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Real Rarity: 3 Cdn. TV Networks Airing The Same Show At The Same Time
It happens Sunday night at 8 PM, when The Canadian Screen Awards airs on CBC, CTV and Global, as well as Gem, Crave and StackTV. It's an unusual arrangement you don't see very often, if ever.
"The Canadian Screen Awards has never been a ratings powerhouse compared with the Oscars and the Emmys that draw far larger local TV audiences. So Canada’s film and TV awards has come up with a novel way to stem a chronic ratings decline amid virtually unlimited channel choice."
I get the logic, although I don't necessarily buy it - if you're not interested in the awards, having it on three separate networks still doesn't mean you'll tune in. But I suppose CTV and Global don't have a lot to lose. The so-called "regular season" is over and all both will be interrupting will be reruns of their normal Sunday primetime simulcasts.
Canadian Screen Awards to Be Broadcast by Multiple Networks to Revive Ratings Amid Industry Uncertainty
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I never watch American Award Shows so I have zero intention of watching a Canadian one.
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Speaking of the CSAs, I get the Saturday Star and their Star Week TV listings magazine last week had this as their cover story, and promoted it as airing last Wednesday, May 27th. The only reason I noticed it was that my wife wanted to DVR it, but it wasn’t showing up in the on-screen schedule.
Needless to say, Star Week issued an apology yesterday with the correct airdate. Pretty sloppy stuff!
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Speaking of the CSAs, I get the Saturday Star and their Star Week TV listings magazine last week had this as their cover story, and promoted it as airing last Wednesday, May 27th. The only reason I noticed it was that my wife wanted to DVR it, but it wasn’t showing up in the on-screen schedule.
Needless to say, Star Week issued an apology yesterday with the correct airdate. Pretty sloppy stuff!
I also noticed in the first page of the Star Week, where they give recommendations for programs and specials to watch on streaming services, that the last one on the page is a show coming to Hulu.
Hulu is not available in Canada, and can't legally be subscribed to here. So why list something we can't see? (Worse yet, TV Media has offices in both Ottawa and Saskatchewan, so there's no reason they can't get this right.)
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Damn. Somehow, I'll still manage to miss it.
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The only other time I can remember something like this happening was when a plethora of stations - both Canadian and American - all broadcast "Stand Up To Cancer," a fundraiser to fight the disease. But that was a charity and not a commercial show, which makes it different in my mind.
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Hulu is not available in Canada, and can't legally be subscribed to here. So why list something we can't see? (Worse yet, TV Media has offices in both Ottawa and Saskatchewan, so there's no reason they can't get this right.)
Not as a standalone service, but it is available through Disney+ here.
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Is that selected shows or the whole inventory? If the former, there's no guarantee the show they highlight will be there.
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Is that selected shows or the whole inventory? If the former, there's no guarantee the show they highlight will be there.
Most of it, except for the shows that were already licensed to Crave.
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I watched bits and pieces of the Canadian Screen Awards last night. Like many things Canadian, it was hard to watch at times, other times pretty good. I enjoyed the tribute to Catherine O'Hara, the icon award and speech from Mike Myers. Myers is an emotional guy and showed it last night. It was funny when he kept ad- libbing and it screwed up the prompter that had his formal remarks. Best speech went to Hazel Mae winner of the Gordon Sinclair broadcast journalism award...Mike Myers, Hazel Mae among recipients of special 2026 Canadian Screen Awards honours | CBC News
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I watched bits and pieces of the Canadian Screen Awards last night. Like many things Canadian, it was hard to watch at times, other times pretty good. I enjoyed the tribute to Catherine O'Hara, the icon award and speech from Mike Myers. Myers is an emotional guy and showed it last night. It was funny when he kept ad- libbing and it screwed up the prompter that had his formal remarks. Best speech went to Hazel Mae winner of the Gordon Sinclair broadcast journalism award...Mike Myers, Hazel Mae among recipients of special 2026 Canadian Screen Awards honours | CBC News
Hazel Mae does deserve some kind of award for putting up with all those stupid Gatorade bucket dumps over the years.
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Reminds me of Albert Brooks’ line to Holly Hunter in Broadcast News when he discusses Arnold Schwarzenegger’s appearance on all three network morning shows: “I think he’s live on two of them.”
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I never watch American Award Shows so I have zero intention of watching a Canadian one.
Ditto.
After all is said and done, more is usually said than done.