Fox News North is SHUTTING DOWN!!

[applegrove]

Sun News Network to shut down permanently: sources

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sun-news-network-to-shut-down-permanently-sources-1.2955664

"SNIP...............


Sun News Network is about to sign off, permanently. CBC News has learned that the cable news television channel will shut down early tomorrow.

The network began broadcasting in 2011, launching a right-of-centre programming schedule.

It has had a constant challenge attracting viewers.

Its supporters blamed the CRTC for not giving it the same access enjoyed by news channels operated by CBC and CTV.


...............SNIP"

[shenmue]

1. Yay!

[Joe Shlabotnik]

2. lol!

I hope the Toronto Sun hangs around though, I read it almost everyday because the wingnuttery is hilarious.

[Cha]

3. HAHA!

[3catwoman3]

4. Congratulations! I wish Fox had trouble...

...attracting viewers in the US.

[Warpy]

5. Not only that, but Canada has some inconvenient laws

about disseminating false information on shows that are advertised as news.

They were stuck with using loaded language without lies and it just wasn't enough.

Good for Canada. I wish we could get truth in advertising enforced here and either stop the lies parading as news or force a name change to Fox Propaganda.

[COLGATE4]

6. It didn't have the same access as CBC and CTV because

Canada's Supreme Court ruled that it could not lie when giving "news" broadcasts. That was enough to spell the end of Fux North. Now if we only had the same thing here (or at least the Fairness Doctrine)...

[oldandhappy]

7. Thank you, Canada

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. "It has had a constant challenge attracting viewers."

That's one thing about the good old U.S. of A....

We produce the finest crop of assholes in the world.

[QuebecYank]

9. It had access to 5,000,000 households, but...

The CBC news said that only 8,000 households watched it. Common sense prevailed!!!

[polly7]

10. I was so glad to read this this morning!

Bye, bye .....

Was doing some reading:

Controversy and criticism[edit]

2010 licensing campaign[edit]

In his August 19, 2010 column in The Globe and Mail, Lawrence Martin claimed, citing "insiders", that CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein was under pressure from Prime Minister Stephen Harper to resign from the commission and take another government position, such as an ambassadorship, in order to facilitate Sun News getting its desired licence.[64] In a letter to The Globe and Mail, von Finckenstein "categorically" denied any government interference regarding Sun News or his tenure as CRTC chair.[65]

An online petition titled "Stop Fox News North" was established by the international activist organization Avaaz.org. The petition claimed that Prime Minister Harper sought to "push American-style hate media onto [Canadian] airwaves" with Sun News, and that the network would be "funded with money from our cable TV fees" (in opposition to the "mandatory access" request in Quebecor's second CRTC application); the petition also cited Martin's column as evidence that von Finckenstein was the "one man" standing in the way of Sun News getting a preferential licence.[38] Avaaz's petition garnered 30,000 signatures, 21,000 of which Avaaz delivered to the CRTC because they had individual appeals added.[39] Author Margaret Atwood was among the petition signatories, revealing she signed it not as a criticism of Sun News' possible right-wing agenda but as a criticism of Harper's style of government, particularly perceived attempts by his government to expedite Sun News' licence approval.[40]

Quebecor immediately dismissed the Avaaz petition against Sun News, alleging Avaaz to be an "American special interest group funded by U.S. billionaire George Soros".[66] (Avaaz has staff in Canada and several other countries, but was co-founded by MoveOn.org,[67] a U.S.-based political advocacy group to which Soros has contributed in the past;[68] however, it is not clear whether Soros has ever directly funded, or otherwise been directly involved with, Avaaz). Sun News supporters and noted employees piled on as well; Sun News Ottawa bureau chief David Akin, for one, accused Margaret Atwood on his Twitter account of attempting to squelch Quebecor's free speech rights by signing the petition,[40] while Ezra Levant, a future Sun News hire, wrote in a column that ran in the Sun newspapers, not only criticizing Soros' perceived direct support of Avaaz but brought up Soros' background as a survivor of Nazi-controlled Hungary ("false, defamatory and offensive statements", according to a spokesperson for Soros, who considered legal action against Sun Media before they apologized, retracted, and removed from its websites Levant's column; Atwood also considered a lawsuit).[69][70]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_News_Network

(bbm)

[Saviolo]

11. Good news!

But I'm sorry to hear about all of the job losses. A friend of mine (young liberal guy guy) will lose his job there, unfortunately. The loudmouth people in front of the cameras will all find another job at right wing rags like The Sun or even the National Post, but the people behind the cameras, many of whom were not right wing assholes will have to carve out a niche for themselves in a shrinking industry.

Though I must say Andrew Young (@SpartanVTyranny) tweeted a few good points today:

To "traditional media is dying," I reply: "Why?" Then I wait for an answer that doesn't implicate SNN.

Traditional media folks say, in unison, these job loses are a tragedy for an already decimated industry. But why is that industry hurting?

I'd love to hear an answer - e.g. trust, relevance, diversity of voices, lack of debate, ossification, etc. - that SNN wasn't exacerbating.

Blogger Neville Park (@neville_park) had harsher (but still true):

Yes, it's a loss for journalism. And that's great! There is way more journalism in the world than there ought to be.

I've said this over and over: many people—racialized people, Muslims, trans people, sex workers—only ever get screwed over by the media.

When you all start giving a fuck about the role you play in shaping the narrative, I'll start giving a fuck about your precious jobs.

[polly7]

12. Quote from Linden MacIntyre:

"The media, like politics, has always been about performance. But performance isn’t just about volume and projection, wigs and histrionics. The objective of performance isn’t only to be noticed. It’s to communicate. The problem viewers had with Ezra and most of Sun TV wasn’t the performance but the content. There was nothing there but style. And it was a style that was embarrassing to people who might have had some thoughtful things to say.

And maybe now that Sun is toast - they will."