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as mentioned in this thread.
So, Sun TV wanted to start a cable news channel. The idea seems to have started when Stephen Harper, Kory Teneycke (his communications director), Roger Ailes (president of Fox News, political adviser to many Repulicans, media consultant to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, and the man who hired George Bush's first cousin John Ellis to call the election for George Bush in 2000 before the votes had been counted) and Rupert Murdoch had a private lunch together in New York.
Sun TV is owned by Quebecor who picked the aforementioned communications director (aka spin doctor) Kory Teneycke to head the channel.
The application went to the CRTC (Canadian Radio and Television Council) for regulatory approval and they were asking for a "must carry" license which would force all Canadian cable companies to carry the channel and pay for it (because, Sun TV claims, they would not be able to compete in an open market).
There was a huge public outcry. The CRTC denied the license. Kory Teneycke quit the channel and Quebecor put in Luc Lavoie who was the media director for former Conservative Prime Minister (who signed us up for NAFTA) Brian Mulroney - the same Brian Mulroney who is on the board of Quebecor.
Since the CRTC defeat it seems that there are political machinations afoot to change the makeup of the board. The current chair is Konrad von Finckenstein who holds the chair until 2012 but suddenly he is getting offers from the government of judgeships and ambassadorships. The vice-chair Michel Arpin is leaving soon and his request to stay on has not been granted. One of the names being floated as a replacement on the board is Luc Lavoie - YES, THAT Luc Lavoie (see above).
So, Sun TV wanted to start a cable news channel. The idea seems to have started when Stephen Harper, Kory Teneycke (his communications director), Roger Ailes (president of Fox News, political adviser to many Repulicans, media consultant to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, and the man who hired George Bush's first cousin John Ellis to call the election for George Bush in 2000 before the votes had been counted) and Rupert Murdoch had a private lunch together in New York.
Sun TV is owned by Quebecor who picked the aforementioned communications director (aka spin doctor) Kory Teneycke to head the channel.
The application went to the CRTC (Canadian Radio and Television Council) for regulatory approval and they were asking for a "must carry" license which would force all Canadian cable companies to carry the channel and pay for it (because, Sun TV claims, they would not be able to compete in an open market).
There was a huge public outcry. The CRTC denied the license. Kory Teneycke quit the channel and Quebecor put in Luc Lavoie who was the media director for former Conservative Prime Minister (who signed us up for NAFTA) Brian Mulroney - the same Brian Mulroney who is on the board of Quebecor.
Since the CRTC defeat it seems that there are political machinations afoot to change the makeup of the board. The current chair is Konrad von Finckenstein who holds the chair until 2012 but suddenly he is getting offers from the government of judgeships and ambassadorships. The vice-chair Michel Arpin is leaving soon and his request to stay on has not been granted. One of the names being floated as a replacement on the board is Luc Lavoie - YES, THAT Luc Lavoie (see above).