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    I have shaw cable, and was lucky enough to have a untouched ABC feed. I recorded the CTV feed at home .. and Jesus, how can they be allowed to do that? Its like watching an HD feed for ABC then a VHS tape thats 25 years old for CTV feed ... so horrendous.

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    Hi there! I have watched all of your videos on youtube, and I must say, It was and still is an embarrassment to try and watch a Canadian TV station return to the program right on the nose. As I am only 17, I have not seen or watched any older NBA or NFL, my most hated thing right now, is when TSN shows a ESPN program. Such as PTI. PTI has a segment called "A Good 5 Minutes!" And half the time, when TSN eventually returns to the program after all the CFL crap and MLS bull, and also, I might add, the stupid XXX on TSN montage when they run out of commercials or whatever, then join in super super late. On one occasion actually, just last week, TSN joined in at the 4:32 mark of "A good five minutes" How are they allowed to do this? I know it really isn't a simsub, but it really feels like one.

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    Hey - I am a big NBA VHS collector, particularly MJ-era...would love to chat more - please drop me an e-mail: rairjordan at gmail dot com - thanks!

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    Hey, thanks for the message.

    I can remember as far back when I was a kid with the Smurfs being interrupted on NBC by Global in the 80's. Obviously I didn't understand the industry and the technical side of things back then when I was 5 years old like I do now (especially now that I am an Engineer), but I still remember the NBC Roller Coster and Bill Cosby and the rest of the Cosby family doing promos and hosting entire segments for Saturday morning cartoons, and it being cut out whenever Global interrupted NBC. I still have the Smurfs on tape and I have started to convert them over to digital format. Everytime I see a stupid Global logo, I have to replace it with a glorious NBC Peacock by overlaying the original video layer.

    Fast forward to the 90's, and CrapTV used to interrupt the greatest telecast ever - the NBA on NBC. Everything was superb about the NBA on NBC - from the graphics, to the announcers, to the music, to the key matchups. Nothing will ever beat MJ going up against the Knicks at the Garden with Marv Albert calling the game on NBC. But when CTV did interrupt, it was painful to watch. Everything was butchered. NBA on NBC promos - which were awesome themselves, were cut out, and often times CTV would have a useless announcer in between commercials come on a spew out incorrect stats and then throw it back to NBC in mid-play. The worst was the stupid Canadian Tire updates during the 1996 NBA Finals where CrapTV would actually reduce the screen size and show baseball scores. It would drive me insane. I've had to do a lot of editing during the conversion over to digital for all my old Bulls games whenever CrapTV hijacked the feed - including inserting NBA on NBC promos from other games! I'll never forgive them for interrupting the NBA on NBC and ruining some great memories of that telecast. This is where my pure hatred for simsubbing comes from - from the interruption of the NBA on NBC. This is when I learned more about the broadcasting industry. I actually didn't watch the 2002 NBA Finals because I couldn't stand CrapTV's interruptions anymore.

    Now today these simsub debacles continue, and more people are learning about the broadcasting state of affairs in Canada through various online forums like this one. The worst part is, Global and CTV are just keeping the money from simsubbing and not re-investing in quality Canadian programs that attract viewers, or instead, they do things like outbid the CBC for the rights to the Hockey Night in Canada theme song, or buy other media companies like Alliance Atlantis. This is not what the rule was put in place for!!!

    The NFL on CBS for me is another great sports telecast - almost to the level of the NBA on NBC - and now CrapTV is once again ruining it. Not to mention all the other shows that Globull and CrapTV ruin on a daily basis. Hopefully my DVD will be an eye opener to all 17 different organizations I sent it to, and hopefully things will change, but until then, all we can do is complain. The best thing in my opinion is to go after the advertisers and tell them that you will no longer support them - that will hit CTV and Global the hardest.

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    Hey man, just wanted to tell you I love your YouTube video...you have summed up everything that is wrong with the Canadian Broadcast system and our entertainment industry for that matter. Outstanding work!

    Fortunately, I canceled my cable last fall. That's about the only way to deal with it. If you're an American Football fan in Canada, you're pretty much ****ed. (I'm a hockey guy, but nevertheless...don't get me started on blacked out games!).

    It should be against the law for cable/satellite providers to advertise all the "US networks" that you will receive with their services, because you really only get the watered-down Can-American version...

    My biggest hate was when CTV would cut in over "Lost" or "American Idol" and the sound would immediately drop from clean crisp 5.1 to a very lackluster mono-sounding 2.0 feed, and the picture would easily lose about half it's quality. Unacceptable, and anyone who says it otherwise (the CRTC for one) should be arrested and charged with fraud.

    And you're bang on about how we lose the American promos and ads...I used to watch "24" on Global, it was absolutely lacking without the Don Lafontaine (R.I.P.) promos every week.

    No, you're best bet in Canada is to wait for the show to air, then buy/rent the DVD/Blu-ray...or if the Canadian iTunes Store actually had anything good in its lineup (but that issue needs another YouTube video itself!).

    Well, and all this **** about how Canadian advertisers would lose out if their ads aren’t forced down our throat during American programs...this comes back to the entire fundamental problem of Canada failing to make it’s own shows (outside of Corner Gas and Little Mosque, if that’s your thing). Make some good Canadian shows, and we’ll watch them, and they can then put their lousy over-acted Canadian ads in wherever they like! I don't care where my entertainment comes from...if it happens to be Canadian, so much the better, but it's irrelevant if the presentation is no good.

    These cable providers know nothing about entertainment and how to provide it, but it’s the entire industry that needs a dramatic overhaul in this country. Thanks for the vid, keep up the good work! I’m gonna show this to as many people as I can.
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