nucklehead Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Sun News Network is about to sign off, permanently. CBC News has learned that the cable news television channel will shut down early Friday. The network began broadcasting in April 2011, launching a right-of-centre programming schedule, but it has had a constant challenge attracting viewers. Its supporters blamed the CRTC for not giving it the same access enjoyed by news channels operated by CBC and CTV. The federal broadcast regulator denied Sun News a guaranteed spot on basic cable TV packages in August 2013. Data released as part of that application showed that while the network was available to 5.1 million households, it was only attracting, on average, 8,000 viewers at any given time. That number was far lower than what well-established all-news networks operated by CTV and CBC were reporting. CBC, for example, said it had eight times as many viewers as Sun News. When Quebecor launched the station, media pundits quickly dubbed it "Fox News North." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2SKATES1STICK Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Fox News North Fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drummer4now Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I have been waiting for this day for too long.. Eat Sh*t Ezra.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronalds.Kenins41 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Am I the only one that has never heard of this new company? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nucklehead Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 Am I the only one that has never heard of this new company? I would have guess "yes". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossi Vaananen Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Suck it conservatives... All 8,000 of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortorella's Rant Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Am I the only one that has never heard of this new company? I haven't. Took less than a minute to understand why it's "Fox News" of the North, as it was put. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lockout Casualty Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Good riddance to a poop stain on journalism everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianLoonie Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 People still watch TV news channels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugor Hill Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Ironically, Sun News going down is a win for free speech, democracy and the news media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhippy Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Ironically, Sun News going down is a win for free speech, democracy and the news media.points to Hugor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuktravella Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 is this a east coast channel ive never even heard of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLindenIsGod Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I only ever saw their weird often confusing headlines on my FB news feed, and would go on them to kill time and get people to keyboard rage over BS stories they took as gospel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancaster Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Funny how if a channel or source of information that's politically different from you is shut down, censored or whatever... somehow some people are happy with the now less diverse opinions. Get rid of all dissenting opinions! Democracy FTW, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lockout Casualty Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Funny how if a channel or source of information that's politically different from you is shut down, censored or whatever... somehow some people are happy with the now less diverse opinions. Get rid of all dissenting opinions! Democracy FTW, right? Hilarious, plus one. Would read again. Divisive opinion... right. That's what SNN was. Divisive opinion. Fair and balanced, too, right? Ezra was like a shining beacon of journalistic integrity, wasn't he. Seriously, stop playing the victim card conservative. If Rabble.ca disappeared, you'd be so broken up about less diverse media, right? Excuse me while I roll around laughing at the thought. Sorry, guess it'll be so one sided with all the leftist outlets that endorsed the CPC last election, what will you our poor, unrepresented conservatives do?! Oh woe is right wing. SNN went out because even conservatives didn't want to waste their time watching that ridiculous right wing spin. Mandatory coverage was just a hilariously ironic cherry on top. What an affront to democracy. I'd worry more about our PMO being undemocratic than SNN going out of business, but you know, priorities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inane Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Was it even available here? Never saw it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimberWolf Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 The only thing too bad is that this will not be a trend for opinion news. Con/Lib whatever news that doesn't tell the news but instead caters to peoples bias needs to die.Fox/MSNBC the biggest problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I think that's the whole problem here. Information and news should be reported objectively, free of bias. Reporters should be sticking to facts. Reporters also need to re-learn how to investigate a story properly. Too often they just run a story and jump onto the next thing. It used to be when there was a story, they'd stick with it and investigate it completely. Then move on. Reporters seem to be lazy now, they just go with the press release, and walk away. They are too afraid to ask the hard questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimberWolf Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I think that's the whole problem here. Information and news should be reported objectively, free of bias. Reporters should be sticking to facts. Reporters also need to re-learn how to investigate a story properly. Too often they just run a story and jump onto the next thing. It used to be when there was a story, they'd stick with it and investigate it completely. Then move on. Reporters seem to be lazy now, they just go with the press release, and walk away. They are too afraid to ask the hard questions.This is the least of what we should expect from real journalism.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B_jJEV25g4Never be this good again since they became profit centers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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