CANADA’S broadcasting regulator takes its job seriously. One of its tasks is fending off American cultural domination by enforcing a requirement that radio stations and television channels air a minimum proportion of Canadian content. That rule apparently extends to pornography. On March 5th the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) advised three adult-entertainment channels that it suspected they were not meeting the minimum requirement of 35% Canadian content, nor providing subtitles for the required 90% of their programmes.Commentators were quick to suggest ways that AOV Adult Movie Channel, AOV XXX Action Clips and AOV Maleflixxx could remedy the situation. The printable suggestions range from filming productions in Dildo, Newfoundland or Climax, Saskatchewan, to changing the names of popular Canadian shows such as “The Friendly Giant” and “Hockey Night in Canada” to “The Overly Friendly Giant” and “Hickey Night in Canada”. More than a few pointed to the potential for basing new programmes on the Group of Seven, Canadian landscape artists active in the 1920s and 1930s, or on the quip by the late author...
via The Economist: The Americas http://ift.tt/O72Z8k
No comments:
Post a Comment