question about Canadian news broadcasts

[moof]

Does Canada have something like the old fairness or truth in broadcasting laws/guidelines like they used to have in America ?
In particular something that has something about being truthful ?

[LibertyorDeath]

1. We have the CRTC Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commiss

The CRTC is an independent agency responsible for regulating Canada's broadcasting and telecommunications systems. We report to Parliament through the Minister of Canadian Heritage.

more

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/welcome.htm

[moof]

2. Is there any ban or restriction concerning Fox news ?

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. Fox applied for and received a licence in 2000

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And I guess the hoopla is over the conditions of that agreement, which doesn't expire until 2007.

I don't suppose the BFEE would have anything to do with the effort to poison our airwaves with Faux.

Gawwd knows that CNN's bias is getting more evident daily, with the exception of a few like Lou Dobbs.

Text of the Licence and it's Conditions for Fox News Canada can be found here

For more details, info, and to search the site, click on the image below

[moof]

4. didn't know there was any hoopla going on ...

happened accross a post at another site where the person said that Fox news was banned in Canada and wondered if it had any basis in fact or if true had anything to do with Faux's inability to decern truth from fiction.

[LibertyorDeath]

5. Well it's a voluntary ban as Canadians we volunteer not to watch Faux

This may not be true for all parts of Canada (Alberta) but for the vast majority we like our News to be based on reality.

I'm sure their market share here is so pathetic that they will not publish the numbers.

and many of those that do tune in, tune in to laugh at it, not with it.

[Minstrel Boy]

6. This license is for a proposed blended service of Global-TV and Fox

which would be called "Fox News Canada." Fox News itself has been denied a license.

[Minstrel Boy]

7. Some more info about that I just dug up:

Four years ago the CRTC agreed to let Fox, in association with CanWest Global Communications, create a specialty service called Fox News Canada. This was supposed to be virtually an entirely new channel blending a "Canadian domestic perspective with an American-style news service," instead of a direct importation of the U.S. channel. In a letteraccompanying this week's CCTA application, Fox News Channel vice-president Douglas Murphy said his company no longer "intends to implement this service."
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040416.wxfox16/EmailBNStory/Entertainment/

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. NOT just proposed - I get it on my home cable in North Bay, Ontario

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It's in my listing as WUHF (channel 36)

http://www.tvguide.com/Listings/Index.asp?I=65887

http://www.foxrochester.com/rochester_ny/

[HEyHEY]

8. No, we don't have laws that protect the freedom of the press either

Especially in BC where I can be forced to give up my notes at a discovery instead of at a trial like the rest of the free world.

Also, maybe I'm being too stuck up...but fuax would never make it in Canada, Canadians wouldn't put up with it. Plastic sensationalism doesn't play well here...that's why Lightfoot is so popular.

[moof]

9. Thanks for the replies everyone.

It was hoped that maybe the Canadians had some sort of rules against airing lies or unsupported rumors as facts that would make fox news unable to function there.

Thanyaks again.