One of my dedicated readers, "DonaldAR", sent me this link to an article in Friday's Globe and Mail... hereThe article in question, written by Tabatha Southey as a 'Special to the Globe and Mail', discusses Sun News' business-attitude change in their request (to the CRTC) to be carried as part of 'basic cable'.
This lady is a comedian. I have not laughed like that, while reading a column, in quite a while. Ms. Southey recounts how the Sun News owners (who are they again?) complain that their channel is up in the high end of the tv dial; way up there with that channel HBO. Southey makes a crack about HBO targeting a demographic that can remember "three consecutive numbers".
There is one issue that writer Southey brings up in her piece which is inaccurate. She says that Sun News is a 'news' service that lacks real "remote" capability, an essential part of a news network. I think she is wrong here. Sun News does lots of remotes: Brian Lilley will live-link to Ezra Levant (in another part of the studio); Michael Coren will live-link to Brian Lilley (in another part of the studio); Ezra Levant will live-link to Michael Coren (in another part of the studio); Michael Coren will live-link to Ezra Levant (in another part of the studio); ....
