It may be another one that looks like a duck but doesn’t quack like a duck, so it may not be a duck.
On the north side of the Canadian / US border we have numerous television channels that carry the same names and logos as their original southern cousins.
That is exactly what they are, a cousin, or a distant relative.
For most of the Canadian viewers it doesn’t really matter, however for people that know the original channels it’s a shocker and feels like a fraud.
I hear that from the people that tasted the original channels by the “grey or black” market then converted to the “approved” and legal Canadian satellite systems just to learn that what they thought they are going to get, wasn’t so.
Channels like Bravo, Discovery, History, Food, OLN and many, many more are very different north and south of the border.
I think it would be fabulous to have more and more unique Canadian channels on our satellite systems, but they should have their own names and programming. Making deals with the channel from the U.S., just to have the right to use their name and logos, just to pretend to be them doesn’t look right to me.
Why is that? Why do they want to fool Canadian viewers? What about the CNN or Fox News? Will they have to add Canadian content to it as well? May be they already did?
Why can’t we have packages with true US channels and packages with true Canadian channel? It would be so much simple. I am realy frustrated with all the rules, regulations, rights, control and the way they are stering the whole ship. It is going to sink.
