Why CANADA's SPACE channel rules!!!!!

[Kurt_eh]

There's only 2 days up for now, but take a look at the 1:00 timeslot...

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http://www.spacecast.com/listings.asp?date=1-5-2004
http://www.spacecast.com/listings.asp?date=1-6-2004


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Did I mention DAILY FARSCAPE?!?!?!?!?!

[uisceboo]

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Oh, hell why not....:blob: No wait, let me try that again....:bounce:

I haven't bounced in a while (blush).

[Kurt_eh]

And as soon as they're posted, keep checking out for:

http://www.spacecast.com/listings.asp?date=1-7-2004
http://www.spacecast.com/listings.asp?date=1-8-2004
http://www.spacecast.com/listings.asp?date=1-9-2004

[Stargate2077]

um...the Canadan SPACE Farscape marathon is on January 1, 2004. The specific episodes picked have not been decided yet.

[canadadoc]

Thanks Kurt - I hadn't noticed that as yet - although Mark A. had alluded to this somewhere in the Space forums.

Thanks Space - now I will have to come home for lunch every day.

c.

[Dominar of Action]

Wow, I'm not a sci fi fan, but that daily line up looks awesome ... like what a real sci fi channel should be about. If Space can afford to do it, why can't Sci Fi? <--- not intended to be snarky, just an honest question

[Kurt_eh]

It's because the Canadian dollar is doing so well :innocent: :D

[Nicola]

Yaaay, Space! This rocks!

I am going to have soooo much fun in January and February that the winter blahs are just not gonna happen!
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[Davesnothome]

The simple way for the US Scifi channel to duplicate this schedule? Blow up all its competition for their programming! Nuke Spike TV, FX, TNT, TBS, WGN, USA, The Oxygen Channel, Bravo and just about any other basic cable channel. Additionally bombing of all local affiliates who carry any of these programs, would be required to cut off that avenue of broadcasting these programs!

Also, locate foreign corporations to finance these productions and film them in your country to save costs. Then sell the rights to broadcast these shows in your country, exclusively to your network to monoplize programming, at a cost low enough to secure a profit!

You can't compare the Canadian television system to the way television works in the US. Other than both wouldn't survive without US production companies, who film many of their shows out side the US!

Dave

[Nicola]

Originally posted by Davesnothome
The simple way for the US Scifi channel to duplicate this schedule? Blow up all its competition for their programming! Nuke Spike TV, FX, TNT, TBS, WGN, USA, The Oxygen Channel, Bravo and just about any other basic cable channel. Additionally bombing of all local affiliates who carry any of these programs, would be required to cut off that avenue of broadcasting these programs!

Canadians actually get Spike TV, FX, TNT, TBS, WGN, USA, The Oxygen Channel, Bravo and a ton of others.

Space competes against them just like Sci Fi does.

[Scaper989]

Well since we're exporting all of these other networks, why can't
we just import Space?

[Davesnothome]

Originally posted by Nicola


Canadians actually get Spike TV, FX, TNT, TBS, WGN, USA, The Oxygen Channel, Bravo and a ton of others.

Space competes against them just like Sci Fi does. [/B]

I guess the only conclusion I can come up with, is the Canandian executives for these other basic cable channels can't be as smart as their US counterparts, in not competing for the Scifi programming that the American versions of Spike TV, FX, TNT, TBS, WGN, USA, The Oxygen Channel, Bravo and others, control in the US.

Dave

[Nicola]

Spike TV, TBS, WGN, KTLA, Bravo!, WB etc. etc., are all imported directly from the States.

We don't get Sci Fi though. So maybe that is why you guys don't get Space.

[Kurt_eh]

Methinks it has to do with rights.

These other nets may have "semi-exclusive" rights to the shows Stateside, so they're unavailable to Skiffy. But we still get them here.

Sort of like how Global has Season 6 of Stargate, so Space can't get it, but we can watch it on CBS (Spokane)...

[JA_Shipper]

Woohoo!!! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: I have been offline for a couple of days (I have bronchitis and I haven't slept for 3 days. Woohoo! :freak: ) so this is the first I've heard of the news.

Yay, Space!!! :applaud: :applaud: :notworthy:

Suse

[Davesnothome]

So as you've explained it, the following shows play on the following networks in Canada & the US:

Earth Final Conflict - Canada, Space / US, Scifi
Beastmaster-Canada, Space & WGN/ US, WGN
Forever Knight-Canada, Space/ US, Scifi
Outer Limits-Canada, Space/ US, Scifi
Stargate SG-1-Canada, Space/ US, Scifi
Relic Hunter-Canada, Space / US, Syndicated to local channels
Farscape- Canada, Space / US, Scifi
Star Trek TOS-Canada, Space / US, Scifi
Star Trek TNG-Canada, Space & Spike TV / US, Spike TV
Star Trek DS9-Canada, Space & in the future Spike TV / US, in the future Spike TV
Star Trek Voyager-Canada, Space & in the future Spike TV / US, in the future Spike TV
Angel-Canada, Space & TNT / US, TNT
Buffy- Canada, Space & FX / US, FX
Firefly-Canada, Space / US, no broadcast
Xena-Canada, Space & Oxygen Television / US, Oxygen television

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I wonder if there is any overlap. The same show, on at the same time, on two different networks in Canada? Also its odd, two shows filmed in Canada, with mostly Candaian casts, Andromeda & Mutant X, aren't on the schedule.

I live in a border town in the US and the Space channel isn't available. However, we get the CBC network. However it's sanitized of all US original programming. So we mostly get Canadian talk shows, Canadian documentaries, Canadian farm reports & Canadian travel shows on the CBC. If not for Hockey Night in Canada & the occasional "R' rated, Canadian made movie that slips through on late nights, the network would be one vast wasteland. Though, they did broadcast "The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne" on the CBC network, before it got to the Scifi channel!

Dave

[Kurt_eh]

Just a minor correction, in my area, we don't get FX or TNT, and SPACE has the rights for Stargate S1 - S5. Global has the S 6&7 rights...

One of the things that happens up here is that several of the Canadain networks have something called "simulcast rights."
(although SPACE does not do this).

What happens with "Simulcast" is kinda wierd. Let me use Survivwhore as an example.

US Distribution of Survivor: CBS
Canadian Distributor of Survivor: Global

The local Global affiliate will air Survivor in the same local time slot. So, for example, 8:00 pacific time, and 9:00 mountain time.

The "simulcast" rights give GLOBAL the exclusive right to air said programme at that timeslot in Canada. The only way we get American channels is via cable or sattelite service. So what the cable and sattelite companies do is replace the CBS feed with the GLOBAL feed. Commercials and everything! It's a big scam they've got with the Canadian Radio and Television Commission.

They do it for almost everything from Simpsons to the Superbowl. Which really sucks because the only reason to watch the superbowl is for those commercials! ;) :D :rolleyes:

[Bandana Girl]

I love Space