a losing proposition right now(or is being positioned to look like one, and no, I'm not sure which of the two situations is truth here), but I think CKX - if it's kept going, and I wish I had clue one as to who's best suited and financed to do it - could be part of a Canada worth living in.
Any thoughts, people?
I've got maybe one friendly acquaintance who lives/lived there and I haven't exchanged e-mails, IMs or anything else with him in years. He might not even care about this issue one way or another. The person living almost next door to Brandon who is on my LJ friendlist, I'd be interested to know his opinion on this.
Seems that there's a TV station in this little city a third of the way from Winnipeg to Regina along the Trans-Canada Highway called CKX. Been chugging along for decades, since before I was born.
I'm hearing from various
sources that CKX is about to risk being shut down for keeps.
I do not like this idea very much. Seems to me as if local communities really ought to have every chance of contributing to the national fun and games as they possibly can.
I know the TV game seems like a losing proposition right now(or is being positioned to look like one, and no, I'm not sure which of the two situations is truth here), but I think CKX - if it's kept going, and I wish I had clue one as to who's best suited and financed to do it - could be part of a Canada worth living in.
Any thoughts, people?
