Tuesday, November 17. 2009
Except .....
....for the Cost of supporting Government services at all levels the Cost of Living in this country seems somewhat predictable, even stable.
Tuesday, November 3. 2009
Get Ready, its not a Tax, its a new "user fee"
Today is the day the CRTC hears “input” to new fees, revenue share or something like that the TV stations and networks want from us, or the cable companies or somebody…?
Let’s look back for just a moment:
Pay TV comes in – Specialty Channels they’re called.
The rules – if we want to subscribe we pay a small monthly fee. Well too many channels, too much choice – not enough sales. Solution – charge a little bit more for the “small monthly fee” and allow the new specialty channels to sell some advertising minutes, not many just a few. Still not enough revenue – allow a few more minutes of advertising sales per hour.
Suddenly Good Morning. Networks and local stations are suffering as advertisers pull back faced with hundreds of channels, the net, paper, hell even images in washrooms and projected onto the sidewalls of buildings at night. Specialty Channels have a guaranteed income and ‘regular TV” suffers. They want “rev-share”.
What ensues is a comical series of Public Service commercials – each pointing out the “other sides” grotesquely large profits, all on the back of who? Oh their good friends and advocates – Joe Public. No, not MaCain’s Joe Public, our made in Canada Joe Public.
Lets 'Michael Moore' this for just a moment –
Specialty Channels – non competitive to regular network and local tv are introduced.
Specialty channels – start selling advertising minutes, and still get monthly “user fees”
Specialty Channels get to sell more minutes.
Shaw and Rogers come to a ‘détente” and split Canada into east and west zones. No more territorial fighting between them, no more price or feature wars. ((are you beginning to get it??))
Where was the CRTC then?
Where was the Competition Bureau then?
AND have you looked at which Networks, (the Tin Cuppers) actually own some of these Speciality Channels, that have dissected their revenue markets?
The stage for today’s battleground was set slowly, over the years. It should be no surprise about the Networks wanting revenue share…and it should be surprise that somehow we’re about to pay more….
Let’s look back for just a moment:
Pay TV comes in – Specialty Channels they’re called.
The rules – if we want to subscribe we pay a small monthly fee. Well too many channels, too much choice – not enough sales. Solution – charge a little bit more for the “small monthly fee” and allow the new specialty channels to sell some advertising minutes, not many just a few. Still not enough revenue – allow a few more minutes of advertising sales per hour.
Suddenly Good Morning. Networks and local stations are suffering as advertisers pull back faced with hundreds of channels, the net, paper, hell even images in washrooms and projected onto the sidewalls of buildings at night. Specialty Channels have a guaranteed income and ‘regular TV” suffers. They want “rev-share”.
What ensues is a comical series of Public Service commercials – each pointing out the “other sides” grotesquely large profits, all on the back of who? Oh their good friends and advocates – Joe Public. No, not MaCain’s Joe Public, our made in Canada Joe Public.
Lets 'Michael Moore' this for just a moment –
Specialty Channels – non competitive to regular network and local tv are introduced.
Specialty channels – start selling advertising minutes, and still get monthly “user fees”
Specialty Channels get to sell more minutes.
Shaw and Rogers come to a ‘détente” and split Canada into east and west zones. No more territorial fighting between them, no more price or feature wars. ((are you beginning to get it??))
Where was the CRTC then?
Where was the Competition Bureau then?
AND have you looked at which Networks, (the Tin Cuppers) actually own some of these Speciality Channels, that have dissected their revenue markets?
The stage for today’s battleground was set slowly, over the years. It should be no surprise about the Networks wanting revenue share…and it should be surprise that somehow we’re about to pay more….
"..we're going to keep working hard until we get this right,"
The “new” Minister of Health for the Province in responding to the mess of vaccine availability and distribution has said:
"I want Ontarians to know that we're working hard to protect you from H1N1, and we're going to keep working hard until we get this right,"
…..thanks for that Deb, your Government, still practicing. So that’s why you go through millions, oh no – billions.
Sounds a lot like her boss 'the Dalton' – “ this shows that Ontarians expect and deserve better”
Other famous Dalton lines of recent months include:
"Our responsibility as a government is to take responsibility," a chastened McGuinty told a news conference Wednesday after appointing Children and Youth Services Minister Deb Matthews to replace Health Minister David Caplan, who resigned over the fiasco.
McGuinty said it is now clear the government needs to "insinuate ourselves into the activities that are taking place far away from the front lines, because ultimately we're being held accountable for them."
That realization does not make him angry, the premier said.
"It makes me more determined to put into place the appropriate measures."
He did not specify what actions are coming but said "there will likely be some changes made in order to breathe life into the recommendations put forward by the auditor."
Although many of the problems occurred under Caplan's predecessor, McGuinty said former health minister George Smitherman, his deputy premier and minister of energy and infrastructure, would remain in cabinet because "the minister who is in place at that time, who's up to bat, accepts responsibility."
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There ya go Dalton, no look backs. Dalton’s Teflon world works more like a kids game of “tag – ooly olly en-free, you’re it!”
Dalton obviously believes resumes or CV’s are useless things in determining capacity or capability.
So it started out as a $200 million dollar mess. Escalated to $600 and now is reported at One Billion .
And we accept this? In fact we pay them get up in the morning and do this.
Conrad, Garth and Myron are the only ones to server time?
It don’t make sense to me.
Oh – yes, yes it does: they’re politicians we expect this, so we accept it.
"I want Ontarians to know that we're working hard to protect you from H1N1, and we're going to keep working hard until we get this right,"
…..thanks for that Deb, your Government, still practicing. So that’s why you go through millions, oh no – billions.
Sounds a lot like her boss 'the Dalton' – “ this shows that Ontarians expect and deserve better”
Other famous Dalton lines of recent months include:
"Our responsibility as a government is to take responsibility," a chastened McGuinty told a news conference Wednesday after appointing Children and Youth Services Minister Deb Matthews to replace Health Minister David Caplan, who resigned over the fiasco.
McGuinty said it is now clear the government needs to "insinuate ourselves into the activities that are taking place far away from the front lines, because ultimately we're being held accountable for them."
That realization does not make him angry, the premier said.
"It makes me more determined to put into place the appropriate measures."
He did not specify what actions are coming but said "there will likely be some changes made in order to breathe life into the recommendations put forward by the auditor."
Although many of the problems occurred under Caplan's predecessor, McGuinty said former health minister George Smitherman, his deputy premier and minister of energy and infrastructure, would remain in cabinet because "the minister who is in place at that time, who's up to bat, accepts responsibility."
______
There ya go Dalton, no look backs. Dalton’s Teflon world works more like a kids game of “tag – ooly olly en-free, you’re it!”
Dalton obviously believes resumes or CV’s are useless things in determining capacity or capability.
So it started out as a $200 million dollar mess. Escalated to $600 and now is reported at One Billion .
And we accept this? In fact we pay them get up in the morning and do this.
Conrad, Garth and Myron are the only ones to server time?
It don’t make sense to me.
Oh – yes, yes it does: they’re politicians we expect this, so we accept it.
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