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Did the CRTC unwittingly set up both Bell and Rogers to FAIL?
By allowing ONE company to own multiple radio stations in the big markets and a plethora of TV outlets with little mass appeal...and by allowing them to rip people off with their dish and cable services...music could well be 'faced' before we hit 2020. [maybe it'll take a little longer but not much]
Of course the CRTC had NO WAY of knowing that these 2 monster companies would also spend themselves to the brink of bad possibilities. [glug]
The REAL question is...when they trip, stumble, tumble and fall...who will be able to step in and 'rescue' ALL of these various and sundry moneyless 'outlets'? Not me.
Will this lead to majority electro-media ownership by Americans in Canada? If so...anyone and everyone connected to the CRTC in terms of rendering decisions which led us to this gawd-awful precipice should, along with Bell and Rogers decision makers, be tarred and feathered and boiled in their own stinking juices.
Last edited by Old Codger (April 30, 2016 10:15 am)
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Re: Did the CRTC unwittingly set up both Bell and Rogers to FAIL?
Old Codger wrote:
gawd-awful Bell and Rogers decision makers, be tarred and feathered and boiled in their own stinking juices.
Unbridled eloquence Old Codger.....
Keep up the good work !!!
Last edited by unclefester (April 30, 2016 10:58 am)
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Re: Did the CRTC unwittingly set up both Bell and Rogers to FAIL?
Unintended consequences. The usual result of governmental intervention.
If, as old codger suggests, media ownership in Canada falls to foreign entities, successive Canadian governments have only themselves to blame for letting it all happen. Perhaps the daily ritual of the "Star Spangled Banner" playing at McDonalds in Port Hope will become common place.
And, as always seems to be the case, corporations do not have a "full enough" sensor in their collective brains. Seems the business model is to grow-until-you-collapse. Then, the consolidators/break-up artists/MBAs really come into their own. Knock it down and sell off the pieces. Oh, and let's not forget the bailout-promoters. And, around and around we go...where she stops, nobody knows.
Greed and stupidity. Ain't it something?