Errata, observations and working notes
from Parliament Hill reporter David Akin
View Article  Do you want Wi-fries with that?
There are some strange and, some say, wonderful things happening to the plumbing of the global network of computer networks that make up the Internet.
The plumbers working away on these things include the type of people you might expect to have an interest in improving the Internet -- computer ...   more »
View Article  More on FOX News comes to Canada
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 »
View Article  FOX should be licensed just like Al-Jazeera, group says
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 »
View Article  Here comes FOX News
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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