[SteelTown]

Think about 2 weeks ago Rogers said it would buy all of the A Channels.

[vid]

Oh, well then they're sure to remain high quality networks! :tup:


The new Viagra commercials: OMG! (http://www.angryman.ca/blog/2007/04/fing-retarded-commercials.html)

[Jay in Cowtown]

Is anyone else enjoying the final season of the Sopranos?

I surely to fuck am!

[kirjtc2]

No more butchered NFL games on Global....instead, butchered games on CTV and Sportsnet:

http://www.tsn.ca/nfl/news_story/?ID=208530&hubname=
http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/nfl/article.jsp?content=20070522_144158_408

[Jay in Cowtown]

No more butchered NFL games on Global....instead, butchered games on CTV and Sportsnet:

http://www.tsn.ca/nfl/news_story/?ID=208530&hubname=
http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/nfl/article.jsp?content=20070522_144158_408


I'll still have to pay for the Sunday Ticket to watch the Texans... same old Seahawks and Bills fest, just different channel logos at the bottom right of the screen.

[SpongeG]

looks like the never ending awards show is coming soon - argh - could they repeat the show any more? must run t every day twice for a month if not more

Billy Talent, Nickelback lead nominees for MuchMusic video awards

TORONTO (CP) - Billy Talent and Nickelback lead this year's nominees for the MuchMusic video music awards.

The Canadian rockers scored five nominations each for the annual awards gala, a live televised event known for its off-the-wall guests and celebrity stunts.

Belly and k-os snagged four nominations each, and buzz bands Alexisonfire, Feist, finger eleven, and Tokyo Police Club are also up for honours.

The festival-style show takes place June 17 and is set to feature a red carpet parade and live performances in the heart of downtown Toronto.

Pre-show coverage begins at 7:30 p.m. ET and the outdoor show begins live at 9 p.m. ET on MuchMusic.


http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=b75fa93f-06e0-446d-a246-9ad248464f03&k=17554

[kirjtc2]

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/NEWS/RELEASES/2007/r070608.htm

News release
June 8, 2007

The CRTC approves the CTVglobemedia Inc. purchase
of CHUM Ltd., excluding five Citytv stations
OTTAWA-GATINEAU — The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today approved the transfer of effective control of CHUM Ltd. (CHUM) to CTVglobemedia Inc. (CTVgm). The CRTC did not approve the transfer of five Citytv stations in Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver to CTVgm, given that such transfer would be inconsistent with the Commission’s common ownership policy. That policy stipulates that a licensee may not operate more than one conventional television station in one language in a given market.

“The purpose of this policy is to maintain diversity of voices within the Canadian broadcasting system,” said Konrad von Finckenstein, Q.C., Chairman of the CRTC. “Some exceptions to the policy were granted in the past for failing stations in secondary markets. CTVgm asked for the exception using arguments based upon competitive equality and the impact of new media. However, the Commission was not convinced by CTVgm’s arguments.”

Approval of this transaction is conditional on the trustee responsible for the Citytv stations submitting to the Commission, within 30 days, an acceptable plan for the sale of the Citytv stations.

The Commission found, however, that the A-Channel group of television stations did fall into the established exception to the common ownership policy and approved their acquisition by CTVgm. As a consequence of this decision, CTVgm will be able to acquire seven television stations, 34 radio stations and, in whole or in part, 20 specialty television services.

Today’s decision follows a public process that included a public hearing held by the Commission, which began on April 30th.

[kirjtc2]

Also approved today, by the way, were new Rogers OMNI stations, CTS religious stations and CH transmitters for Calgary and Edmonton.

[vid]

I'd like to see OMNI grow. It's a great network concept, aside from the "Everybody Loves Raymond" in 12 different languages. :dizzy:

[kirjtc2]

City has been sold to Rogers...

Rogers to acquire Citytv stations
Canadian press

Rogers Media is buying the five Citytv television stations CTVglobemedia Inc. was ordered to sell in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $375 million.

The companies said late Monday the deal replaces a previously announced agreement where CTVglobemedia Inc. was to sell the A-Channel stations and certain specialty channels to Rogers Media.

The stations being sold include Citytv in Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver.

“The acquisition of the Citytv stations will significantly expand our television operations and solidify our position as an important participant in the Canadian television industry,” Rael Merson, president of Rogers Broadcasting said in a release.

“It gives Rogers an instant and significant television presence in the largest markets in the country and is a natural complement to our existing television broadcasting and specialty assets.”

Ivan Fecan, president and CEO of CTVglobemedia Inc. and CEO of CTV Inc. said Rogers came in with a “very strong offer on a pre-emptive basis ... This outcome is good for both the businesses and the stations’ employees.”

The deal is subject to regulatory approvals and transaction is expected to close late in 2007.

CTVglobemedia was ordered by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission last week to sell off the five Citytv stations as a condition for approval of its $1.7-billion purchase of CHUM’s network of radio and TV stations.

The CRTC gave the network 30 days to table acceptable plans for the sale.

The federal regulator said that since CTV already has conventional stations in Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg, it cannot keep CHUM’s Citytv stations in those markets.

The City stations are among the most important assets in the CHUM chain, which also includes 33 radio stations and 21 specialty cable channels.

CTVglobemedia’s CTV division operates 21 conventional television stations across Canada and has interests in 15 specialty channels.

“The purpose of the policy is to maintain diversity of voices within the Canadian broadcasting system,” said commission chairman Konrad von Finckenstein.

He conceded that the commission has granted exemptions to the so-called “twin sticks” policy in the past, but said those were in secondary markets and as a last resort to save stations from going dark.

CTVglobemedia said in a separate release Monday it has accepted the CRTC’s June 8 ruling, regarding what it called “effective control of CHUM Ltd.

“We are embracing this decision. The people of CHUM Limited have been in limbo for almost a year and it is in everyone’s best interest to move forward and build a stronger Company from the combination of CTV and CHUM,” said Fecan in a statement.

CTVglobemedia said it will keep the A-Channels and Access Alberta and that the previously announced sale of CHUM’s interest in specialty stations MusiquePlus and MusiMax to Astral Media will also go forward. the company said.

CTVglobemedia said it will keep all other CHUM assets with the possible exceptions of specialty channel Canadian Learning Television and CBC affiliate CKX-TV, Brandon.

The company said it will announce its intentions for these stations in the next few days.

CTVglobemedia is owned by a group that includes the billionaire Thomson family’s private Woodbridge Co., Torstar Corp. (TSX:TS.B), the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE).

Rogers Media is a division of Rogers Communications (TSX:RCI.B). Its holdings range from dozens of radio stations and specialty TV channels such as Omni and Rogers Sportsnet to Maclean’s and Chatelaine magazines and the Toronto Blue Jays.

----

My guess is that the A-Channels, together with the Brandon station, ASN in the east and possibly Access, form a second national network like CH.

[SpongeG]

Rogers to become Canada's fourth TV network

"I can't believe there's any media buyer in the country who doesn't think this is a good outcome," Bruce Claasen, CEO of Genesis Media, tells MiC. He's talking, of course, about the sudden announcement last evening that Rogers Media has ponied up $375 million to solve the dilemma foisted on CTVglobemedia last week by the CRTC. Namely, that CTVgm's acquisition of CHUM properties could proceed only if the five City stations were chopped out of the $1.7-billion deal.

"In a single move, Rogers has become a fourth television network in Canada," Claasen explains. "Six months ago, they owned a couple of specialty channels and that was an interesting dabble. But now they're actually a player. That's an incredible achievement, but the funny thing is, it wasn't even their own initiative. It was the CTV deal that put Rogers in play."

David Campbell, president of MBS, amplifies the point, saying the deal "creates another strong broadcasting presence in the country, which we sorely needed because it had turned, certainly in English Canada, into a duopoly."

We'll probably never know how long Rogers had this chess move in mind. But Rogers Broadcasting president Rael Merson nailed its significance, stating that the deal "gives Rogers an instant and significant television presence in the largest markets in the country and is a natural complement to our existing television broadcasting and specialty assets."

It's partly the breadth of Rogers Media's assets - and the opportunities they offer for big-time synergies - that makes the news so welcome to the media community. A division of Rogers Communications, it operates both Rogers Publishing and Rogers Broadcasting, which has 51 AM and FM radio stations across Canada. Television properties include multicultural television broadcaster Rogers OMNI Television; the Shopping Channel, a televised and electronic shopping service; and Rogers Sportsnet. Then there's Rogers Publishing, which includes major consumer magazines Maclean's, Chatelaine, Flare, L'actualité and Canadian Business, as well as industry, medical and financial pubs. All these media properties are integrated with Rogers websites. Additionally, Rogers Media owns The Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club and the Rogers Centre sports and entertainment facility.

But it's also Rogers' proven marketing savvy and professionalism that's exciting the media professionals who spoke to MiC today. "Rogers has a great track record, and I think virtually all the agencies have had very good relationships with them," says Campbell. "They're very professionally run and managed."

How should Rogers proceed, if the CRTC approves its purchase of the City stations, as seems likely? "My big hope would be that they would maintain the culture of the City stations and their approach to business, which has in the past been quite different in many respects from that of other broadcasters," says Hugh Dow, president of M2 Universal. "It's very important for them to keep their personality. That's what made the City stations an attractive buy for many advertisers, and particularly for the target groups they reached, which tended to be younger audiences. So I'd like to see them continue the tradition of City being a kind of entrepreneurial and promotionally oriented broadcaster that was prepared to work with the advertising community to develop innovative and different approaches to reaching their target audiences."

As the possible dropping of a third shoe in this drama, there is now speculation about what will become of the A channels. In what looked like an unenthusiastic concession when the CRTC balked at the scope of the network's proposed acquisitions at the spring hearings, CTVgm sold the A channels to Rogers. Might that deal now be halted?


If it isn't, in Dow's opinion, "the first thing CTVgm has to figure out is exactly what role the A channels are going to play within their portfolio, and how to differentiate them from their other television properties. The A's tend to be smaller, local market stations, so how are they going to be programmed, and how will they be marketed in combination with their other properties?"

Campbell doesn't believe CTVgm will get rid of the A Channels. What interests him more is how the micro-surgery that will be necessary to separate some former CHUM assets will be accomplished. A case in point, he says, is the CP24 news operation, which has depended heavily on Toronto's Citytv for programming, but is a specialty channel that's now owned by CTVgm. "It will be interesting to see whether CP24 will be folded into the Rogers deal or reprogrammed."

How are Rogers' Omni multicultural channels likely to fare now? Campbell doesn't see much synergy between Omni and the City stations - "apart from behind-the-scenes operational efficiencies to reduce costs. In terms of what Omni does for consumers and for advertisers, I'd see it staying fairly distinct."

Dow envisages attractive "cross-promotional opportunities with Rogers' extensive print and radio properties" to promote the City channels. But "rather than much cross-television synergy," he expects to see "more synergies between print and television. There's a whole bunch of new areas that we'll be looking at to see how they develop and what new elements they bring to the market."

Another question on people's minds is whether City's physical operations will stay put or be moved. Rogers spokesperson Jan Innes says it will vary by city. "We will have to find a new home for the City station in Toronto because CTVglobemedia owns that building . . ." In other cities, she says the decision to move or not to move will "depend on whether the real estate is owned or not."

Concludes Classen: "The good news is that we've now got Astral, CanWest, CTV, CBC and Rogers, which is lovely because we've now got a strongly competitive marketplace. So I think all the media buyers in the country are happy campers."

Bottom line? Says Sunni Boot, president of ZenithOptimedia, "The future looks exciting."



http://www.mediaincanada.com/articles/mic/20070612/rogers.html

[SpongeG]

the other day i was reading that CH Victoria will become E! (entertainment television) and carry a lot of the E! Channel shows from E! in the states as well as most of the shows it used to carry when it was CH

kind of weird

[vid]

Yeah, that was announced a while ago. Poor Hamilton. Losing the only local station they had.

They have to be the largest city in NA without a real local TV market. :(

[SteelTown]

Hamilton will still have local news, it'll be rebranded as CHCH (morning show, lunch, evening and late night news) on the new E! program. Just the type of tv shows will be different, for example Ryan Seacrest will become the new face of E! (he'll be hosting an entertainment type of show each day), re runs of E! True Hollywood Story, Joan Rivers Red Carpet, blah blah blah crap like that.

Hamilton will be the home of E! Channel.

[vid]

Ryan Seacrest? God help you.

It's going to be a disaster.

[SpongeG]

it will also show paris hilton and nicole ritchie's simple life

i saw some CTRC application in the paper for tri something in the paper yesterday - i wonder what its for - looks like a TV thing

[vid]

According to the CRTC website, they're looking for someone to start a new radio station in Windsor.

I can't find anything about that "tri-something" though. Try looking in the newspaper again. ;)

[SpongeG]

yeah if its not thrown out...

[vid]

Thrown out? You're supposed to recycle them! :O

[SpongeG]

it was at work on the table - i suppose someone recycles them

[The Kid]

it was at work on the table - i suppose someone recycles them

Ya, I'm sure the janitor recycles them right into the garbage. Someone at the office should take responsibility and make sure it is being recycled.

[MolsonExport]

http://www.currumbin-sanctuary.org.au/graphics/popups/wildlife_birds_barking_owl.jpg

"...Craig Oliver, CTV News, Ottawa."

[WHISTLERINMUSKOKA]

Cool Toronto band.

http://www.godmademefunky.com/wonmoretime.htm
:upload_71700:

[Jay in Cowtown]

Anyone check out the series premiere of Californication? What a great fucking show!!!

[habsfan]

Anyone check out the series premiere of Californication? What a great fucking show!!!

What channel? What's it about?

[Jay in Cowtown]

What channel? What's it about?

Showtime, Movie Network or Movie Central - Sunday at 7:00.

[MolsonExport]

tERzxc0r9cg

[Rico Rommheim]

A ha ha ha haaaa! What the hell is that? Its awesome!

[vid]

Casting call for extras
Tb News Source | Web Posted: 9/4/2007 2:28:45 PM
http://www.tbsource.com/Localnews/index.asp?cid=99390

Here's an opportunity for aspiring actors to see their faces on the big screen. A casting call is being held in the city looking for extras for a major motion picture titled Death Instinct.

The call is out for bit parts in the $70 million budget film being shot at the Thunder Bay Airport and casting coordinator Lee Chambers explains the city was chosen as a location because of an antique plane.

Chambers says they are looking for about 100 people between the ages of 25 to 60 to fill the positions and anyone who makes the cut will be paid $100 for their work.

The casting call will take place Wednesday evening at the Shuniah Building at Confederation College.

That's one of the most unusual excuses for anything I've ever heard, but the tens of hundreds of dollars this will put into the economy will be ok.

[SpongeG]

E! channel is up and running

meh

Deja view has added some new oldies - facts of life, cosby, good times, roseanne, whos the boss etc.

[SpongeG]

Tri-Cities may get own radio station (coquitlam - pt moody - pt coquitlam)

The Tri-Cities may soon have a radio station of its own, if a proposal by McBride Communications is approved.

Matthew McBride, president of McBride Communications and Media Inc., hopes to establish a commercial FM station (with the call letters CFPM) that would feature contemporary pop, jazz and world-beat music and extensive coverage of news, sports, politics, issues and community events in the Tri-Cities.

The station would be located on the ground floor of the new Aria residential tower in the Suterbrook development on Murray Street (at Ioco Road) in Port Moody, and be visible from the street.

The company owns broadcast licences in Tofino, Ucluelet and Pemberton, and specializes in small-market radio stations.

It does not require the city's endorsement to go ahead with the proposal, but was expected to approach council Tuesday (after NOW deadlines) for comments to be forwarded to the CRTC (Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission).

In a letter to council, McBride said the station would be a "local radio station staffed by local personalities."

"This normally produces a radio station that you would not expect in big cities!" McBride wrote. "Think Northern Exposure, with less moose."

According to a report by McBride Communications, a market survey in May 2007 showed strong support for a local station.

If all applications are approved, the station is expected to begin broadcasting by September 2008.

http://www.canada.com/coquitlamnow/news/story.html?id=2241b0ac-a888-420f-ac0a-59ed113eaa51&k=8985

[LordMandeep]

Interesting game i played.... Its about running an election, and you can be any party you want.

http://www.theoryspark.com/pmforever/info/index.htm

Well i switched the liberals to be right wingers, the conservatives to be radical socialists and the NDP were moderate.

Well, the Liberals were sweeping Alberta including the riding of crowfoot. The NDP were huge in Quebec and the rest of the country, while the conservatives were sweeping Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal...


Why god knows what i did, but i screwed things badly....

Harper wining seats in Toronto...:haha: :haha:

Liberals winning crowfoot... :jester: :jester: :jester: :jester:
NDP dominating Quebec... :sly:

[kirjtc2]

Global's decimating local news. I used to be a loyal viewer, I'm now a CBC News at 6 guy...

CanWest cuts 200 TV jobs; moves to more digital offerings
Barbara Schecter, National Post
Published: Thursday, October 04, 2007

TORONTO -- CanWest MediaWorks expects to shed about 200 jobs from its news operations over the next 18 months as it centralizes broadcasting operations in four cities and invests in new digital technology.

Christine McGinley, senior vice-president of operations for CanWest MediaWorks, which runs the Global Television and E! networks, said news coverage in cities including Hamilton, Montreal and Winnipeg will continue to be assigned, gathered and anchored locally, but newscasts will be broadcast from control rooms in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto.

The reorganization does not require approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission because the hours of local programming required by the broadcaster's television licences will be maintained, said Ms. McGinley.

"We are evolving from an analogue to a digital world, and we have to be there whether we want to or not," she said, noting a regulatory requirement for all Canadian broadcasts to be switched over to high-definition signals by 2011.

Production staff affected by the cuts announced Thursday are being encouraged to apply for 50 new positions at the four broadcast centres, which are all expected to be operational by the spring of 2009.

CanWest is investing $30-million in the new digital broadcast centres. The annual savings resulting from the job reductions will be determined when the exact number of layoffs is known, a company spokesperson said. One analyst estimated the savings would amount to about $7-million to $10-million a year.

The cuts will go further than production and technical staff in the Maritimes and Quebec, where news operations are unprofitable, said Ms. McGinley.

Six full-time and two part-time employees in Quebec City were given layoff notices Thursday, leaving two full-time news staff to cover events there, she said.

CanWest employs about 2,000 production staff across its broadcasting operations, with about 1,500 of those at its stations across the country.

Steve Wyatt, senior vice-president of news and information at CanWest MediaWorks, said the new digital technology will permit broadcast centres to insert graphics and sets that are tailor-made for the local news markets, while creating a look that will unify the newscasts under the Global and E! umbrellas.

Financial Post
bshecter@nationalpost.com

[ReginaGuy]

As my first contribution to this thread, I suggest we eliminate the CBC, so I don't have to suffer through another CFL game with Chris Walby. Not just to pick on Walby, CFL on CBC is pretty bad all-around

[LordMandeep]

CBC news is good.

They don't try to scare you and focus on the less known issues.

[ReginaGuy]

^ Yes, I've noticed Global news is becoming more "American", in the way they try to scare you

[LordMandeep]

yeah those stupid stories, about 400 dollars of Tax Money being spent on something they think is stupid...

Also by brining on talk show hosts as experts of issues...

[vid]

I don't get Global news here. :) Or CBC news for that matter. Just an hour of locally produced, straight-talking no-scare news hour. The production qualities may not be the best, but TBTV does news right.

[Rico Rommheim]

TBTV cobers international news aSWELL?

[vid]

The video report is from other sources but they will have the lead in, though sometimes they get just video and TBTV's anchors will tell the story over the video. They use stories from CBC, CTV, Global, CNN and MSNBC. Mostly CBC, though, because that's the affiliate. They aim for the shortest stories, because their non-local news is only 12 minutes long. :P They do the same with sports stories, local sports are covered by them, non-local is either a report from another network (rebroadcast with permission) or video from another source with local voice over.

[DC83]

This was posted by Steeltown in the Hamilton Forum.

It's a link to a shot of a car explosion scene for the upcoming Hulk Movie being filmed down the street from my condo downtown Hamilton!

http://www.themovieblog.com/2007/10/incredible-hulk-set-explosion-video

Check it out... super kewl!

[SteelTown]

^ Here's a few still shots of the explosion

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a382/hammer396/boomboom.jpg

Look at that, that's like a 5 storey fire bomb
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a382/hammer396/boomboom1.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a382/hammer396/boomboom2.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a382/hammer396/boomboom3.jpg

[kirjtc2]

Yet another US reality show coming north. Does anyone here watch this? Some friends of mine are obsessed with it but I don't get the appeal.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Entertainment/951678.html

So You Think You Can Dance coming to Canada

Hip-hop, krumping, popping, salsa, quickstep and jive may have to make way for step-dancing. That’s because locals will get to dust off their dancing shoes after CTV announced that it is producing So You Think You Can Dance Canada, a home-grown version of the popular international series.

In an inevitable business deal, the Canadian rights to the series were secured from 19 Entertainment, Ltd. and dick clark productions, co-owners of the format.

The agreement was completed Tuesday in Cannes, France. Terms were not disclosed.

The Canadian version of the series is based on So You Think You Can Dance, the Emmy Award-winning program created by Simon Fuller and Nigel Lythgoe that premiered in 2005.

Canada joins the U.S., Norway, Denmark, Greece, Turkey and Israel as markets with an original So You Think You Can Dance production.

Original versions of the series are currently being produced in Australia, Poland and Malaysia with an upcoming edition in Scandinavia.

CTV says complete details for So You Think You Can Dance Canada, including the host, judging panel and nationwide audition process, will be announced soon.

So You Think You Can Dance is a Top Three summer series in Canada with an average audience of 1.25 million, according to CTV, and follows in the footsteps of Canadian Idol, which premiered on CTV in 2003.

[SpongeG]

does Canada have any celebrities? i mean the besides the ones that abandoned us for Hollywood?

is it going to be don cherry and pamela waldin?

[Rico Rommheim]

does Canada have any celebrities?

Roy Dupuis
Marie-Jose Croze
Michel Coté
Patrick Huard
caroline neron
Marc Labrèche
Denys Arcand
Rémy Girard
Celine Bonnier

Just to name the ones that come to mind

Of course they're all quebecers and they're not considered celebrities by the e-talk people.

[Nutterbug]

Roy Dupuis
Marie-Jose Croze
Michel Coté
Patrick Huard
caroline neron
Marc Labrèche
Denys Arcand
Rémy Girard
Celine Bonnier

Just to name the ones that come to mind

Of course they're all quebecers and they're not considered celebrities by the e-talk people.

I'm sure they'd be considered gods by the e-parler people.

[ReginaGuy]

Roy Dupuis
Marie-Jose Croze
Michel Coté
Patrick Huard
caroline neron
Marc Labrèche
Denys Arcand
Rémy Girard
Celine Bonnier

Just to name the ones that come to mind

Of course they're all quebecers and they're not considered celebrities by the e-talk people.

yeah.. that's why they're not considered celebrities..

[Rico Rommheim]

I'm sure they'd be considered gods by the e-parler people.

To continue the patronizing, I'll say that they're not Gods but better, you see, here in the Province of Quebec, we're all fucking poor and french, so these people are our overlords, for example Karine Vanasse runs the sex shops.

[MolsonExport]

yeah.. that's why they're not considered celebrities..

Beg to differ, but they most certainly are in Quebec, and some are even quite popular in France.

[Rico Rommheim]

That's right molson exportk, but you know this because you've lived here. Many canadians don't know or underestimate the Quebec film industry and the Quebec star system. For many who move to Montreal, they are shocked that we would actually follow the day-to-day lives of our own celebs. Also, although very young and not yet fully mature, the Quebec film industry is the only film industry operating in NA outside of Hollywood. Unlike Canada, quebec directors do not leave quebec for Hollywood, they prosper and mature right here.

[Rico Rommheim]

That's right molson exportk, but you know this because you've lived here. Many canadians don't know or underestimate the Quebec film industry and the Quebec star system. For many who move to Montreal, they are shocked that we would actually follow the day-to-day lives of our own celebs. Also, although very young and not yet fully mature, the Quebec film industry is the only film industry operating in NA outside of Hollywood. Unlike Canada, quebec directors do not leave quebec for Hollywood, they prosper and mature right here.

[DC83]

Roy Dupuis
Marie-Jose Croze
Michel Coté
Patrick Huard
caroline neron
Marc Labrèche
Denys Arcand
Rémy Girard
Celine Bonnier

Just to name the ones that come to mind

Of course they're all quebecers and they're not considered celebrities by the e-talk people.

hehehe could you see Roy Dupuis judging a dance competition??

It'll most likely be Ed the Sock (Now owned by CTV), Brent Butt & Sass Jordan!! She needs all the work she can get! hahaha
you know your show means business when it's judges are a sock puppet, a guy who's character runs a rural gas station and a still out-of-work-despite-canadian-idol 80's pop star!

ps: none of these ppl have actually been confirmed (or suggested)... I'm just using a CTV Template! ...so of course Ben Mulroney wld be involved somehow!

[Maldive]

26 degrees C, blue sky, sun and...

2 new office towers move forward (Rich/Adel 3 and 151 Front).

Read 'em and weep.

[Rico Rommheim]

^:shrug:

[LordMandeep]

Paul Anka sings Smells like Teen spirit...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsS811o21-k


Well at least we know the Lyrics...

[vid]

We already already knew the lyrics. He should try modest mouse. We'll see how he interprets a song where the "official" lyrics are peppered with "(gibberish)". Heck, I would pay to see Paul Anka try This Devil's Workday. Just for the absurdity of it.

====

Sum 41 Gardens show cancelled
Tb News Source | Web Posted: 10/22/2007 11:31:04 AM

A serious back injury to Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley means Friday's show at Fort William Gardens has been shelved.

Strength in Numbers tour promoter Live Nation made the official announcement on Monday, but failed to provide details of the injury or how it occurred, just that it happened while on tour.

Sum 41 was scheduled to play Thunder Bay along with hitmakers Finger 11. Full ticket refunds will be available at the Fort William Gardens box office.

Well that is just too bad. :haha:

[Nutterbug]

Paul Anka sings Smells like Teen spirit...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsS811o21-k


Well at least we know the Lyrics...

Pat Boone eat your heart out.

[kirjtc2]

So Finger 11 isn't paralyzed, but Sum 41 is.

Got it.

[SteelTown]

Has anyone been watching Project Runway Canada lately? It's on Mondays at Slice Network.

[204]

Charges of fascism can't stop Croat singer's secret gig
By BRETT CLARKSON, SUN MEDIA

After his show was dropped by two local venues, a popular Croatian rock star accused of promoting fascism yesterday performed an apparently secret gig at a Croatian community centre north of Mississauga.

Marko Perkovic, who also goes by the stage name Thompson, played for several thousand fans at the Croatian Centre in Norval, a village in Halton Region.

Perkovic was originally slated to play the Kool Haus, but club owners axed the event after catching wind of a controversy that has long dogged him.

Critics accuse Perkovic of having performed a song that celebrates two concentration camps where about 90,000 Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and anti-fascists were murdered by a pro-Nazi regime in Croatia. Perkovic's fans say he didn't write or record the song.

After the Kool Haus pulled out, the Thompson gig was then rescheduled for The Sound Academy. Management there also cancelled. The venue was then moved to the Croatian Centre and kept under wraps.

Hundreds of cars yesterday poured into the Croatian Centre, with some concert-goers waving Croatian flags. Two young men, who declined to give their names, were eager to defend Perkovic.

"He sings for our country and that's it," said one.

What country would that be? I'm guessing not Canada.

Asshats...

[harls]

these new 'air miles' commercials are annoying me.. the one with the Spanish matador painting reprimanding some bitch about leaving her air miles card on the counter while she went out shopping for panty-liners and face cream. "so you are giving up our dream to go to spain?" he says.. yeah, how many fuckin' years worth of shopping would that take? she'll be an old senior hag by the time she's got enough air miles to fly to Spain... fuck, I've been a member of air miles since 1999 and I've got like 400 god damn airmiles.. what does that get me? a free movie pass for 2 at famous players or some garbage..

[MolsonExport]

^yeah, Airmiles is a farce, merely a way of building a database on your purchasing history. My Dad has been collecting airmiles since 1992, and he has enough to fly from Penticton to Kelowna, or a bottle of windshield wiper fluid.

[vid]

The Tim Hortons commercial where everyone is looking for change. If the fucking place allowed debit cards like EVERY OTHER STORE ON EARTH we wouldn't be in this mess.

[Jay in Cowtown]

The Tim Hortons commercial where everyone is looking for change. If the fucking place allowed debit cards like EVERY OTHER STORE ON EARTH we wouldn't be in this mess.

They do.

[O-Town Hockey]

They do.

Not around here they don't. Luckily, I'm not one of the hundreds of thousands of Timmy's coffee junkies here in Ottawa or I'd be part of those awful drive-thru lineups.

http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/e8fc37c0-9af6-4ed2-8331-794b1fc31fb8.jpg

[SpongeG]

does anyone like that wal-mart commercial?

the one where the woman is wrapping an electronic pet and the phone rings so she answers and the mad dog grabs the toy and burys it?

lol

loves it

[Jay in Cowtown]

Not around here they don't. Luckily, I'm not one of the hundreds of thousands of Timmy's coffee junkies here in Ottawa or I'd be part of those awful drive-thru lineups.

http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/e8fc37c0-9af6-4ed2-8331-794b1fc31fb8.jpg

Yeah, they do have debit at the ones around here... I only go through the Timmys drivethru if there's 2 or less cars, so at 2:00am... Starbucks is my coffee house anyway!

[MolsonExport]

Anyone else hate the retarded Best Buy video's featuring the useless, geeky sales clerks?

[vid]

Tim Hortons here don't have debit. That's why I always went to Robins. They say that the lack of debit is to help things move faster but it actually goes slower. Either that, or fourteen teenage girls (and one probably gay guy) can't do half the work of two middle aged women with no teeth. :frog:

Obviously, Robin's Donuts is much more Canadian than this "Tim Horton's" place.

[harls]

The new Special K commericals are making me irritable. I've never had anything against Special K itself, but now I avoid it because every time I see a box, I think of the overly-flamboyant homosexual guy and those two barbies in the office environment. "join the club? honey, you created the club".. "let's take a moment... and, .... we're back".

Fuck off.

[SpongeG]

tim hortons here as debit i think

i hate when people anywhere use debit to buy a $1.50 item

don;t they know they get charged probably double that for just using debit by their bank?

[MolsonExport]

The new Special K commericals are making me irritable. I've never had anything against Special K itself, but now I avoid it because every time I see a box, I think of the overly-flamboyant homosexual guy and those two barbies in the office environment. "join the club? honey, you created the club".. "let's take a moment... and, .... we're back".

Fuck off.

Yeah I hate those too.

What about first-choice haircutters (or magiccuts, or whatever...they are all the same): that annoying girl with the teeth: "I like what you did last time...let's do it again!" And then a flash of her vampire chompers a few secs later when she is delighted with the product.

[harls]

That girl looks like a horse. And they put it in slow-motion, which accentuates even further said horse-mouth.

[Mille Sabords]

The new Special K commericals are making me irritable. I've never had anything against Special K itself, but now I avoid it because every time I see a box, I think of the overly-flamboyant homosexual guy and those two barbies in the office environment. "join the club? honey, you created the club".. "let's take a moment... and, .... we're back".

Fuck off.

:haha: :haha: :haha: If only the people who do market research could spend half an hour browsing through these posts.

[MolsonExport]

That girl looks like a horse. And they put it in slow-motion, which accentuates even further said horse-mouth.

http://religiapokoju.blox.pl/resource/horseface.jpg

"I like what you did last time...Let's do it again!"




:D

[HomeInMyShoes]

I'm rather glad I've pared my TV watching down to Robot Chicken and Mythbusters.

[MolsonExport]

Speaking of Horsefaces, identify this Canadian horseface:
http://www.onlinegolfnews.co.uk/Images/ames.jpg

[Rathgrith]

I've stopped collecting airmiles, such a fucking waste! I'm now a paranoid anti-consumerist who only uses cash. For now, that is.

But you know what I hate more!? Those damn "Brand Power" commercials! Buy better my ass! Their just selling a bunch of cheap shit you don't really need.

[SpongeG]

this always makes me laugh

when Radio stations run commercials for satellite radio

isn't that like shooting yourself in the foot?

[HomeInMyShoes]

^Haha. I love that kind of stuff.

Anyone watch "Canada's Worst Drivers" last night? Man, these people are good. I mean bad. I mean, holy shit, I never trusted anyone else on the road before, but now I'm going to have nightmares.

[kirjtc2]

But you know what I hate more!? Those damn "Brand Power" commercials! Buy better my ass! Their just selling a bunch of cheap shit you don't really need.

Helping you buy better? More like a thinly veiled ad for whatever it is they're trying to push. Very very lame, and I think 95% of people see right through it.

Now, I see those damned Chrisco Hampers are invading our airwaves again. It's nothing but a layaway plan for groceries, and the ads are uber-annoying to boot.

[vid]

Those Chrisco things are a scam. You end up paying 100$ for 45$ of food.

[SpongeG]

no doubt eh

love this

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[Rico Rommheim]

Very very lame, and I think 95% of people see right through it.



But that's the thing, if they can retain just 5% of all who's watching, then their effort is more than justified.

[harls]

those 'brand power' ads are for marketing teams that blew all their budget money on booze and whores and need to come up with something before deadline.

[MolsonExport]

^helps to provide a second career for washed-out Canadian athletes like Hailey Wickenheiser and Josee (IceAss) Chouinard, so they can make a few bucks slinging that dogfood for people, Hamburger Helper.

[harls]

Ugh. Hamburger Helper. :yuck:

Another series of ads that piss me off - those Service Canada morons ... with their stupidly placed booths and dumbass shit-eating grins.

[MolsonExport]

I am sick and tired of this ad:

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[kirjtc2]

I'm a member of the Conservative party and I don't even get the point of those ads. They'll be forgotten by election time.

[vid]

I'm a member of the Conservative party and I don't even get the point of those ads. They'll be forgotten by election time.

Not by this voter.

Not that I was undecided before they aired, but still. It's an extremely stupid thing.

There is a local commercial for a sauna on tv here, and... you'd have to see it. It's stupid.

[oilsmack99]

The point of those ads is to show that Dion is weak and not a good leader for his party, and by extension, the country. Since the majority of the country in polls agrees with this, I say the ads did the job, even if they didn't knock your socks off. If you want to vote for a weakling who will cook the golden goose that is driving the country's economy (Alberta), fill your boots.

I would argue further, but since the Conservatives will win every seat in Alberta, by an increased margin, I won't waste my breath. The rest of you's do whatever the hell you want, I say, we rule, great, we separate, even better.

I just thought of all that money we give to the welfare bum provinces and the federal suck a tit programs, being put into Edmonton and Calgary, gold plated LRT baby, all over. Potholes outlawed. Sweet.

[MolsonExport]

^don't let the door hit your rear on the way out.

[vid]

The point of those ads is to show that Dion is weak and not a good leader for his party, and by extension, the country.

They need an ad to do that? :sly:

[SpongeG]

TiVo finally comes to Canada

TiVo, the popular U.S. television-recording device, is finally arriving in Canada in early December.

The TiVo set-top device, which allows viewers to record shows and skip commercials, will be available across Canada — except in Quebec — through Best Buy, Future Shop, The Brick and London Drug stores for $199. Device owners also need to subscribe to the TiVo service, which has a monthly subscription price of $12.95, with discounts available on long-term contracts.

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2007/11/26/tivo-cp-2628551.jpg
The TiVo is going to compete with recording devices offered by Canadian television providers, including Rogers Communications Inc. and Bell Canada Inc.

The Series2 DT DVR can hold up to 80 hours of standard-definition programming, TiVo Inc. said in a press release, and can record one show while the viewer watches another. The device can also be hooked up to a broadband connection, which allows the viewer to remotely program it to record using a computer. The TiVo service also allows users to transfer their recordings onto a laptop, iPod or PlayStation Portable.

The device is optimized for cable viewing, with the multi-channel recording feature not available to satellite subscribers. The TiVo device being released in Canada also does not record high-definition television, although other models in the United States do record HD.

TiVo has been a big hit in the United States, replacing the VCR as the television-recording device of choice. Some Canadians have been able to use TiVos bought in the United States but have reported problems as it has not been officially supported by the manufacturer.

The company said the move into Canada is part of the company's overall expansion plan.

"TiVo's move into Canada represents a natural, important progression for our business as we continue to make sustained progress across international markets," said Joshua Danovitz, vice-president and general manager of international at TiVo.

The TiVo will compete with similar digital recording devices offered by television providers, including Rogers Communications Inc. and Bell Canada Inc., which sell for about $300. Devices offered by television providers, however, only work with that particular company's service.

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/11/26/tech-tivo.html

:banana: :banana:

[vid]

You have to subscribe? I thought you just bought the thing and that was it?

[SpongeG]

it does more than just record though i guess thats why?

it will also "tivo" other shows that it thinks you will like based on your habits

[HomeInMyShoes]

TiVo is in Canada? Wow, this technologically-advanced country is just full of surprises.

[Rusty van Reddick]

The point of those ads is to show that Dion is weak and not a good leader for his party, and by extension, the country. Since the majority of the country in polls agrees with this, I say the ads did the job, even if they didn't knock your socks off. If you want to vote for a weakling who will cook the golden goose that is driving the country's economy (Alberta), fill your boots.

The goose wasn't golden; it laid golden eggs.

Glad to see you live in Edmonton. Seriously.

[SpongeG]

TiVo is in Canada? Wow, this technologically-advanced country is just full of surprises.

the makers of TIVO probably found out they can charge double or triple in Canada since Canadians are so nice and gullable and will pay higher prices than the rest of the world ;)

[vid]

it does more than just record though i guess thats why?

it will also "tivo" other shows that it thinks you will like based on your habits

That like going to a grocery store and having the shelves throw at you food that you might enjoy based on your preferences! No thanks!