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Bell Media to shut down E! Canada at year's end
I just got word over on the DigitalHome.ca that Bell will be shutting down the Canadian version of the E! channel at the end of the year.
Bell Media to shut down E! Canada at the end of the year
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E is still around?
Yes but it was called the Star Channel until 2010 or something? I could be wrong.
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Not a channel I watched, so don't care.
I hope they never shut down ctv comedy channel, ctv news channel, or tsn.
E, your boring content will not be missed.
I also hope corus doesn't shut down the following: Dtour, national geographic channel, cmt canada, deijaview, and history and h2.
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E is still around?
I remember the E of the canwest days.
Why they did that to great networks such as CHCH, I don't know.
Glad its gon and now chch has better content.
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Won't be missed. The audience was probably somewhere around zero./
After all is said and done, more is usually said than done.
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So in other words, "E" gets an F.
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At one point having a lot of specialty channels was the best way to get a larger about of programs on the air with another revenue stream.
But with streaming I think a lot of the smaller or less viewed channels will slowly away.
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It continually amazes me, though it probably shouldn't, how far some of the stations we get on cable in Canada have strayed from their original missions.
Take A&E. I used to love this U.S.-based network back in the day, with its great documentaries and music programming. What's on the channel tonight? Several hours of "Alaska State Troopers," followed by "Ozark Law" and "Southern Law." They're all cheaply made reality shows that don't hold a candle to its original premise.
E Canada was supposed to be a network dedicated to the latest goings-on in the Entertainment industry. On Wednesday night, its primetime line-up consists of two episodes of "The Rookie" and a movie no one ever really heard of called "Genie." No wonder it's being shut down.
MuchMusic has decidedly non-musical episodes of Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Futurama, and the Dark Side of Comedy. Fun shows, maybe, but you can't sing along to any of them. Talk about losing the point.
So did Bravo. I remember when it first started, it was a channel devoted to fine arts, like opera and ballet. Wednesday's line-up is packed with endless episodes of "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City." So uplifting.
And if you're a country music fan, be sure to tune into CMT - aka Country Music Television - where you can watch such relevant shows as "Wings," "The Office," and the sitcom dud "Man With A Plan." But not a note of country twang anywhere to be seen or heard.
So I'm not surprised E is being terminated. When you lose the point of your existence as a TV network, there's not much reason for anyone to watch. And apparently, no one is.
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It continually amazes me, though it probably shouldn't, how far some of the stations we get on cable in Canada have strayed from their original missions.
Take A&E. I used to love this U.S.-based network back in the day, with its great documentaries and music programming. What's on the channel tonight? Several hours of "Alaska State Troopers," followed by "Ozark Law" and "Southern Law." They're all cheaply made reality shows that don't hold a candle to its original premise.
E Canada was supposed to be a network dedicated to the latest goings-on in the Entertainment industry. On Wednesday night, its primetime line-up consists of two episodes of "The Rookie" and a movie no one ever really heard of called "Genie." No wonder it's being shut down.
MuchMusic has decidedly non-musical episodes of Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Futurama, and the Dark Side of Comedy. Fun shows, maybe, but you can't sing along to any of them. Talk about losing the point.
So did Bravo. I remember when it first started, it was a channel devoted to fine arts, like opera and ballet. Wednesday's line-up is packed with endless episodes of "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City." So uplifting.
And if you're a country music fan, be sure to tune into CMT - aka Country Music Television - where you can watch such relevant shows as "Wings," "The Office," and the sitcom dud "Man With A Plan." But not a note of country twang anywhere to be seen or heard.
So I'm not surprised E is being terminated. When you lose the point of your existence as a TV network, there's not much reason for anyone to watch. And apparently, no one is.
CMT airs Frasier. If you know the history of CMT and the plot of Frasier, you know that combination is ridiculous.
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It continually amazes me, though it probably shouldn't, how far some of the stations we get on cable in Canada have strayed from their original missions.
Take A&E. I used to love this U.S.-based network back in the day, with its great documentaries and music programming. What's on the channel tonight? Several hours of "Alaska State Troopers," followed by "Ozark Law" and "Southern Law." They're all cheaply made reality shows that don't hold a candle to its original premise.
E Canada was supposed to be a network dedicated to the latest goings-on in the Entertainment industry. On Wednesday night, its primetime line-up consists of two episodes of "The Rookie" and a movie no one ever really heard of called "Genie." No wonder it's being shut down.
MuchMusic has decidedly non-musical episodes of Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Futurama, and the Dark Side of Comedy. Fun shows, maybe, but you can't sing along to any of them. Talk about losing the point.
So did Bravo. I remember when it first started, it was a channel devoted to fine arts, like opera and ballet. Wednesday's line-up is packed with endless episodes of "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City." So uplifting.
And if you're a country music fan, be sure to tune into CMT - aka Country Music Television - where you can watch such relevant shows as "Wings," "The Office," and the sitcom dud "Man With A Plan." But not a note of country twang anywhere to be seen or heard.
So I'm not surprised E is being terminated. When you lose the point of your existence as a TV network, there's not much reason for anyone to watch. And apparently, no one is.CMT airs Frasier. If you know the history of CMT and the plot of Frasier, you know that combination is ridiculous.
Hi CRTC! May I please have a television broadcast licence? I promise to air anything
I want or desire to air. It will be content that is still CRTC friendly. There will be no porn.
Thanks in advance.
I also promise to call the channel something that has nothing do do with the content of the station.
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Great idea.
I will launch a channel called docs tv.
I will promiss to air documentaries and educational content, but instead, I will air travleogs, gameshows, movies, and political talkshows with the odd documentary.
I will compeet with other specialty channels while I'm at it.
Joke idea 2.
Because chin made huge promisses for 91.9 and is not living up, here's my joke idea to the crtc.
A new ethnic fm to serv toronto.
I will promiss to serve 19 ethnic groups in 19 different languages, but at launch, I will only serve the groups I like or that will by the most of my airtime.
Southasians, eastern europeans, greeks, filipinos, sri lankan tamils, and the caribbian communities.
I promissed to serve arabs and other groups, but only served them for 2 or 3 years.
And I turned my station into a bollywood and ethnic music jukebox with imported programming ither from the home country or from an ethnic station in another city.
But on a serious note, Why do these broadcasters make huge promisses, get aprouved, but at launch, they don't live up to there service plans and use there stations or tv channels as wastelands and jukeboxes?
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Take A&E. I used to love this U.S.-based network back in the day, with its great documentaries and music programming. What's on the channel tonight? Several hours of "Alaska State Troopers," followed by "Ozark Law" and "Southern Law." They're all cheaply made reality shows that don't hold a candle to its original premise.
A&E went through a long period where it was nicknamed the Armaments & Explosions channel because of the wall-to-wall war documentaries it was airing - instead of the arts and culture programming it originally aired.
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The late, great Hal Douglas was the imaging voice of A&E. I miss that voice more than I miss A&E's original programming.
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It continually amazes me, though it probably shouldn't, how far some of the stations we get on cable in Canada have strayed from their original missions.
Take A&E. I used to love this U.S.-based network back in the day, with its great documentaries and music programming. What's on the channel tonight? Several hours of "Alaska State Troopers," followed by "Ozark Law" and "Southern Law." They're all cheaply made reality shows that don't hold a candle to its original premise.
E Canada was supposed to be a network dedicated to the latest goings-on in the Entertainment industry. On Wednesday night, its primetime line-up consists of two episodes of "The Rookie" and a movie no one ever really heard of called "Genie." No wonder it's being shut down.
MuchMusic has decidedly non-musical episodes of Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Futurama, and the Dark Side of Comedy. Fun shows, maybe, but you can't sing along to any of them. Talk about losing the point.
So did Bravo. I remember when it first started, it was a channel devoted to fine arts, like opera and ballet. Wednesday's line-up is packed with endless episodes of "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City." So uplifting.
And if you're a country music fan, be sure to tune into CMT - aka Country Music Television - where you can watch such relevant shows as "Wings," "The Office," and the sitcom dud "Man With A Plan." But not a note of country twang anywhere to be seen or heard.
So I'm not surprised E is being terminated. When you lose the point of your existence as a TV network, there's not much reason for anyone to watch. And apparently, no one is.
And then look what Stingray did. They launched their own Country music channel 2 years after CMT axed Country music video programming from the channel. I don't see CMT surviving much longer in the Canadian market. They should rebrand the channel or shut it down. I find A&E airing stuff you see on the internet like Customer Wars, Road Wars, etc.
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