Talk:Television in Canada

Alberta Airtimes

The article states that Alberta receives its American TV from the Pacific Time Zone, which is true -- probably still Spokane, Washington. However, a Pacific Time Zone prime time schedule from 8PM-11PM is actually 9PM-12M Mountain time -- an hour later. So something is wrong with the logic. Are you saying that Alberta maximizes its simultaneous substitution opportunities by running its prime time schedule from 8p-11p Mountain time, when its American counterparts air prime time from 9p-12m Mountain Time? It doesn't make intuitive sense, so I suspect the Alberta arrangement is a lot more complex. Could someone who knows update and correct? Goeverywhere 16:32, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Updated scheduling section

I'm not sure when the Scheduling section was written. Must have been about 1995 as it suggested Canadian broadcasts begin at 6 AM. That hasn't been the case for years for most channels, including CBC, which air 24 hours a day. 68.146.81.123 (talk) 02:22, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Impossible the section was written in 1995, as Wikipedia didn't begin till the early 2000s. Jimj wpg (talk) 21:34, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Article Needs Cleanup

This article looks like an unreadable mass of text, large blocks that deter the eyes from seeking whatever info is in it. If no one else, author included, breaks the paragraphs down to manageable size, I may do that myself. 70.27.140.149 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:41, 7 December 2010 (UTC).

Yea, this article seems to have a lot of problems. If you feel like fixing it do it! If everyone that looks at a page and is interested in it does a little to work on it, it'll make a huge improvement. AdventurousSquirrel (talk) 09:31, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

References

Hello There,

I've noticed that in this Television In Canada article it states that CTV is the country's most-watch news network but there inst a reference to prove this. Is it possible to have this removed? I have included the paragraph below.

The first tier of national private networks include CTV, Global, and TVA. CTV, the country's most-watched network, and Global are English networks, which generally split the most popular foreign programs between them, with significant local news programming in most areas but limited amounts of domestic content in primetime. Both are available over-the-air in most regions. TVA, a French-language network available throughout Quebec over-the-air and elsewhere via cable and satellite, airs mostly programming made in Quebec, to great success in that province; see also Quebec television. CTV, Global and TVA are owned by Bell Canada Enterprises through its Bell Media division, Shaw Communications and Quebecor Media respectively.

Thank you, Samanthajayne77 (talk) 14:52, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

removing POV tag with no active discussion per Template:POV

I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:

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Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 12:16, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Native american

Are there native american languages`s television in Canada?--Kaiyr (talk) 08:45, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

We have APTN (Aboriginal People's Television Network) Jimj wpg (talk) 21:37, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Unsourced fact about "9 of 10 Canadian households owned a television set by the end of the 1950s

In this edit from 2009, the user Taniar made a large edit to this page. It included the text "Even though those sets were very expensive at the time, the large majority (9 of 10) of Canadian households owned a television set by the end of the 1950s." and cited the source Cole, Stephen. "Here's Looking At Us: Celebrating Fifty Years of CBC–TV". Canada: The Canadian Publishers, 2002, 6.

Unfortunately, when you visit that source via the Internet Archive, you can see that this fact is not backed-up by anything written on page 6 of the source. Can anyone work out where this fact may have come from? Perhaps from the source Michel Filion source that was added to the reference list at the same time? (I don't have access to that Filion reference, as it is behind a paywall).

I just used the Citation Needed tag to flag that 'fact' as needing a source. Stuart mcmillen (talk) 05:56, 8 February 2024 (UTC)