This is a tough one for me. I have worked in TV and still have many friends that work in tv with a number of them at various stations in Calgary. Hell, with in the last year I have turned down jobs at two stations in Calgary. I don't want to see people lose jobs but tv cannot continue to run the way it has for the past 5 to 10 years.
I thought TV was a dying breed 10 years when I bailed on it. Mainly for the fact of the big nation wide corporations coming in and changing the way local stations ran. It got so far from a community station it wasn't remotely funny. Stations lost their identities and people stopped relating to them.
They have to offer something unique and rehashing news stories 10 times a day and the same old same old american dramas and sitcoms does not cut it. I watch most of my tv on the eastern American feeds and haven't seen a local station since the last time I watched Corner Gas, nearly two years...
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