Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!jtsv16!brian
From: brian@jtsv16.UUCP (Brian A. Jarvis)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Canadian commercials on US radio and tv stations
Message-ID: <558@jtsv16.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 89 12:12:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: jtsv16.558
References: <89Jun19.002358edt.11715@neat.ai.toronto.edu> <2342@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1989Jun21.200421.9494@mdivax1.uucp> <2365@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Reply-To: brian@jtsv16.jts.com (Brian A. Jarvis)
Organization: JTS Computer Systems Ltd., Toronto
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In article <2365@uwovax.uwo.ca> miller@uwovax.uwo.ca (Greg Miller) writes:
>In article <1989Jun21.200421.9494@mdivax1.uucp>, theriaul@mdivax1.uucp (Roger
>Theriault) writes: 
>
>> Revenue Canada keeps Molsons (for example) from  placing ads in US magazines
>                 ^^^^^
>> DIRECTED AT CANADIANS or in US border TV stations
>
>And the municipalities (well maybe just Metropolitan Toronto)
>and provincial governments and federal governments all advertize on US 
>radio and TV stations.
>               Greg Miller

A little while ago, I was watching television when I noticed an advertisement
for the Canadian Arthritis Society, followed by an advertisement for the
Canadian Hemophiliacs Society and then an AIDS prevention public service
announcement sponsered by the Ontario Ministry of Health.  Then I clued
in; this was *NOT* the CBC I was watching; it was CNN.

Since that time, I've taken particular note of distinctly Canadian advertising
on this and other US networks.  Some of it is made up of tourist ads obviously
aimed at Americans planning their vacation (and very good ads too, I thought,
from Ontario, B.C. and the Federal Government), but a surprising number were
public service messages aimed directly at the Canadian public.  Interesting.

Just another piece of Cantrivia...

Brian A. Jarvis

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