Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!ubc-cs!van-bc!sl
From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Canadian commercials on US radio and tv stations
Message-ID: <155@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 89 22:07:34 GMT
References: <89Jun19.002358edt.11715@neat.ai.toronto.edu> <2342@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1989Jun21.200421.9494@mdivax1.uucp> <2365@uwovax.uwo.ca> <422@moegate.UUCP>
Reply-To: sl@.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <422@moegate.UUCP> soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) writes:

>A better example of the kind of thing they're trying to pressure against is
>companies which do not sell to the US at all advertising on US border stations,
>a number of Toronto businesses advertise on WUTV from Grand Island, New York
>because it's cheap. US TV is less regulated than ours so they have an unfair 
>advantage over Canadian stations (WUTV is a good example of this, they have 
>no news, no community affairs programming, and loads of paid programming).

On KCTS from Bellingham it's almost rare to see add's that *ARE NOT*
directed to Canadian viewers.

KCTS runs old syndicated shows, lost of movies etc. 

There's even a fair amount of BC Government advertising (directed of course
to people in BC).

Bellingham is a small community about thirty miles south of the border with
a population of perhaps 50,000. It makes a lot of sense for KCTS to seek
advertising revenue for their much large audience in the lower mainland (say
about 2 million).


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