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Originally Posted by Trey Wingbat
When I frist read that CTV stated that Canadians aren't interested in watching the American ads during the Superbowl, I almost blew a gasket. I am a huge NFL fan, and I'll watch almost every regular season game, so watching the game itself is the most important to me during the Superbowl. But naturally, just like everyone else, I want to see the commercials themselves.
First of all (and I am steamed right now while typing this), CTV is saying that people don't want to watch the commercials, but then they state that if you do, you can watch them online anyways!!! So what is it CTV, either people want to watch them or they don't.
And who in their right mind wouldn't want to see the Superbowl commercials in glorious HD in real-time on a 60" or 70" HD TV, instead of viewing them online after the fact in a grainy compressed pixelated format on a 15" computer screen??????????????????
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Found an interesting news piece written during the CRTC hearings filed by CTV.
While CTV was arguing to the CRTC that:
"CTV also disagreed with Bell TV’s assertion that viewers who tune into the Super Bowl are primarily interested in the commercial messages. CTV added that those viewers who really want to see the U.S. commercials can download them from the Internet within minutes after their being broadcast during the game."
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2008/db2008-358.htm
and at the same time CTV was trying to run a program featuring the commercials from the game (the same as Globull used to do):
"One-of-a-kind TV commercials that are broadcast only in the United States during the Super Bowl are so enticing to Canadians that the CTV network attempted to buy the ads to broadcast as a separate TV show in Canada, apart from the championship football game.
The plan was revealed by CTVglobemedia Inc. chief executive Ivan Fecan at Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission hearings last week in Ottawa."
http://www.srgnet.com/pdf/FinancialPost(April202008).pdf
What a bunch of hypocrites!