By Etan Vlessing
Toronto -- To stay relevant with Canadian audiences shifting online, local TV producers, broadcasters and funders need to work closer and faster to compete against American broadband content flooding into the Canadian market.
"The threat is an influx of U.S. content that will dwarf, or obliterate the Canadian industry, if we don't take measures to survive," Toronto consultant Alan Sawyer told an Interactive Ontario panel on the future of Canadian broadcasting.
Sawyer, a principal of Two Solitudes Consulting, argued U.S. websites like Youtube and Tunes are increasingly broadcasting "into" Canada via streaming technologies, where previously they could only broadcast "in" a protected Canadian TV market with regulatory permission from the Crtc.
Emerging broadband technologies un-tethered to Crtc control now allow Canadians to receive a wall of American digital content that threatens to send Canadian content to the sidelines.
Brady Gilchrist, president of Admodo Group, said...
Toronto -- To stay relevant with Canadian audiences shifting online, local TV producers, broadcasters and funders need to work closer and faster to compete against American broadband content flooding into the Canadian market.
"The threat is an influx of U.S. content that will dwarf, or obliterate the Canadian industry, if we don't take measures to survive," Toronto consultant Alan Sawyer told an Interactive Ontario panel on the future of Canadian broadcasting.
Sawyer, a principal of Two Solitudes Consulting, argued U.S. websites like Youtube and Tunes are increasingly broadcasting "into" Canada via streaming technologies, where previously they could only broadcast "in" a protected Canadian TV market with regulatory permission from the Crtc.
Emerging broadband technologies un-tethered to Crtc control now allow Canadians to receive a wall of American digital content that threatens to send Canadian content to the sidelines.
Brady Gilchrist, president of Admodo Group, said...
- 1/29/2010
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Yesterday I was pissed. I came home and tried to watch the new Avatar trailer on Yahoo and was cruelly informed that the video was “unavailable in my location”. I’m sorry, do I live in the outer-reaches of the Arctic? Last time I checked Toronto was a major metropolitan city. And Canada was a first-world country. We’re a hop-skip-and-a-jump from the United States and Yahoo somehow has the audacity to tell me that I am unable to watch a trailer for an upcoming movie. A trailer. For a movie that I’m fairly certain Fox wants me to pay to see in theatres. Well guess what, Fox? Now I’m going to see Avatar twice, instead of the three times that I had planned to go. So you guys can deal with that.
This, of course, is merely a symptom of a larger problem. I write articles about...
This, of course, is merely a symptom of a larger problem. I write articles about...
- 10/30/2009
- by Clarissa
- TVovermind.com
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