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Who pays for this blog? I receive no fees, considerations, etc. etc. for the posts on this blog nor do I have any plans to accept any. My salary is paid by Canwest Global Communications Corp. I work for that company as the Ottawa-based National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service. The blog publishing platform used here is called Blogware and it's developed by Tucows Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My use of Blogware should not be taken as an endorsement of that company. Like all Blogware users, I do not pay any fees for the use of this service. I participate in program. Google pays me some money and, for that, I give Google some space on this site to display ads. Google sells those ads and Google, not me, decides what advertising content you are seeing. I do not filter these ads and take no responsibility for them. Readers should not assume I endorse any of the products or services advertised here. If you think other disclosures are appropriate in this space, I'd like to hear from you. All of my contact details are always at www.davidakin.com You can read more about this section |
Thursday, November 18
Do you want Wi-fries with that?
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DavidAkin
on Thu 18 Nov 2004 05:22 PM EST
More on FOX News comes to Canada
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DavidAkin
on Thu 18 Nov 2004 03:29 PM EST
The CRTC document explaining its rationale for allowing the FOX News channel -- and the NFL Channel (hooray!) -- to be added to the digital lineup of channels offered by Canadian cable and satellite television operators has been posted online. In it, the CRTC notes that it received "... 531 ... more »
FOX should be licensed just like Al-Jazeera, group says
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DavidAkin
on Thu 18 Nov 2004 03:05 PM EST
Earlier this year, the CRTC agreed to allow Canadian cable and satellite TV distributors to carry the Al-Jazeera network on their systems but under one impossibly strict condition: The Canadian distributors had to have someone sitting on what radio operators would call the seven-second delay button. To carry Al-Jazeera, the ... more »
Here comes FOX News
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DavidAkin
on Thu 18 Nov 2004 11:29 AM EST
I can find no decision yet at the CRTC's site (Canada's federal broadcast regulator) but the Canadian cable television industry is already cheering a decision widely expected today that FOX News -- the (in)famous home of Bill O'Reilly and others -- can be carried on Canadian cable and satellite TV ... more »
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