MuchMusic Wants To Play Less Music Videos

Jacob Morris — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:58:47 +0000

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Sad news for music fans in Canada: MuchMusic wants to cut down the amount of music videos it plays even more, reports CHARTattack.

Last week CTV Limited, the company which owns MuchMusic, applied to change their current license with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). The proposed changes would affect the amount of music videos played on the station as well as remove French language programming and increase music-related feature films.

MuchMusic has gradually been playing less and less music videos and moving more towards other kinds of programming. Now they want to cut the number of music videos they play in half.

The proposed new licence would change the number of shows which consist of music related programming and music videos from filling 50 per cent of each broadcasting week to just 25 per cent.

CTV’s reasoning? The application to the CRTC reads, “Music videos no longer distinguish the service as they are readily available through other sources.” This isn’t great news for music enthusiasts if the application for the new license is accepted.

What’s your take? Do you still watch MuchMusic or do you check out “other sources” for music videos?

CRTC Approves Canadian Adult T.V. Channel

andPOP Staff — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:02:00 +0000

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A newly approved Alberta-based channel will give a new adulterated meaning to the phrase “Made in Canada.”

CBC is reporting that federal regulators have cleared a proposal by an Edmonton producer to launch Canada’s first adult television channel with an emphasis on Canadian content.

The channel, called Northern Peaks, would be a national, English-language pay television service. The CRTC granted the licence to Real Productions who are based in Sherwood Park, AB on Wednesday.

“A full 50 per cent of our content will be Canadian,” company president Shaun Donnelly told CBC. “Canadians love watching Canadian adult content,” he sad. “I think it’s the fantasy of it that it’s somebody you can actually run into in the grocery store.”

Donelly has plans to shoot and produce this Canadian adult content in the West, in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.

“Probably between Edmonton and Calgary we’d do about 40 per cent of our Canadian content. Vancouver has always been a busy city for us. Even cities like Regina and Saskatoon, we go in and do productions there,” said Donelly.

The channel would consist of triple-X movies, reality shows and other shows with a “mature” theme.

The launch date for the channel is mid-to late-2009.

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MuchMusic Wants To Play Less Music Videos

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