In a Report on Television report CanWest CEO Leonard Asper is quoted as saying that neither the recession, nor debt is responsible for the current woes of broadcast television. ” Neither the bad economy nor debt taken on by broadcasters are to blame for profit declines at Canada’s major television networks, the head of CanWest…
Canwest’s Ship Starts to Sink
Yet another reason why a fully funded CBC is necessary: the CBC was originally created as a uniting force in a large and sparsely populated country. Even today there is very little that unites this country from coast to coast to coast and reminds us that we are not part of the United States. Some…
Canwest Cuts 560 Jobs
Media suffered it’s first real (non-Harper induced) blow of the current recession today. CanWest (the media organization that owns Global and the National Post amoung other things) cut 560 jobs across Canada today. “The 210 job cuts to Canwest’s broadcast wing come from a restructuring of the E! entertainment specialty stations, the company said. In…
Adbusters Ads
A few days ago I mentioned that Adbusters was suing CanWest Global and possibly the CBC for denying them the ability to run their counter advertisements. The fine folks at Art Threat have tracked down a few of the spots Adbusters wants to run. Personally I don’t see the problem, they seem like perfectly legitimate…
AdBusters Sues Canadian Broadcaster(s)
AdBusters is suing CanWest Global Communications and trying to add the CBC to the lawsuit. For those of you not quite up to speed, here’s the gist: After over a decade of having our consumer-awareness TV spots rejected by just about every major commercial broadcaster in North America (often with little or no explanation from…