An advocacy group that wants the Candian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to ban Fox News says the network’s “abusive content” extends beyond its divisive personalities such as recently fired host Tucker Carlson. Fox News should be banned from Canadian airwaves because it has “repeatedly and regularly” violated broadcasting standards with content that subjects many groups to hate, Egale Canada is arguing in its formal submission to Canada’s broadcasting regulator.
The NFL has lost a Canadian appeals court battle to stop the CTV network from being forced to air United States Super Bowl telecast commercials.
Canada’s federal broadcast regulator is holding hearings examining the current state and future viability of local TV programming, with an emphasis on the health of local TV stations and local news programming. In a study submitted prior to the hearing, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting warned that nearly half of Canada’s local TV stations could go off the air by 2020 at a cost of nearly 1,000 jobs unless they receive money to boost local programming.
