codamedia
The problem is - the CRTC is terrible at implementing these types of things. I suspect six additional channels will end up costing more than 6 bundles.
Yes, that's our biggest problem - the CRTC ostensibly claims to be looking out for the viewers/subscriber/customers, but at the end of the day, it seems to be only 'at the permission' of the big 3 here - Bell, Rogers and Shaw.
Those who have really looked into it, have seen that the 'governing body' of the CRTC is really governed by those players who are so big now, they couldn't fail even if they tried.
Kind of reminds me of the whole financial scandal crisis of 2008 on Wall street.
Instead of anyone going to prison, the CEOs received record bonuses - and government bailouts - all at the tax payer's expense.
But I digress.
Moshkito
...I doubt this would be different in Canada, because Disney/Espn could easily say ... who needs Canada!...
That's yet another thing. With Canada being just over only 10% of the population of America, it's hardly worth the bother for many [most] US companies.
As it is, they are many channels and other things that we simply don't get here. The big 3 control those tighter than a prison, and the CRTC does nothing about it.
The biggest dollars pull the tightest strings, it seems. What else is new, right?
I read on some other sites, that Canadians pay way too much and much more than countries in Europe for TV, Internet, and cell phone service.
And with our dollar now slipping [again] to just 70% of the American dollar, we pay much more for almost everything.
Even our gas costs more, even though we produce plenty and ship a lot of it to America cheaper than what we have to pay for it here.
But I digress yet again.