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So I was watching Fox News the other day (the night before I left on vacation to Colorado, about a week ago) and a certain Mr. O'Reilly mentioned something about Fox News being banned in Canada. I know there are a fair number of Canadians on this forum so I figure I can get the truth from the horse's mouth, so to speak. So is Fox News really banned in Canada? If so, what is the reasoning behind such a ban?

So I was watching Fox News the other day (the night before I left on vacation to Colorado, about a week ago) and a certain Mr. O'Reilly mentioned something about Fox News being banned in Canada. I know there are a fair number of Canadians on this forum so I figure I can get the truth from the horse's mouth, so to speak. So is Fox News really banned in Canada? If so, what is the reasoning behind such a ban?


I haven't heard a thing about it from my friends in Canada. I am not really sure if Fox News was ever there.

Well I'm not a Canadian, but yes except in extremely limited areas FoxNews is unavailible on Canadian cable. The rational is based upon a requirement that 35% of all programing on cable channels must be produced in Canada. There's a lot of conflict about this, and conspiracy theorists are welcome to insert their theories.

Yes.

Besides cable limitations as said above, Al-Jazeera is also banned in Canada, and to be unbiased, all propaganda channels have to be. Thus, FOX News is banned from Canada. That actually is an official reason.

Yes.

Al-Jazeera is also banned in Canada, and to be unbiased, all propaganda channels have to be. Thus, FOX News is banned from Canada.

is CNN?

Yes.

Besides cable limitations as said above, Al-Jazeera is also banned in Canada, and to be unbiased, all propaganda channels have to be. Thus, FOX News is banned from Canada. That actually is an official reason.

Actually Al-Jazeera has been granted access to Canadian cable. They have not begun broadcasting yet, but they have been given clearance.

Yes.

Besides cable limitations as said above, Al-Jazeera is also banned in Canada, and to be unbiased, all propaganda channels have to be. Thus, FOX News is banned from Canada. That actually is an official reason.
How is Fox News propaganda?

Actually Al-Jazeera has been granted access to Canadian cable. They have not begun broadcasting yet, but they have been given clearance.

Well, I see no reason that FOX News would be banned. My information must be dated.

Since Al Jazeera is not banned, it's likely neither is FOX News.

So I was watching Fox News the other day (the night before I left on vacation to Colorado, about a week ago) and a certain Mr. O'Reilly mentioned something about Fox News being banned in Canada. I know there are a fair number of Canadians on this forum so I figure I can get the truth from the horse's mouth, so to speak. So is Fox News really banned in Canada? If so, what is the reasoning behind such a ban?

Am pretty sure its not..

In fact, i was watching it in my hotel room not a month ago, so.. no.

*edit* it occurs to me my hotel room had like 700 channels, so was probably sattelite based, ignore that.

Al Jazeera has an exemption to the content laws because it is not in competition with any indigenous channel, saddly Canada has not produced a local Arab language propaganda channel.

How is Fox News propaganda?Their rather staggering lack of bias. Don't believe me? Check out this (http://mfile.akamai.com/11671/mov/cdn.moveon.org/media/2000-07-19_cameron_bush_pre_interview.mov) movie of a pre-interview with the president. The damn interviewer is best buddies with the President. Everyone knows FOX is uber conservative. They don't even try to have unbiased interviews.

EDIT: Fixed link. Guess plain html doesn't work... ::laughs::

is CNN?
CNNis not banned (if I remember correctly) because it produces (reproduces?) enough content in Canada for airing in Canada to meet the Canadian content requirement.

Fox News was granted clearance to broadcast in Canada as long as it adheres to our canadian content rules. The didn't want to comply so they have refused. CNN is broadcasted because it complied with the rules.

Al-Jazeera was granted license under strict limitation. It will not be allowed to broadcast executions, for example.

O'reilly was spinning the situation to make Canada look like a liberal censor that won't listen to other point of view. While the only one to blame for their denied acces is the network.

Their rather staggering lack of bias. Don't believe me? Check out this (http://mfile.akamai.com/11671/mov/cdn.moveon.org/media/2000-07-19_cameron_bush_pre_interview.mov) movie of a pre-interview with the president. The damn interviewer is best buddies with the President. Everyone knows FOX is uber conservative. They don't even try to have unbiased interviews.


THe L.A. Times is biased. So is CNN.
At least FOX News has news shows where they have 1 Conservative anchorman and 1 Liberal anchorman at the same desk saying their views.

Have you seen NBC do that? How about ABC? CNN? MSNBC?

The reason people call FOX biasly conservative is because its the only major media outlet that isnt liberal. And since every other station is liberal and that is accpeted as a norm, it makes FOX news look way convervative, when actually its closer to the middle then the others.

"On 24 November 2000, the Commission approved a Category 2 specialty television service to be known as Fox News Canada. The terms and conditions generally applicable to Category 2 services are set out in the public notice accompanying this and other decisions released today." (http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2000/DB2000-565.htm)

Fox News Canada was a partnership of Fox News (USA) and Global TV (Canada). Apparently Fox News has pulled out of this partnership.

"Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2004-45 Ottawa, 9 July 2004
Call for comments on proposals for the addition of Fox News and NFL Network to the lists of satellite services eligible for distribution on a digital basis" (http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Notices/2004/pb2004-45.htm)