The Complaints of Jim Shaw
Jan. 11th, 2007 07:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineI am annoyed by Jim Shaw, CEO of Shaw Communications, over something that he's threatening to do to the Canadian Television Fund unless CBC is further starved of funding - via CTF specifically - posthaste.
Mr. Shaw, please cease and desist in this behaviour. Shaw Communications, as far as I can tell, is doing quite nicely as it is. CBC's survival and current levels of funding does not hurt your company irreparably. Your employees are capable of keeping the corporate ship afloat without you making such noises as these. And as a Canadian citizen, a friend to assorted customers of yours, and a CBC viewer and listener, I wish that private broadcasters would kindly fall silent on the subject of the CBC. Their complaints over the fact of its continued existence annoy me. Especially when it succeeds at doing the work that the Broadcasting Act of Canada requires of it.
Mr. Shaw, please cease and desist in this behaviour. Shaw Communications, as far as I can tell, is doing quite nicely as it is. CBC's survival and current levels of funding does not hurt your company irreparably. Your employees are capable of keeping the corporate ship afloat without you making such noises as these. And as a Canadian citizen, a friend to assorted customers of yours, and a CBC viewer and listener, I wish that private broadcasters would kindly fall silent on the subject of the CBC. Their complaints over the fact of its continued existence annoy me. Especially when it succeeds at doing the work that the Broadcasting Act of Canada requires of it.
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Date: 2007-01-17 06:15 am (UTC)I did a quick count today - City is doing fine, Global is slacking a bit but still in there, and CTV... well, they suck. This week: a lousy 4 1/2 hours of CanCon in primetime, and only 1 1/2 hours of drama or comedy. Sorry, but 'Corner Gas' doesn't excuse you from airing your requisite 8 hours, no matter how popular it is.
NOT BLOODY GOOD ENOUGH!
They need to learn a lesson or two from the radio stations that used to bitch about CanCon.