Netflix, an online streaming service for movies and television shows which is often touted as being more convenient than piracy, has finally launched in Canada. It can be accessed by anyone with the exception of those who made the unfortunate choice of purchasing an Xbox360.
Posted in Film, Home Video, News, Television
Tagged Bell, Corporate consolidation, getting screwed over, Netflix, Online streaming, Rogers
BCE Inc. has stated its intentions to purchase major Canadian commercial broadcaster CTV for $5.3 billion. Combined with Shaw’s bid to purchase CanWest Global in its entirety and Rogers’ recent acquisition of CityTV stations across the country, this news definitively ensures the destruction of local television in Canada forever.
Posted in News, Policy, Television
Tagged Bell, Corporate consolidation, CTV, local television, the world is ending
