Comments on: 299 http://www.urbanretrospect.com/2007/06/18/299-queen-street/ Fri, 29 May 2009 03:24:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Steve M http://www.urbanretrospect.com/2007/06/18/299-queen-street/#comment-242 Steve M Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:42:29 +0000 http://www.urbanretrospect.com/2007/06/18/299-queen-street-begins-a-new-era/#comment-242 I don't think Rogers is moving City TV because they want to, rather because CTV is hanging on to the specialty channels and the building. The big question is what is City TV without being able to leverage content via is specialty channels. For example, if City continues to make Fashion Television (FT) will that content still be available for the Fashion TV channel? When they buy something like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and play it on the AChannel (also part of the deal with City) will it still be available for Space (not likely). Can Space afford to buy and commission rich content without having the free tv window like City or A Channel to back it up? This doesn't even scratch the surface of what happens to CP24. It is thoroughly integrated with City TV news and I don't think CTV will want more competition with CTV News Net. I don't think Toronto (and Canada) appreciates how bad this is. City TV is an institution we have long taken for granted. I don’t think Rogers is moving City TV because they want to, rather because CTV is hanging on to the specialty channels and the building.

The big question is what is City TV without being able to leverage content via is specialty channels. For example, if City continues to make Fashion Television (FT) will that content still be available for the Fashion TV channel?

When they buy something like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and play it on the AChannel (also part of the deal with City) will it still be available for Space (not likely). Can Space afford to buy and commission rich content without having the free tv window like City or A Channel to back it up?

This doesn’t even scratch the surface of what happens to CP24. It is thoroughly integrated with City TV news and I don’t think CTV will want more competition with CTV News Net.

I don’t think Toronto (and Canada) appreciates how bad this is. City TV is an institution we have long taken for granted.

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